Resident Evil 5 (360/PS3)

[Candyman5]

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After watching the RE5 Gameplay video, I dont remember RE4 having a cover system....Maybe its been so long since I played it that I dont remember it.

[ThaGenecyst]

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After watching the RE5 Gameplay video, I dont remember RE4 having a cover system....Maybe its been so long since I played it that I dont remember it.

No cover system. Not in the traditional sense like GRAW or Gears of War or Winback at least

[Flawless]

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1UP Preview

Sheva's Your Pal: She's like Yorda from Ico, but gutsier, more helpful, and wields a Magnum. She picks items up if you tell her to, and also hands you items she recognizes you'll need (like ammo for whatever weapon you're carrying). She's not totally user-controllable, but she's handy in a firefight, makes a useful mule, and does a good job staying alive. Her pathfinding is also quite adept, as she rarely, if ever, gets stuck on anything.

Oi, Mate!: Speaking of money, the Cockney salesman from RE4 has seemingly retired. All of your item purchasing is handled between chapter checkpoints and after major plot advancements. During the game, you'll find many valuable items: Jewels, bars/bags of gold, jewelry, and other sellable goods (like rare insects). At the inventory management screen, you can buy items, reorganize Chris and Sheva's personal inventories, and upgrade your weapons. Raising your weapon's power to the max unlocks additional bonuses, like special 3D capsule toys (which contain extremely detailed figurines you can inspect in RE5's model viewer).

Buyer's Remorse: If you don't have room to pick up a weapon you find during your travels, don't worry -- it'll be available in the shop for purchase at the end of the level. Since Chris and Sheva both have limited inventory space, you may be tempted to pick up every gun you find, but it's probably best to upgrade a few core weapons' reload speed, attack power, and ammo capacity to max, before you spend money upgrading the other two dozen armaments you find along the way. Go for balance: A pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun.

No Ribbons, No Trunks: As you may have surmised, RE5 dispenses with the storage trunks and the save ribbons. Instead, it features a generous amount of checkpoints and auto-save points. This keeps the game moving perpetually forward, and it virtually removes the need for backtracking.

The Visuals Are Some Spicy Meatball: While the overall visual quality of RE5 is astounding, there are a few levels which are truly a sight to behold, and easily look as good as anything in Gears of War 2 or Metal Gear Solid 4. Check out the detail in Chris Redfield's kevlar armor textures, and how the self-shadowing rolls over his physique. Even the survival knife strapped to his back independently animates depending on his motion.

Hell Yeah, Secrets!: RE5 has some unlockables that fans of the series will be very happy to see. This probably goes without saying, but it's obvious that the dev team covered all their bases when it came to the game's bonus features. Or most of them, at least. We still haven't found Akuma.

[Cyros]

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The RE type writer is gone? I'll be damned.

[Candyman5]

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No cover system. Not in the traditional sense like GRAW or Gears of War or Winback at least

O ok, then the cover system in RE5 is new. Nice.

[Flawless]

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Free $20 gift card with the purchase of RE5 at Toys R Us.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=216197

[Candyman5]

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Free $20 gift card with the purchase of RE5 at Toys R Us.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=216197

Can you still get that deal if you buy online?

[ChubbyBanana]

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I'm still on the fence about this. I have paid off Halo Wars at Gamestop, but I found an early copy.

Not sure if I should just transfer the reserve to this or not.

[~Guru~]

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my hook up which got me both baseball games on friday told me that he will get RE on thursday....

nice....about 8 days early

[Flawless]

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Resident Evil 5: The Mercenaries Revealed

What happens when you beat Resident Evil 5? While I can't tell you everything you unlock, I can reveal that a new mode becomes available. Mercenaries mode, popular among RE4 players, is back. Mercenaries is a timed survival mode where you not only need to worry about staying alive, but must lay waste to infected villagers as quickly as possible to rack up a high score.

There are ten playable characters for Mercenaries Mode, though only BSAA Sheva and Chris are available at the start. Now, when I say ten characters, what I really mean is ten different skins. You will, in fact, unlock different versions of Chris and Sheva along with a few other surprise characters. Each character skin comes with its own weapon set, which can't be changed. BSAA Chris rocks a powered-up shotty and handgun, while Sheva has a sniper rifle and submachine gun. Part of Mercenaries mode is figuring out strategies for earning S rankings with a specific set of items.

Survival is a real challenge because Mercenaries is constantly shoveling enemies at you. And just when you think you have a handle on the grunts, one of the tough mini-bosses shows up to boost the stress level. Get lucky enough to survive a long time -- and rack up the points -- and even tougher enemies get thrown at you. You score points by killing enemies and if you can lay waste to several in a short period of time, your combo meter increases. The higher your combo, the more points you earn. Extra time is added for certain kills, but really, your focus should be on surviving until your pal Josh can pick you up. Even if you rack up a huge score, it's all wiped away if you die.

Each level is a modified version of an area from the campaign, with the final level having been made from scratch but set to the amazing visual background of the end fight (which I'll let you discover on your own). You'll have to relearn all of these areas through multiple playthroughs, as you'll want to know where to find specific ammo, the best places to group enemies together for massive combos, and the locations of combo boosters and time bonuses. Knowing a map by heart and plotting your course of destruction is just as crucial -- perhaps more so -- than your ability to master the Magnum or boom stick.

Enemies continually respawn in Mercenaries and, as you might expect, each stage has its own set of enemies. You'll have a fairly good idea of what to expect in terms of a level's enemies based on the campaign, but that really won't prepare you for the coming onslaught.

As with the campaign, Mercenaries supports cooperative play. Unfortunately, it's not online. Instead, you can play on the same machine in a split-screen mode. It seems unlikely that Capcom could build a great online campaign but not be able to pull off online in Mercenaries mode, which leaves me to believe that its exclusive is intentional. The lack of online is definitely a let-down, but split-screen co-op is nevertheless a blast. Oddly enough, I found it a bit harder to survive with a buddy than solo. Not because there are more or tougher enemies, but because two people need to communicate to succeed. And if that communication is lacking, someone invariably will die. Possibly because I accidentally blew them up.

Mercenaries is a hectic experience that really puts the survival back in survival horror. If your only task was to run around and avoid dying, this wouldn't be much fun or much of a challenge. But the mix of having to confront as many enemies as possible while trying to stay alive adds a level of anxiety to Mercenaries unlike just about anything I've experience in the past year. Whether or not Resident Evil 5's campaign mode is to your liking, it's worth beating to unlock Mercenaries Mode.

[Candyman5]

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Well that is gay...No online Co-Op Mercenary Mode.

[Behindshadows]

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I feel like dead space is much scarier and better than this game. Just from the bad camera and controls of RE 5, I can't see this being a 1st day purchase. And that's really odd considering every other game in the series I bought on day 1.

RE 2 is still my favorite, RE Zero is 2nd!

[TheDutchDad]

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So I never really played this series...what makes it so good? From watching the videos, it doesn't look like a game I wouldn't be too interested in..although I said that about L4D and I was dead wrong on that.

[Flawless]

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Retrospective Episode 5 - RE4, RE Films

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[ChubbyBanana]

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I feel like dead space is much scarier and better than this game. Just from the bad camera and controls of RE 5, I can't see this being a 1st day purchase. And that's really odd considering every other game in the series I bought on day 1.

RE 2 is still my favorite, RE Zero is 2nd!

This is exactly how I feel. I eventually got used to the camera, but I didn't like the pacing of the demo.

I loved RE and RE 2 though. Wish they would make those available again.