I'm not even that excited about this game. Nowhere near RE4 levels anyway.

gamadaya

I have no idea why, but the use of the word "Bonanza" caused me to laugh out loud. Usually I don't even laugh inwardly at such things, but this one just got me some how...

QualityJeverage

I think the reason I am not as excited is that I had my fill of the action RE with RE4. I think it would be nice for RE to go back to it's survival horror roots while keeping the new aiming system and realtime environments. That would make me a happy camper.

gamadaya

I could be wrong. it just looked like a kid to me.

Oyako

@Master_Achilles:
I would imagine he's referring to the 'zombies' looking like teenagers, which would technically make them kids?

Guerrilla Mason

@Oyako: I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Bioshock, not RE5.

dowingba

@Oyako:
What are you talking about? Shooting kids? I have yet to see that.

Master_Achilles

@greenanji: Your definitely right, I don`t share the same anticipation for it as I did for 4 either, because RE4 was so goddamn awesome in its reinvention of the series that this one just takes the spotlight as a sequel, hopefully a good one.

PITwelve

Everyone got in an uproar over the game being in africa but no one says anything about shooting kids.

I could care less either way but its just kind of funny

Oyako

@Cogito: *Mansions, not machines.

Cogito

@Altersparck:

If Sheva is going to basically be the 2P character, chances are she'll be a contender for the whole game like Jill rather than be a damsel.

I wouldn't be surprised if both characters face a situation where the other character has to save them though.

Kiyosuki

The only thing that worries me from the demo videos, is the waste of ammo your A.I. partner will commit.

Also, I demand more Bandersnatch. Or Zombie Babar the Elephant.

Kenofthedead

@SigmundTheSeaMonster:
*raises hand* What's a 'nubian?'

Guerrilla Mason

@gamadaya: Glitch in the matrix. ;)

The more I see this game the more impressed I become. The animations, graphics, and overall art style are nothing short of brilliant. It's amazing to me that the classic "survival horror," (which is what RE is, as a series, at its core) can go from dingy castles and old machines to brightly-lit, outdoor enviroments and still retain the "holyshittherearezombieschasingmeshitshitshit" intensity that the game is famous for.

In the past this may have been accomplished by surprised factor (dogs jumping through windows, the sudden appearance of crimson heads) but now its pure intensity, pure adrenaline the whole way through.

I love it.

Cogito

This game is really looking good. The co-op makes it a must buy. I just wish it were coming sooner. I guess Left 4 Dead will have to do this year.

Spartan1308™

No matter what system you get this for...it's gonna be hot.

Sammo21

RE4 was probably my favourite game last gen, these E3 vids and screens aren't making me nearly that excited though... It looks like high res RE4 with co-op, I hope they differentiate it abit and make it a bit more modern. The chainsaw guy had terrible AI

greenanji

@dowingba:

I was just thinking these looked a little different

Bernoulli

Being similar in play style to RE4 in no way is a bad thing. Beneath the surface this game could have a lot to it that RE4 didn`t. Damn, March is a long ways away : (

PITwelve

Hooray for realistically-proportioned videogame women! I mean, seriously... women are portrayed so badly in a lot of games. Hopefully, Sheva won't become some damsel-in-distress later in this game.

Aw hell, I gotta say it. Sheva is hotness. Rawr!

Altersparck

@SigmundTheSeaMonster: Nubian?! Oh shit I thought she was like Spanish or something.

AngelMayLaugh

Capcom you aren't fooling anyone. We've already seen your game in motion. These are bullshots.

dowingba

Still no living dead, huh? Pass.

So I guess this is the sequel to the RE spin-off series that for some reason goes by the same name as those previous entries with actual living dead zombies.

Real_fn_Show

Thank you for the images! I'm diggin this chick and the beretta she wields!
Damn, a hot, nubian, zombie-killin babe!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Game of the year 2009. Enough said.

gameradam

Even if it's a better looking RE4 starring Chris essentially, I'm still looking forward to it. RE4 was meant to start a new trend so naturally from here its going to take cues, and RE4 was one of the funnest games I've played in years so if it has that same fun factor in tact I'm good for it. It's a bit too early in this new RE styles' life to start complaining about the same thing for me. (though the falling animations for the um, infected, could at least have been changed. lol)

I'm very curious to see how the online co-op works. That could be interesting. Perhaps if the two characters get separated for periods of time rather than be kept together through the whole thing, like they have separate paths a la Leon and Claire, but online allows those two paths to intersect at times.

Could be cool for a Mercenaries mini game too.

Kiyosuki

MUSTAFA: Someone help me! I'm still alive, only I'm very badly burned. Hello up there! Anyone! Can someone call an ambulance? I'm in quite a lot of pain. Ow! You shot me! You shot me right in the arm!

zkotaku

@RTW: Hotter then the chick from Re4. I thought she was Lara Croft when I first saw her.

I wonder who would win in a fight between the hammer dude and chainsaw dude.

