Resident Evil 4 coming to iPhone in July

by Justin McElroy { Jul 15th 2009 at 12:35PM }

We know, we were shocked too! Well, maybe not shocked, considering that Resident Evil 4 popped up on the Japanese App Store before it was pulled right down. The game will return (legitimately this time) to Japan by month's end.

If you're nowhere near the Land of the Rising Sun, fear not! Capcom says the game will roll out to the rest of the world soon after.

Tags: capcom, resident-evil, resident-evil-4

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Heimbachae @ Jul 15th 2009 12:41PM

what're ya buyin!?

Damian @ Jul 15th 2009 12:42PM

Resident Evil 4 for iPhone.

aReEeNeN @ Jul 15th 2009 12:48PM

Ahhh...I'll buy it at a high price!

Damian @ Jul 15th 2009 12:56PM

Hopefully not.

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jul 15th 2009 12:56PM

iPhone App store got a lot of good things on sale, stranger.

Come back any time.

Captain Planet @ Jul 15th 2009 1:07PM

Your princess is in another castle!

Oh sorry, wrong game!

Damian @ Jul 15th 2009 1:20PM

NO says the man in Washington SHIT wrong game again.

Metoo @ Jul 15th 2009 1:45PM

What're ya sellin'?

343 Guilty Fart @ Jul 15th 2009 1:59PM

LEON! HEEEELLLLP!!!

Rodrigo @ Jul 15th 2009 4:48PM

@343 Guilty Fart:

Dont worry Ashley! I´m coming for ya...
\o/

Chibi Chaingun - blackhivemedia.com @ Jul 15th 2009 5:04PM

Might pick it up. Looks decent at least...

Damian @ Jul 15th 2009 12:45PM

Yeah definitely not for games we play now, they will need to develop games that fit with the iphone controls,new type of games.

Engerz @ Jul 15th 2009 12:46PM

Hope it at least has the regenerators :3

Joe G @ Jul 15th 2009 12:49PM

I have developer friends who keep telling me and telling me and freakin telling me how the iphone is revolutionizing gaming, yada yada... I CANT LISTEN TO IT ANYMORE!!!

DBuck_Eye @ Jul 15th 2009 12:48PM

I wonder why they went with Resi 4 instead of Resi 5...

aReEeNeN @ Jul 15th 2009 12:51PM

Probably because they could come closer to the graphical fidelity of RE4 much easier than RE5. Also, I've always been under the impression that--while RE5 was a great game and well received--RE4 seems to be the more popular game, although part of that could just be that RE4 has been given more time to sink in.

DBuck_Eye @ Jul 15th 2009 1:05PM

.../sarcasm...

aReEeNeN @ Jul 15th 2009 1:21PM

Actually...I was being serious. I PERSONALLY don't know anyone who liked RE5 better than RE4, but that is just from my personal experience. RE5 was an excellent game, but RE4 was one of the absolute pinnacle games of last generation, so it's no dig at RE5 if it wasn't quite the same achievement as RE4.

DBuck_Eye @ Jul 15th 2009 1:37PM

No, I was being sarcastic. I have pretty much the same view of the two games as you do.

Flankenstein @ Jul 15th 2009 2:02PM

no co-op.

NaeemTHM @ Jul 15th 2009 2:11PM

Because this is just another port.

Rodrigo @ Jul 15th 2009 4:46PM

because there is already a cellphone version with low polycount graphics =)

charlie b. @ Jul 15th 2009 4:52PM

i'll happily take a port of RE4 over ANOTHER port of RE1

morningdrive @ Jul 15th 2009 12:49PM

this would work so perfect for the psp!!! why doesn't capcom port this to the PSP too!! One joystiq

aReEeNeN @ Jul 15th 2009 12:54PM

Really? After playing RE4 on Wii, and then going back to analog controls in RE5, I found it very frustrating. I could only imagine the analog "nub" on PSP being even more frustrating. I'd rather them port the GCN REmake to PSP just because it's less action-orientated, suiting the PSP's control set up much better.

sony boy @ Jul 15th 2009 1:08PM

they're already making a RE on the psp, silly.

Nook @ Jul 15th 2009 1:25PM

i'd love to see this on PSP too. i don't see the controls as an issue, of course i did not like or use the wii controls - i used classic controller...i liked the playtime better with that than even the wavebird when i played it one of many times on cube.

bring it on, i'll buy yet another copy of this game, hell....i may buy it for my wife on her itouch......which she's ALWAYS playing games on, the ds sits around alot nowadays.

aReEeNeN @ Jul 15th 2009 12:56PM

Does anyone know if this is the full version of the game, or has content/areas been cut from the game? If it is the full game, that's incredible! If I had an iPhone, I'd get it!

