The start was awesome, I could care less about the voice acting, all it matter was how he said it.

Evil as hell

ultimate920

i didn't realize how terrifying zombie biker gangs could be until now.

ForAllThatEverWas

Game looks good, guns sound really dinky just like RE4 which isn't going to ruin it for me.

Going to be a whooooole lotta fun when it hits.

syl1985

@evilralphwiggum: The Wii version is the best of them all.

NotNormal23224

Looks awesome!
Wii would like to play!

asymptotic

But the ultimate question is... has the weapons seller returned. I mean hearing the word stranger 1000 times in the game is a must for me.

Dullshimmer

Awesome!! Zombie Bikers!!! :D

BTW... is that "El Gigante" at the beggining? So...those are the samples that Wesker took? And who's the doc at the beggining? Wesker gave him "Las Plagas" samples? Wesker is trying to bring Umbrella back?

Are we going to see Wesker? xD

Awesome game... long wait

Chopper_Mike

@sanyo: Wouldn't be an RE game without a ridiculously silly villain though would it?

My favorite was the crossdressing aristocrat from Code Veronica.
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It looks like this has more open spaces which I like, though with the hordes of zombies and apparently the same control scheme, I have to wonder how the player will keep from being overwhelmed. Guess that's part of the fun.

wanion

Impressive game play but i think this is going way beyond the original re... so, this is melry another zombie killing game...

but look at the bright side... zombies are good, chainsaws are good, zombies using chainsaws are epic.

VeNoMmx

Wait, where's my Jill sandwich?
I was promised a Jill sandwich, dammit!

TheLAG

Game looks great and I'm looking forward to kicking ass with Chris again.

That being said, I'm somewhat disappointed. I miss the old Resident Evil games, tank controls and all. The atmosphere just isn't there anymore. I mean come on...buying ammo? Would rather find it and for it to be sparse.

Would love to see at least one more traditional RE title, but with the success of 4 and the soon to be success of 5, I don't see that happening. Guess I'll just remember the old times while enjoying this game for what it is.

Saint Anima

Are they zombies, or is it Las Plagas again? Or some variant thereof, cause that looks alot like Las Plagas.

I haven't been following it much.

Faíru

@gamadaya:
*its

I'm sorry, I keep doing that. Never did before. I'm starting to get worried.

gamadaya

Can't say I'm very excited or impressed. RE4 was great, but this looks like all it did was make the graphics better. And it's not like the graphics even look phenomenal. Also, I don't think I'm the only one that wants RE to return to it's survival horror roots. I love the new camera and aiming system, but what's wrong with a little ammo conservation and morbid fear?

gamadaya

Sheva has quite the nice hiney. That is all.

CHU BOI

@DashTheHand:

You forgot to mention "bring back tank controls" in your purist RE complaint. Enjoy the progress, there are still undead people there.

MonkeyBiz

that guy in the opening is funny. this one just might make the list.

off topic: anyone else notice the E3 section in the PSN Store? has some trailers, fallout 3, guitar hero, destroy all humans, a naruto storm promo.

islandknight

Oh and Chris looking as delicious as i would expect, lol.

valhum

@_Ted_: Same here man, same here........but if the Wii somehow manages to get this, i will def get both hahaha.......it is nice to daydream :oP

valhum

Great, Dr. Salvador made me poop myself last game. Now we have some Asteroth mo-fo with giant fish/meat hooks on his back.

MonkeyBiz

Sigh.... Resident Evil is now so far from scary and thrilling that it makes me yawn to even see that trailer. Seriously, those weird tentacle zombies are about as lame as any other poorly thought up space alien. They've lost all their zombie scary factor for me and I see them more as an annoyance than anything.

Bring back real zombies, the ones that are just reanimated corpses, gurgle, moan, etc. Thanks.

DashTheHand

yeah i love the opening guy.

feartheraven

The Bear Cavalry has finally met its match.