AngelMayLaugh

What happened to this topic for a while? According to my comment's time, I posted almost an hour before this went up.

gamadaya

Zombies in the daylight, now THAT's the game I'm talking about. Also, hawt chick is hawt.

RTW

@gamadaya: maybe a little bonus at the end, a sequence with the fixed cameras, that would be nice too.

stryker1800

@stryker1800: and @gamadaya I guess I feel you in a way. I really think the series took a huge step forward with RE4 though compared at least to 3:Nemesis, I liked code Veronica but was meh on Zero mission. Never tried the online co-op outbreak stuff. Hell I have a RE:director's cut sitting right here with the $49.99 price tag glued to the jewel case. I think from the screens I've seen so far this looks like as good of a jump from RE:1 to RE:2 compared with RE:4. If you get that sentence you know what I mean.

Pornosaur

@stryker1800:
I could see that happening on the PSP pretty easily.

gamadaya

This looks great, haven't played a RE game since maybe the second one, could have even been the first. The driving part looks insane. Actually a lot of it looked insane, in quite a good way.

mouroutaru

@gamadaya: i agree it brought the series more into nows gaming so to speak but, maybe for nostalgias sake i wouldnt be mad if they had a sequence with fixed angles, only if it was done in good taste and very well executed of course

stryker1800

@stryker1800:
I'd say it adds a little crap your pants to the whole experience. Still, I think that the new control in RE4 was a step in the right direction for the series.

gamadaya

@gamadaya: That exactly what we need. Old school RE.

tdreher

@Pyro Jack:
Probably, but I'm just happy that they are showing the game as it is, not as some concept pre render.

gamadaya

@gamadaya: true but still when something pops up behind you because you cant move the camera it adds a bit of tension to the whole experience.

stryker1800

@bornonce: There might be a couple zombies.

Seriously though, much like in RE4, we're just gonna call them "zombies" because they act exactly like zombies and it's just easier that way.

dowingba

Did anyone else notice that when they showed the demo that one of the enemy's legs went through the stairs? Do you think they will fix that kinda stuff?

Pyro Jack

@stryker1800: forgot one thing... the entire RE series needs better writers the stories are just too shallow, give me a good story please

stryker1800

@stryker1800:
I think the camera system had less to do with it than the fact that you were always short on supplies and could die at any minute.

gamadaya

so pumped for this game man!!
i'm glad to see that the co-op will still be ok even when you play alone. And that it will handle better then zero's.

_Ted_

although i love the new gameplay system, i do miss the old system because i felt the fixed camera angles kind of added to the suspense. you just didnt know what was in that one corner you couldnt see until you moved close enough to it, i admit it made boss battles difficult at times. now on the subject of the enemies i also miss the slow lumbering zombies...who doesnt love slow lumbering zombies but the new enemies do fit the new game style more. the free cameras and such would, from my point of view make the zombies a little less intimidating where as when they are running at you from all angles and there is a dude with a giant hammer right behind them it brings that intensity that you felt when not know whats just off screen in the old games.

stryker1800

@Pornosaur:
That part was kind of hard. Still didn't do what the original did to me though. In the original, I was pretty much always tense; counting my ammo and trying to avoid confrontations. RE4 never inspired that kind of total fear in me.

gamadaya

There are NO ZOMBIES in RE5. It is not a game about the undead, but rather about whole villages of people infected by a mysterious virus that makes them mindless killers. The actual gameplay footage shown at E3 on G4TV today showed how the two major characters act in co-op mode, with each depending on the other at various times in the game.

Zombies or not, it has to be a LOT better than Dead Rising for the Wii!

bornonce

@Oyako: Explain yourself, sir. And quickly.

Spoony Bard

@Guerrilla Mason:
I don't think there is enough child killing in today's video games. But between this and Bioshock, we have a start. Warms my heart.

gamadaya

Game looks great so far, can't wait. @gamadaya you want survival horror? What about *spoiler* in RE4 where you have to take down an army of those slow creepy chanting zombie monks in the castle. I was sitting there with my sniper scope zoomed in most of the time just dreading that one of them was about to bash me in the back of the head.

Pornosaur

If he is talking about the teenagers, as funny and nonsensical as it is it seems like young kids are off limits, but teens are ok!

Kiyosuki

@Guerrilla Mason: Egypt-y area

z357x

black people on fire? jesse jackson is going to cut someone's nuts off.........

jfx316

@Aaron-173:
3 things:

1. Yes you have a point and the racial issue was blown out of proportion.

2. Don't bring that shit up because it always inevitably causes multiple hammer related casualties.

3. Not everyone who speaks Spanish is Latino.

gamadaya

@Pyro Jack: What are you talking about. That's OBVIOUSLY a ghost.

Oh, and BTW... about this racial issue:

I don't get it, why don't you see this kind of shitstorm when white guys are blowing arabs' heads off in COD4/ever other modern combat game, or when they shoot latinos in RE4?
This whole affair, to me, shows how ignorant we still are about race issues. This is the figurative killing of the fly with the sledgehammer, and it's about time humanity stopped letting its racial panties crawl up into its proverbial chode before chafing occurs.

