Post by Matt on Jul 2, 2006 17:54:47 GMT -5
One of my favorite games and franchises. I love the survival horror genre and Resident Evil is pushing the boundaries!
Here's some overview from Wikipedia:
"Set in 2004 (six years after the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3), the Umbrella Corporation has finally been destroyed. Following the events of the previous titles, news spreads of Umbrella's involvement in the viral outbreak which led to the destruction of Raccoon City. The news causes the company's share prices to plummet. Once the U.S. Government formally and indefinitely suspends the corporation's business and arrests the heads of the corporation, Umbrella goes bankrupt and discontinues research. For all intents and purposes, Umbrella is finished.
The player takes control of U.S. Agent and former Raccoon City Police Department rookie, Leon S. Kennedy (the S. standing for Scott, which explains why Salazar refers to him as "Scott Kennedy" at the end of Chapter 4), as he is sent on a mission to an undisclosed Spanish-speaking European village in Spain (that can be seen when Wesker uses his Umbrella satellite camera to watch Ada). His mission is to rescue the President's abducted daughter, Ashley Graham. The mission naturally goes awry as Leon uncovers and clashes with Ashley's kidnappers, "Los Illuminados" (from Castilian, The Illuminated; not to be confused with the Illuminati). During his adventure, Leon crosses paths with Ada Wong, a spy who met Leon during the Umbrella incident (the events of Resident Evil 2), and Jack Krauser, a former colleague thought to have died in a crash two years ago. He allies with Luis Sera, a researcher once involved in Los Illuminados movement who seeks to undo their work and retrieve a sample of Las Plagas (a breed of parasitic organisms that turns its victims into Saddler's servants). Luis dies at the hands of the main antagonist, Lord Osmund Saddler, the leader of Los Illuminados.
Leon undergoes a long, grueling odyssey that spans a village, a castle and a military complex on a remote island. Against monstrous odds, he manages to survive the Plagas-infected hordes and eliminate Krauser, Salazar and Saddler. He succeeds in rescuing Ashley, and escapes. However, Ada retains a sample of Las Plagas, and the threat of Umbrella begins to resurface."
I played and beat it and it was awesome! It was first released on the GC, then finally put on the PS2, but if you love killing zombies, get it!
There are major improvments for this one, including being more like a thrid person shooter, a camera being place behind Leon instead of set in a corner, a new laser aim so you know where to shoot instead of just guessing, better weapons, upgrades, and faster smarter and scarier villians!
I am not kidding, these new ememies are not human nor zombies, but infected would qualify. They know when your aiming at them, duck, even call for help! And they're a lot faster too, so be ready. There are loads of surprises as all RE games are to keep you on your toes.
You can check out screen shots here:
ww2.capcom.com/re4/gui.html
I bring this up cause its an awesome game, my favorite since RE II, AND there is this new trailer for RE5 called Biohazard in development. Check it out here: media.ps3.ign.com/media/734/734381/vids_1.html
No release date is offcial but its supposed to be out before March 2007 for PS3 and XBOX. Think its gunna be better than RE4?
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I just found this in an E3 06 article dated May 15th:
"Resident Evil 5 and Devil May Cry 4: Capcom's two most anticipated next-generation games were not present at E3 in any form. The absence of even a frame of footage was particularly glaring, given that trailers for the two games had been shown at Microsoft's X05 event last October and at E3 2005 one year ago."
Hmm...this is interesting...I hope they are just busy developing it!
Here's some overview from Wikipedia:
"Set in 2004 (six years after the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3), the Umbrella Corporation has finally been destroyed. Following the events of the previous titles, news spreads of Umbrella's involvement in the viral outbreak which led to the destruction of Raccoon City. The news causes the company's share prices to plummet. Once the U.S. Government formally and indefinitely suspends the corporation's business and arrests the heads of the corporation, Umbrella goes bankrupt and discontinues research. For all intents and purposes, Umbrella is finished.
The player takes control of U.S. Agent and former Raccoon City Police Department rookie, Leon S. Kennedy (the S. standing for Scott, which explains why Salazar refers to him as "Scott Kennedy" at the end of Chapter 4), as he is sent on a mission to an undisclosed Spanish-speaking European village in Spain (that can be seen when Wesker uses his Umbrella satellite camera to watch Ada). His mission is to rescue the President's abducted daughter, Ashley Graham. The mission naturally goes awry as Leon uncovers and clashes with Ashley's kidnappers, "Los Illuminados" (from Castilian, The Illuminated; not to be confused with the Illuminati). During his adventure, Leon crosses paths with Ada Wong, a spy who met Leon during the Umbrella incident (the events of Resident Evil 2), and Jack Krauser, a former colleague thought to have died in a crash two years ago. He allies with Luis Sera, a researcher once involved in Los Illuminados movement who seeks to undo their work and retrieve a sample of Las Plagas (a breed of parasitic organisms that turns its victims into Saddler's servants). Luis dies at the hands of the main antagonist, Lord Osmund Saddler, the leader of Los Illuminados.
Leon undergoes a long, grueling odyssey that spans a village, a castle and a military complex on a remote island. Against monstrous odds, he manages to survive the Plagas-infected hordes and eliminate Krauser, Salazar and Saddler. He succeeds in rescuing Ashley, and escapes. However, Ada retains a sample of Las Plagas, and the threat of Umbrella begins to resurface."
I played and beat it and it was awesome! It was first released on the GC, then finally put on the PS2, but if you love killing zombies, get it!
There are major improvments for this one, including being more like a thrid person shooter, a camera being place behind Leon instead of set in a corner, a new laser aim so you know where to shoot instead of just guessing, better weapons, upgrades, and faster smarter and scarier villians!
I am not kidding, these new ememies are not human nor zombies, but infected would qualify. They know when your aiming at them, duck, even call for help! And they're a lot faster too, so be ready. There are loads of surprises as all RE games are to keep you on your toes.
You can check out screen shots here:
ww2.capcom.com/re4/gui.html
I bring this up cause its an awesome game, my favorite since RE II, AND there is this new trailer for RE5 called Biohazard in development. Check it out here: media.ps3.ign.com/media/734/734381/vids_1.html
No release date is offcial but its supposed to be out before March 2007 for PS3 and XBOX. Think its gunna be better than RE4?
-------------Update---------------------------------------------------
I just found this in an E3 06 article dated May 15th:
"Resident Evil 5 and Devil May Cry 4: Capcom's two most anticipated next-generation games were not present at E3 in any form. The absence of even a frame of footage was particularly glaring, given that trailers for the two games had been shown at Microsoft's X05 event last October and at E3 2005 one year ago."
Hmm...this is interesting...I hope they are just busy developing it!