[farm2.static.flickr.com]

CHU BOI

So who's the wierdo in the opening? One of the new villians I'm guessing? Can't wait to kill him. Looks really epic.

BassForever

What's an RE title without some over the top God Awful voice acting?

dopepope

@Vecha: Are you really asking if you should play the greatest game of last gen?

Neon

got a 360 just for this

_Ted_

Bad voice acting? I love that guy in the beginning. His nasty accent really makes him sound evil.

T6Spades

SWEET! Chainsaw Man is Back......Well....Maby not the same guy but im sure everyone knows what I mean.

DRCAM

This got me feeling that someone really needs to make a good Mad Max game. The biker gang chase has a definite Road Warrior-vibe going for it.

The voice acting is fine. It's just that the facial expressions don't match up with what he's saying. If that makes any sense.

Silent Predator

@sanyo:
But Resident Evil has never had bad voice acting.

Emperor_Guam

@Vecha:
You should pick it RE4 now because this isn't going to be out until next year so you have plenty of time. Also the PS2 and Game Cube are really cheep. I would recommend getting the Game Cube version over the PS2 even though I got the PS2 version.

Emperor_Guam

The girl in the video kinda looks like Rihana. Lol

Hellicus

Oh man, this looks amazing.

Breened

Huh its alot more action packed then previous Resident Evils. I hope the vehicle section isn't ass like most first tries for a series.

EGBTMagus

wow the voice has to be the worst ever, if the setting is going to be Africa.. give them accents!! well its going to be a little hard since its a fictitious African country but still... is that so freaking hard!! damn... on the lighter note the graphics look amazing..

Kokuryukai

Those graphics look amazing. Reminds me of when I first saw RE4.

GoGoGodzilla

Man, that opening line was some of the cheesiest voice acting I've heard in a while. Yikes.

Other than that it looks really good, although I'm still looking forward to Left 4 Dead more.

sanyo

@zkotaku: yeah..this game is far and beyond different from the first trailer..people should act differently to this one you'd think? lol..yeah..yeah they should..hope they do act differently too..a totally different trailer..

evilralphwiggum

i bet the video is in japanese and then redubbed into english...you can tell...the guy is still smiling when he said boom lol

kingme

Here am I, hoping it will actually channel some scares. Resident Evil 4 was a great game, but nothing in it was scary. It was just generic action.

This looks like it may be able to get a few gasps if they utilize the enemies correctly.

laughingmangits

Hurray for Survival Action games!

That teaser trailer looked really good and all...but I really hope the game has more horror to it then action.

D-Sovereignty

Aww man. March 13th 2009... that's so far from now. This is looking amazing!

dopepope

@Vecha: gamecube version. must play. ps2 version is ok..wii is good..but gamecube version is what you need to play. this game looks amazing..can't wait to play through it 7-10 times like re4 lol

evilralphwiggum

Its not racist game because they are freaking hybrid zombies trying to it your brains.

zkotaku

Looks really great. Can't wait to pick this up for my Playstation 3. Co-op should be a blast as well.

Reule

That just looks like pure fun

BrainEater

?...forgot that punctuation...lol

Vecha

I didn't get to play RE 4......did I miss a lot and should grab it before i get into this.

Vecha

@Dullshimmer: This time the weapon dealer is Drebin xD

Chopper_Mike

@KeroseneClimax: Really? I can't count the number of times I jumped in my seat while playing RE4 on the Wii.

Aethyr

Hmm. froth lessening as direction looks identical to RE4.
I'll still play it, though.

Karoshi

Man, I hope they aren't calling this game survival horror, because this looks as far as you can get from it. Besides that, this game looks like more of four, and that isn't really a bad thing as far as I'm concerned. Still, I do wish that Capcom would make another traditional Resident Evil, because shooting shit up isn't terrifying at all.

KeroseneClimax

@Chopper_Mike: Oh wow, I've beaten the game eight times (on the gamecube alone) and I COMPLETELY forgot about that.

Looks like SOMEONE is going to go for a ninth playthrough….