Aaron-173

@stryker1800:
lol, that seems like something Kojima would put in one of his games.

gamadaya

@z357x:
Not getting the Mallrats reference? *mumbles* damnkidstoday...

Guerrilla Mason

@humorbot:
Stuff like gore never really gets to me. It was the mood of the original RE that terrified me. I definitely won't say that I was excited about this game, even if I do turn out to love it. That's happened plenty of times before.

gamadaya

How can any RE fan NOT be excited about this game? that's just ignorant.
And is there anyway i can visit Kotaku and not see anything RE5? i just dont want to spoil anything further.

CancerMan

@jfx316: <--- Top play nominee?

snakepliskin

@gamadaya: Like you've been saying, a little bonus fixed-angle level for the nostalgia seekers would be a nice treat, but if you've seen the game in person I suspect you'd eat your words.

Remember the first time that chainsaw-wielding sumbitch tore your head off in RE4 and you had to gingerly set down the controller and back away because that shit was just too intense? All of RE5 (or all of the demo build, anyway) is like that. Absolutely gorgeous and nightmarishly visceral.

Between RE5 and SF4 Capcom's just about stealing the show.

humorbot

@cyhborg: I'm pretty sure those gameplay vids were in god mode or they haven't added any collision to the game yet. I doubt they'd ship the finished game wihtout remembering to make it possible to ...get hit by enemies.

dowingba

ooo she's pretty...

Gfx are great but what's with the bad AI? Besides that, in one of the gameplay vids the chainsaw guy phases through both chris and sheva. oh well they have a few more months to polish it up.

cyhborg

I'm I sad for wanting to find the woman who the female sidekick was based on and impregnating her with my love virus? :(

...I'm lonely :(

okenny :)

oops

+ Watch video

cyhborg

@dowingba:

here's the vid i was refering to. it ain't no god mode ;)
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cyhborg

@gamadaya: Fair enough. RE5 is definitely about gore, but it's a lot more than that to me. Something like teeth-grinding anxiety. Like, do I really want to push through to that next area because I know an army of virus-infested pseudo-zombies are ready to descend upon me, wielding god knows what scraped-together instruments of destruction? Granted, it's not quite the creeping dread that the early REs on PS1 offered, which I quite enjoyed. I think that sensation is handled quite nicely by games like Silent Hill and Fatal Frame (barring SH4, which was arse, more or less).

humorbot

This game, if it's anything close to RE4, is going to be pure AWESOME.

People complaining it's not going to be good because it uses the same gameplay mechanics than RE4 are totally off the bat. The gameplay mechanic was good in RE4. Tons of videogames uses similar gameplay now. Honestly, I wouldn't want it to change too much. I want a new story with new settings . A sequel. Not an entirely new game on which you could add a different title.

Padder

These look great and make me interested in the game even though I'm not a fan of survival horror. RE4 was pretty good but not great. This looks along the same lines and has my interest perked just a bit. I wonder if the female character is going to be playable?

On another note regarding the screen shots... Anyone else notice that just about every single one of them either features on the female partner who is supposed to be racially/ethnically from that region? I say this because I remember the literal shit storm of people calling the game racist before when it was a white man centered in the imagery. Looks like Capcom is taking pains to make absolutely sure that people see the female character in all the publicity for the game to prevent a repeat of the previous mess.

FlimFlaminus

@Guerrilla Mason: If he'd only seen Mallrats, then of course he wouldn't get the reference. Now if he'd also seen Chasing Amy... ;)

Jazhuis

RE4 set the bar, and now the original guys are going to enhance it.

This is gonna be one hell of a game.

MrPhil

this game is looking awfully co-op. WHICHWOULDBEFRIGGINAWESOME!

CGVega

@cyhborg that is quite possibly the worst person I have ever seen play RE, words can't describe how clunkier he made the game look. In all seriousness though I hope it's true they change the controls a bit from the RE4 controls, like the creator said, because it won't exactly feel next-gen with tank controls.

jmill87

It's interesting how the gaming press seems to be anticipating this game more than most of the people commenting here. I'm a huge Resident Evil fan, and I still think that the first installment on PS1 is the best, "tank controls" and all. Here's my problem with RE4: sure, the game looked and played like a dream, but the plot and characters were *completely ridiculous*, not to mention they had little connection to the rest of the series.

In RE2, Leon Kennedy was reserved, stoic, and just an all-around likable protagonist. In RE4, Capcom decided to splice him with Dante from Devil May Cry so all of a sudden he was an air-headed hotshot, tossing around one-liners like he was in an 80's action movie. Overall, it felt too much like a spin-off or a stand-alone game, not worthy to bear the numeral "4" in its title. Kind of like how Resident Evil 3: Nemesis didn't further the story along much at all (except for nuking Racoon City). Code Veronica was more of a true sequel to RE2.

I'm sure RE5 will once again feature a great visual style and gameplay, but I'm hoping it can re-establish some level of seriousness to the story and flesh out the Resident Evil mythology a bit more.

BelmontHeir