Seven minutes, seven minutes is all I can spare to play with you.
Resident Evil 5... was certainly something. It was a game I picked up with the intentions of playing with a friend and sadly was the first Resident Evil Game I owned and played through. My experience with the series before this was playing about ten minutes of Resident Evil 2 at a friends house. It was a game I ended up playing through twice, but the second playthrough knowing what to expect made the game slightly more enjoyable. For example on my second time through I made Sheeva an ammo bank. Seriously I’m not sure if it was just me, but it seemed like any time I gave her a weapon and some ammo she’d burn through it as fast as she could. If she wasn’t wasting ammo then she was standing in the way most of the time, probaly my least favorite A.I. out of any game. The story was interesting, but I found it forgetable, could be because I had never really played the series at this point. Chris was a cool character, beefy as hell and I lost my shit when he kidney punched that boulder at the end of the game. Also after awhile things begin to feel very repetative. Get cornered by some enemies, fight your way out, you and Sheeva take turn flipping some levers and switches. One thing I did like was the design of the game, the zombies or whatever you want to call them were really cool, visually speaking this game was an A+. Overall I found Resident Evil 5 to be an ok game, but that’s about it. I honestly wouldn’t touch it again unless Sheeva’s A.I. got fixed or I was playing co-op. From what I’ve heard it’s not the worst Resident Evil game, but it does appear to be far from the best. Gameplay: 3/10 Sound/Music: 6/10 Story: 5/10 Graphics: 7/10 Replayability: Low Overall: 21/40 [D]