Faíru

Awesome.Awesome.Awesome.

Awesome.

dead_red_eyes

You know what the scary thing about Resident Evil 4? That you were a mobile, ass kicking mofo and you could STILL get swarmed and torn apart like it was nothing. That's what's horrifying.

When you die in a survival horror game with awful control it's easy to say "This is bullshit, my character sucks." When you're playing as Leon and sniping people's brains out, kicking people's heads off, and whipping grenades like a pro and STILL can't escape or kill that freak with a potato bag on his head and his chainsaw, that's scary. Resident Evil 5 seems to continue that trend and I'm glad.

knulpm

re4 had more than enough white-knuckle scary/tense moments. any more and i dont think i would want to play the game because it would be so uncomfortable. re5 looks AMAZING and is probably going to be the game that finally gets me to buy one of the current-gen consoles.

zomgYGGR

stunning trailer.
jaw-dropping graphics.
co op.
black zombies.

what more could a consumer want ?

mosumi

@Aethyr: THANK YOU! Those that said RE4 had zero scary moments? Ah yeah, the chainsaw ladies pretty much freaked me out pretty well. Not to mention when you thought you killed the Del Lago, at the last part it was going to pull you down with the anchor? Yeah, that freaked me out as well, so don't give me the BS that RE4 has no horror to it.

neojames82

7 months away ugh

Murderdolls

@DashTheHand: Yes, lets bring back the slow, boring enemies from the last few games.....great idea.

neojames82

this looks like a full blown action movie, i'm impress and yet have no cold chills down my spine like previous resident evil games

shinko

Zombie nigga stole my bike!

presidentrich

@gamadaya:
And it seems I was beaten by this guy who also managed to put into words some of the things I was thinking.

Channing

@DashTheHand:
I have to agree with this sentiment. I know, I know, progress is a good thing but I feel like this has entirely left the original premise of the series.
No, I'm not being silly and asking for tank controls again nor am I saying that the ability to aim is a bad thing. However, what I thought was completely captivating about the first Resident Evil was how deliberate the game felt. It was as much a game about discovery and exploration as it was about trying to stay alive and conserve your ammunition for when you needed it most.

What I see in the comments which I find really annoying is the prolific use of "Straw Man" arguments. DashTheHand's comment was pretty heavy handed but the replies that I've seen to him carry no more weight than his. The replies are borderline troll material.
Enough of that.

What I want back is the atmosphere of the game. RE4 made me feel like Superman. Run around shotgun some people and move onto the next room - the game did not elicit the same creepy moody feelings that I got from the first of the series. Feel completely free to disagree with what I'm saying here (as I'm sure there may be many) but RE4 and RE5, to me, feel so far flung from the original Resident Evil that perhaps Capcom should've just started an entirely different IP.

Channing

@gamadaya:
*exciting
And I forgot to add a were in there somewhere, but that's not worth a correction.

gamadaya

@Aethyr:
@zomgYGGR:
Even if that's the case, and you did find RE4 scary (and I'll admit I was scared by U2 and Verdugo), it wasn't scary in the same way. With the original, you constantly tense, worried about shit that could happen 4 hours in the future due to the fact that you used one too many shotgun shells in your previous encounter. That's what made RE scary to me. It was the surviving. I would actually feel a wave of relief wash over me when I got to a room that had no enemies and nothing exiting that could hurt me. I was safe for a brief, fleeting moment! In RE4, the emphasis was moved to killing, and it totally lost that original quality that induced total fear, not just scary thrills.

gamadaya

@thegreatseal:

*I'd say.

Damn you, lack-of-edit-button!

thegreatseal

Well, I'd see creaming my pants was an accident.
But I WANTED it to happen.

