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Resident Evil 4 vs. Resident Evil 5
- March 19, 2009 11:56 AM PST
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Round One: Protagonists
Resident Evil 4
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Leon Kennedy's more than a match for RE4's Los Illuminados, with moves that really show what the Secret Service is made of. It's just too bad that he spends so much of the game saddled with Ashley Graham. Even though the First Daughter follows Leon's commands flawlessly and knows how to run-and-hide, Ashley's pretty much dead weight (she can't even carry ammo).
Resident Evil 5
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As the original zombie killer of the RE series, Chris Redfield returns to the spotlight as a real one-man army, especially now that he's sporting biceps the size of Montana. Chris is a definite powerhouse on his own, but sidekick Sheva Alomar is huge breath of fresh air for co-op gameplay in general. Sheva fights like a ninja, collects ammo and items on the fly without getting lost, and most importantly, she always has your back covered.
THE WINNER: Resident Evil 5
Babysitting a whiny sidekick isn't much use when you're fighting cultists, cranky villagers and chainsaw wielding hobos. Resident Evil 5 takes the first round, thanks to Sheva's mad skills. (And a steroid-pumped Chris.)
Round Two: Story
Resident Evil 5
From start to finish, Resident Evil 5 lays on the action like a seven-layer dip filled with dynamite. Over the course of a day, Chris and Sheva's straightforward mission of gunning down weapon dealers escalates awesomely (and predictably) into a full-scale investigation of Tricell and their massive army of bio-weapons stock piled in the heart of Africa. Even though it's exciting and filled with more gunfire than a Die Hard flick, the huge, mysterious plot twist at the end isn't much of a surprise.
Resident Evil 4
Thinking that the Raccoon City incident is nuclear dust, a simple rescue mission ruins Leon Kennedy's day as he learns the kidnappers aren't just some weird European cult. Starting with exploring the ramshackle Spanish villages, Leon eventually fights his way into the gruesome facilities used to engineer the Las Plagas parasites. With plenty of mysteries (was Ada Wong on your side?), plot twists (like being implanted with the Las Plagas), and creepy suspense building up throughout the game, Resident Evil 4 is one thriller of a story from start to finish.
THE WINNER: Resident Evil 4
While introducing a whole new cinematic style to the series, RE4 keeps players guessing with unsolved plot elements and constant surprises. Hunting down the Los Illuminados leaders and learning where the heck the Las Plagas came from makes RE4 both tense and interesting to the end.
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- Mar 18 2009 at 03:00:48:PM PST
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resident evil 4 better graphics because it was on a gamecube, which is supposedly had the weakest hardware last gen.
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The bonus graphics round doesn't really fit into this. RE 4 was from last gen, and lets face it the Wii version had pretty much the same graphics. But I'm happy RE 4 won overall, because I think Leon is so much more badass than Chris, and Ada is way better than Sheva.
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Man i was a dumb ass and sold my RE 4 wii edition....now i wish i had it back :[
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The_Pig wrote:
The real question is: Ada or Sheva?
Ada, but that's partially because of tradition.
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RE4 is the only game in a very long time that i have actually played through multiple times. God bless her heart.
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l0mbada wrote:
resident evil 4 better graphics because it was on a gamecube, which is supposedly had the weakest hardware last gen.
PS2 had the weakest hardware
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Really? You guys compared the multiplayer of the two when one didn't even have multiplayer? And how did RE5 win best monsters? The majority of the monsters in RE5 were incredibly similar to those in RE4 and were done in a much better fashion in RE4.
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