D-5 @ Jul 15th 2009 1:15PM

Just to be a dick, I'd say less zombies on-screen and only one zombie model.

ZenGaijin @ Jul 15th 2009 12:59PM

Who would buy a worse version of RE4?

Why didn't they just make a original RE for the iPhone?

emagius @ Jul 15th 2009 1:14PM

They did: Resident Evil Degeneration. It looks (and plays) pretty much the same as the game pictured in the above screenshot.

I wish Capcom would just port over Puzzle Fighter. That's a game I would buy on the iPhone.

Damian @ Jul 15th 2009 1:18PM

I seem to think this is degeneration, and they just called it re4, because this is not the re4 i played, and degeneration is made for portables.

-Vexx- @ Jul 15th 2009 1:17PM

Where is my Atari 2600 version?

Orion @ Jul 15th 2009 1:20PM

They did say they were going to start releasing "3G and under" versions of a game and "3GS" versions of a game.

In that cases, from what I know about the insides of the 3GS, they could easily pull off near ps2 quality graphics with the 3GS. The 3GS should put it about dreamcast level, and that's certainly doable for this game on a small screen.

For those talking about only having one zombie model, blah blah... You do realize there's not size restriction on the iPhone. There are games that take 10 megs, and there are games that take hundreds of megs. The sky is the limit for this.

Curious how it turns out..

Matt Ferens @ Jul 15th 2009 1:22PM

C'mon RE4 remake for 360! You've put it on almost every other console!

InFaMoUs1- @ Jul 15th 2009 2:50PM

uhh... no

kosmocrisis @ Jul 15th 2009 1:27PM

Meh! I'm happy with the games that I've downloaded for $0.99, but a lot of games look great but play like poo poo.

The iPod/iPhone isn't powerful enough to support full quality games. And the file size of the games can't support the cost to consumers for games that pose as franchise hits.

ill trooper @ Jul 15th 2009 1:46PM

"The iPod/iPhone isn't powerful enough to support full quality games."

I think you're wrong about the power, but the lack of hard controls might be a larger deterent as the only people that will get excited about a game like this are gamers coming from a "controller" mindset. To really sit and get comfortable with a game like this, an actual d-pad and buttons really help. Still, that iDracula game was very playable, control-wise, so who knows? I'll check it out when it lands.

kosmocrisis @ Jul 15th 2009 3:39PM

Power is an issue, as well as controls, and file size. My copy of Let's Golf is fun but chugs like a teenager at a frat party. Read this quote below I found at http://www.hardcoreware.net/graphics-specs-compare-iphone-3gs-to-psp-to-ds/:

"Well the iPhone 3GS is fast, but not that fast. According to AnandTech’s report, the 3GS is running a PowerVR SGX, most likely at 200 MHz. at that speed, it can push about 7 million triangles per second, and fill at rate of 250 million pixels per second.

Compare that to the PSP, which pushes 33 million triangles per second, with a fill rate of 664 million pixels per second. (source)"

jason w @ Jul 15th 2009 1:29PM

The other Resident Evil game on the Iphone plays well. Im in for this one 2.

arrness (PSN: chsowls) @ Jul 15th 2009 1:59PM

i better be getting the new ipod touch in september...

imma break somebody

Dv8thwonder @ Jul 15th 2009 2:16PM

I'm am thankful for being an early adopter.

Freestyle Farfetchd @ Jul 15th 2009 2:35PM

Agreed, I havn't got a single game that actually conrols well on my iPod touch, except maybe Rolando. 99% of games will control very badly on iPhone/Touch, no matter how much you change around the control scheme. Just curse Jobsy's button phobia.

Akuma FTW @ Jul 15th 2009 2:49PM

I'm assuming they'd have better luck with the on-rails Chronicles games

Joe G @ Jul 15th 2009 3:30PM

I guess dissing on the iphone gets me voted down.

Levi @ Jul 15th 2009 3:36PM

Without getting into the iPhone as a console debate, I gotta comment on the controls: aiming that gun with the virtual analog looks atrocious. It might be fine for moving around, but not for aiming. I would bet money that they won't implement this, but I feel using the screen as a trackpad while in aiming mode would be a thousand times better. However, this is a port of RE4M that was available on other phones such as Nokias, so a trackpad aiming system would just require more work. It won't happen, and the game's control system will feel clunky.

But we'll all buy it anway XD