Now, I'm just gonna sit here and let that absorb for a bit.
oh...the uh.. gameplay video I mean.... yeah...

thegreatseal

further proof that "zombie" acts as a superlative when interacting with ANYTHING [zombie movie, zombie game, zombie ninja, etc.].

tehbighead

New character is so hot.

betterthanevil

I havent been keeping up either but it definetly looks like Las Plagas (or a variant of them)

This would also make the title of "Zombie Bikers" incorrect even though saying zombie is much easier to say and explain than humans controlled by a parasitic organism that were dug up by an religious cult called Los Illuminados @Faíru:

ColonelBlaha

@evilralphwiggum:

Why the hell would you recommend the GC version over the Wii version?

The Wii Version = GC version with OPTIONAL Wii controls. YOu can still play it with a GC pad, plus it looks better, and has all the bonus content.

otimus

Good to see Capcom went all out and hired the best voice talent possible.

.........

Overall, this trailer sucks. Why? Needs more African Zombies so more talking heads can bitch and moan.

Now THATS entertainment!

Vanguarde

@gamadaya: This man knows what he's saying.

@neojames82: I personally didn't say there was no horror, I said there was nothing to be terrified of. It kind of takes out the whole frightful ambiance of what a traditional survival horror game is about when you can mow down a wave of enemies with the right upgraded gun, and collect gold off the ground to acquire better weaponry and health.

Resident Evil 4 has little sense of putting escape over fighting, and simply doesn't have scary enemies. Hell, the environments were scarier than what that game throws at you. Pseudo zombies speaking Spanish creepily in the dark with some absurd farming tools and medieval weapons? C'mon. Even the mutated enemies like the Iron Maiden's and Garrador weren't scary because they could be easily dispatched depending on how you came to the fight. Your arsenal, wealth, and reflexes gauges how afraid you should be in RE4, not the game itself.

To be honest, Resident Evil as a whole was never truly scary to me, but the earlier ones were better at eliciting fear due to it's emphasis on: puzzle-solving, small item storage, limited saving, on site procurement (i.e not purchasing weapons when you run out of ammo), being less confrontational, no context-sensitive controls, no foreboding music to indicate danger, no laser targeting to secure accurate shots, and relying more heavily on suspense than action.

Resident Evil 4 is a great game due to its overhaul and freedom it gives to the player, but those very same freedoms and overhaul take the feeling of helplessness out of the player and makes them into a formidable action hero, not a survivor working with what they can find to survive within a dangerous situation beyond their control. It's not a bad game at all, the direct opposite in fact, but it's not scary to me and I doubt this game will be too with what I'm seeing.

KeroseneClimax

I will never understand the people who want the old RE back. If they want a less action packed, more suspenseful game, sure, but the old RE games are the absolute most overrated, horrifically unplayable, sadistic pieces of trash I have ever played. Sure, they're scary, sure, they had good graphics and sound (when they came out, at least), but they ARE NOT FUN. Shitty controls, having to micromanage tiny inventories, limited saves, getting killed because you can't see what you're shooting, or can't dodge an enemy, random ridiculous puzzles that make no sense at all, and excessively high difficulty made worse by everything else I said. Try going back to play those games now. You'll see what I mean. If you still disagree, then fine, you are entitled to your opinion, even if it's a backwards one that would sacrifice good game design for a slightly scarier game.

And yes, that voiceover is freakishly bad.

Placentasaurus

I didn't know they got mike tyson for a voice actor.

For_the_lulz

Wow, the dude at the start looks like mark hamill and sounds like rattrap from beast wars, lol.

Eji

Oh and, those flying things were obviously baby mutalisks.

Mit

Resident Evil is no longer a suitable name for this series. Biohazard makes 100 times more sense ever since RE4.

Anyhow, I don't think the voice acting in the beginning was awful, I think the facial expression of the guy just did not match the voice. He was not nearly animated enough, his eyes looked calm, he just opened his mouth idly when laughing, etc. Hopefully they brush up on that before release (as well as the people bouncing all over the place in the co-op demo they showed).

Looks crazy though. A bit disappointed that it looks like it doesn't have much to do with Wesker or Umbrella or anything, but who knows, the second half of the game could look totally different like RE4.

Mit

Take all the best parts from all the res games, mix in a big bowl cook on high and there you have it RE5 that game is going to sell.

Colibri

The lip movements make it look like that guy was saying:
"One two three four one two three four O-N-E!"

Any other guesses out there?

boopadoo

@Placentasaurus:
Obviously we will not see eye to eye on this matter. Don't get the people pining for the atmosphere of the older RE wrong - they don't want awful controls or horrible "can't see" camera angles.

What they want is the atmosphere that the first game (and arguably almost every game but RE4 - sans Umbrella Chronicles) had. Those games felt very deliberate to me - full of suspense. I can run and gun in a lot of games, even if they don't have zombies.

Channing

And the new guy is totally Rattrap from Beast Wars. Don't really care for the accent - it needs a Japanese voice with subtitles (case in point: since when is "oo" as is boom pronounce with a fully open mouth?). Fairly nice design, though.

thespyderboy

I actually enjoy the change in the series and can appreciate a franchise taking some 'risks' and changing the tone or style. Why should a series limit itself to one mode of game play, differing only in the story and some minor upgrades (both of game play - as in weapons - and graphics)?

While the story of RE4 may not be the best (Wesker's conspiracies and Umbrella in general are sorely missed) the high-levels of action and overall feel of an adrenaline-rush more than make up for the lack of scares. In one light, each game plays to its strengths of taking one subject and greatly increasing the intensity. For a majority of the series it consisted of anxiety, anticipation and 'fear', for RE4 (and presumably RE5) it's more about action and strategy. And pirates. (There are actually a lot of pirate references, from the dealer, to the little Napoleon guy, to the friendly 'buddy' whose name I can't remember - looks like it's time for yet another playthrough of the game; and yes, I understand the irony of being too lazy to simply do a search as opposed to playing through a 10+ish hour game - it is a damn good game after all).

Think almost of the difference between pre-N64 Metroids and post-N64 Metroids. The approach is different, but each game can be appreciated on its own.

And here's some more worthless rabble about utterly nothing for which I just feel like typing about typing. Woot.

And as 'controversial' as presidentrich's comment may be, in terms of a cult pop culture reference, kudos. Bring on the Mad Max fun!

thespyderboy

Ugh, March 13 - Way too close to the dreaded, hated day that is March 15. This is just going to be terrible waiting for RE5 the way I waited for Brawl. The exception is that I'm going to be as excited for RE5 as I am scared of booting the game up. This trailer was excellent, can't wait.

TheDaftPunk

Zombies aren't supposed to bike

Freduardo

Is that Leo Dicaprio?

muppetsausages

@otimus: xD ooooops..you can play with the gamecube controller on the wii version?..*eats words*..lol..guess if i kept it long enough i'd figure that out..hahahaha..*is dumb* xD

evilralphwiggum

@Freduardo: Says who?

Because I think zombies are definitely supposed to bike. It's like Dawn of the Dead, only 100x more Xtreme.

Mit

This is going to be pretty epic...now with co-op! I nearly died when I heard the release date, hopefully it will be worldwide release.

DanteIX

This has been my reason for getting a 360 since I heard it was being made.

Herabec

Wow... that was fantastic - can't wait for this game.... looks seriously good
and that bike section does look insane!!

scuba2steve

ZOMBIE BIKERS OF DEATH.

Man, I've always wanted to say that.

It probably would have been (a lot) funnier if they were on choppers but wtf-ever.

Frank

I'm actually.....really disappointed. Sure, the graphics look fantastic and there's plenty of action, but the art direction has to be the worst in the entire series. Ohhh, a war-torn desert city environment! Where have we seen this before? If I was just shown footage of this without the game title, it could be mistaken for any other generic war game. The RE series used to be known for it's unique environments. Now it looks like just another gears of war/COD 4/Resistance/MGS4, except with zombies (and they don't even act like zombies!). At least the setting for RE4 was unique and interesting. Dammit, Capcom, you got me all excited with the original trailer with it's African environment, and then you go and do this. I hope that's just a small portion of the game and there is more variety that we aren't being shown yet.

TechRat

I love fiyawurks.

zaky

@Placentasaurus: They were (and still are) tremendous fun, says someone who only got into the series in the past couple of years and has been playing through them all very recently. There are occasions where the controls and camera angles make the game frustrating, but everything else (the limited ammo and saves, the inventory management, the exploration, the puzzles) are what define the series, and are a huge part of what I love about it.

RE4 made a lot of changes to the formula, but only the camera and the controls are unequivocal improvements. Everything else feels like they just threw the baby out with the bathwater - made a load of unnecessary changes that took the series too far away from its roots, as if this somehow equates to "progress". RE4 is a brilliant game and I'm glad they made it, but I'd dearly love for them to make another actual RE game with a similar engine.

MysteryPersonX

Like above people have stated, I don't pine for the horrible tank controls and bad camera the originals have, no more than I'd want to have PSX graphics for RE5.

What I was stating was that the "creatures" from RE4 and now 5, no longer feel like what zombies have always been classified as, ESPECIALLY from what the Resident Evil/Biohazard genre originally portrayed them as. You know what, I would even be willing to accept more agile zombies that could somehow sprint and climb over these goofy beanstalk sprouting zombies. They just feel so adverse and out of place to the whole genre that it should have been its own series based around Scientology.

In addition, the survival horror aspect seems so lost now that it feels like it will never be recovered. Before you got to play as people going into the unknown, not knowing the zombies were there, basically trying to get to safety with their necks intact once they realized that the dead were coming back to life. Now in RE4/5 its like you're going into a bear's den with a steak around your neck and a cattle prod to see if you can get mauled. The zombie infection doesn't seem to be massively spreading across the world (like most zombie genre stories portray a doomsday would be), and Chris and Leon seem perfectly content to be like: "Oh, zombie land? Yea its pretty cool. I'm going there on vacation next week. Want me to bring you back a t-shirt? Yea, the lines are pretty long, but I got a speedpass."

DashTheHand

Yet another game to add to my must have list, thats what, 20 games now.

Cheroro

@Mit: Its the standard Zombie-rule. They aren't smart enough to do things.

Freduardo

abso. amazing. can not wait for this one, looks like a thrill ride i haven't had since part 4, for realzzz

F22

game of the year? well, that's debatable, but it looks like it could be my personal fav. RE4 all over again, in the best possible way!

jcous

Omg that looks amazing. The visuals are fricken amazing. Capcom has really kicked ass this generation =)

NoahSteam

@Channing: You have to admit that a lot of the "atmosphere" of the first games was because of the horrifically clunky control style and the tiny inventory.

Aethyr

Actually i remember being genuinely freaked out at times during RE4... when you were stuck in that mid-air crate in the dark with that monster, and towards the end there's a part where you're walking up to a refrigerator and out comes a flaming zombie... closest I've ever been to shitting myself.

canceric09

i cant understand why nobody has mentioned in RE4 when that guy bursts out of the oven at you ON FIRE
...my first playthrough i nearly shat myself

thats what makes the new resident evil's scary in what i guess is more of a hollywood horror movie kinda style

arkbuilder

Knowing me, I'll actually like that dude who sounds eerily like Rattrap.

syrantking

Finally Resi returns to its roots: awesome, awesome voice acting.

McPoogle

That looked beautiful!

yashichi8bit

It looks like they just used the RE4 system and tweaked it a little bit. So it's just new environments with old gameplay system. :(

@Saint Anima: exactly!!!!
I want my old school RE games back [1,2, and 3]!!!!

xzentrico

So the complaints about RE5 come down to this:

1. It appears to be RE4 with better graphics, and that's bad.

2. It doesn't appear to be RE2 with better graphics, and that's bad.

mikemil828

Hmmm, hitting zombie black people may be fun for the redneck hicks down south, but not for me. Not that I have morals or I'm scared, just that I prefer the arcadey style of Dead Rising.

michaelleung