Resident Evil 4: Ultimate HD Edition

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8.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 981 Ratings

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  1. genchev
    Jun 22, 2015
    3
    The game looks very nice and interesting, but the controls just killed it for me. The mouse is terrible and you can't control the character right. It's another disappointing ps remake...
  2. PrincessRose
    Mar 25, 2020
    4
    Terrible game, the controls are so janky feels like Iam trying to control a tank and not a person. Besides that I could not play for long as it was giving me terrible motion sickness, probably because textures look so drab and brown and movement is terrible.
  3. Tangurl
    Jun 16, 2020
    0
    I've tried this game many times, but I just couldn't find myself comfortable with the controls. The controls is horrendous, absolutely unplayable for me. I have played Re1 HD, Re2 Remake, Re3 remake and Re7. I like this franchise but for this game maybe I'll pass.
  4. ThecriticGoD
    Mar 23, 2016
    4
    I really don't understand what makes this game special for so many people. To me, it marks the point where resident evil starts going downhill, it's no longer about clever puzzles and being low on health and ammo and feeling the next step could very well be your last, instead this is more like a shooter were you are just shooting all the time against 1000 dudes on the outside, no fear, noI really don't understand what makes this game special for so many people. To me, it marks the point where resident evil starts going downhill, it's no longer about clever puzzles and being low on health and ammo and feeling the next step could very well be your last, instead this is more like a shooter were you are just shooting all the time against 1000 dudes on the outside, no fear, no horror, no anything, just shooting and shooting. And they even add a shop? What the hell, is this resident evil or Counter strike? The game kinda starts to get boring after the first two massacres. Also, you have "over the shoulder" perspective but the character moves like in old resident evils, it's SOOOO unintuitive.

    To finish, something really annoying was he fact that the action takes place in Spain and the voice actors are clearly speaking mexican dialect, it makes me feel the game is kind of a joke, they didn't even research anything about the place the game was taking place in?

    Overall, mediocre game and the PC port sux, even if graphically it's kinda nice even if it's old and the storyline is good despite the mexican thing kinda taking away the immersion I can't rate it more than 4.    … Expand
  5. Gfunk839
    Mar 27, 2014
    2
    This is another **** port. Fps always drop at crucial moments leaving you with massive input lag leading to many cheap deaths. This is some B.S , be ashamed crapcom.
  6. Silvervox325
    Mar 14, 2014
    1
    Wonderful game. However, it crashes so often that it's almost unplayable - I've attempted all possible graphics settings to no avail. None of the support links work - I get redirected to a Ubisoft (who produced this game) page that no doesn't exist. If they fix the many, many bugs I'll give this a good review. As of now, I'm angry that I spent $20 on an unplayable game.
  7. Dunge
    Apr 17, 2014
    3
    Menus still suck, bad aspect ratio, controls on the gamepad are illogical. Game might have a good story and such but it's barely playable. All other recent RE games are much better.
  8. AndreRLZ
    Jul 31, 2015
    4
    Non è esattamente ciò che mi aspettavo. Non avendo mai giocato a nessun Resident Evil, pensavo si trattasse di un gioco ricco di atmosfera e che facesse abbastanza paura, o comunque che fosse un gioco ricco di suspense (ho giocato poco, è vero, ma ho già beccato i primi 2 o 3 """colpi di scena""" che avrebbero dovuto farmi paura o avrebbero dovuto stupirmi, ma vuoi l'audio vuoi leNon è esattamente ciò che mi aspettavo. Non avendo mai giocato a nessun Resident Evil, pensavo si trattasse di un gioco ricco di atmosfera e che facesse abbastanza paura, o comunque che fosse un gioco ricco di suspense (ho giocato poco, è vero, ma ho già beccato i primi 2 o 3 """colpi di scena""" che avrebbero dovuto farmi paura o avrebbero dovuto stupirmi, ma vuoi l'audio vuoi le animazioni e soprattutto i versi dei personaggi che sembrano frasi in spagnolo ripetute all'infinito sempre uguali identiche, nah). Questo gioco invece è più uno splatterone abbastanza ignorante, con un fight system anche simpatico. Non sarebbe niente male comunque, se questa versione per PC uscita nel 2014 fosse ... una versione PC degna del 2014. La telecamera è orribile, è fissa e NON si può muovere il personaggio e allo stesso tempo muovere la telecamera (cosa che secondo me è essenziale in questo gioco). Il sistema di mira è scadente, non è sempre facile mirare correttamente e si sbaglia spesso, non è centrato. Per cambiare l'arma occorre accedere al'inventario! Si avete letto bene, occorre premere TAB, selezionare l'arma, premere E, premere EQUIPAGGIA e riperemere TAB! Che bello! Considerato quanto spesso torna utile cambiare arma fare questa cosa 50 volte a sessione di gioco è stupido e ridicolo. Non si può regolare il field of view, che è bassissimo. Non si può giocare in prima persona. Non puoi schivare. Muoversi in battaglia è un'agonia, è scomodo. La UI è brutta persino per un gioco della sua età, potevano benissimo rimpicciolire le scritte e renderla al "passo coi tempi". Navigare nel menù è scomodo. Praticamente fare ogni cosa in questo gioco va da "un pochetto scomodo" a "mamma miaaaaa". Sconsigliata questa versione. Forse su PS2 o Gamecube nel 2005 meritava, anzi, effettivamente capisco il successo che ebbe 10 anni fa. Ma se mi riproponete una versione HD nel 2014, su PC, a pagamento, fatela per bene Cristo.… Expand
  9. bulletstorm2304
    Oct 30, 2014
    3
    This is a port of a game from the xbox 360
    the options menu is terrible not supporting most 16:9 resoloutions and barely anything of substance.
    its not optimized for anything but high end nvidia cards. I have a amd 7480D gpu and a amd A4-5300B so i can barely play a game that honestly looks like crap at 15 frames on a good pc that can run skyrim 30 fps on high. This is better then the    This is a port of a game from the xbox 360
    the options menu is terrible not supporting most 16:9 resoloutions and barely anything of substance.
    its not optimized for anything but high end nvidia cards.
    I have a amd 7480D gpu and a amd A4-5300B so i can barely play a game that honestly looks like crap at 15 frames on a good pc that can run skyrim 30 fps on high.
    This is better then the prevouis port but this is still a crap port.    … Expand
  10. BendyWendy
    Jul 12, 2019
    1
    RE 4 is a great game.... if you're playing any other version. This port is not optimized for any hardware past what the best was at the release.

    It has gotten to a point where a PC can be too good for this port, causing it to lag at the simplest of things. Are you trying to tell me my PC can run PAYDAY 2 at most of it's highest settings without a single frame-drop, but at the same time    RE 4 is a great game.... if you're playing any other version. This port is not optimized for any hardware past what the best was at the release.

    It has gotten to a point where a PC can be too good for this port, causing it to lag at the simplest of things. Are you trying to tell me my PC can run PAYDAY 2 at most of it's highest settings without a single frame-drop, but at the same time can't manage to keep a consistent frame-rate in RE 4 on fixed 30 fps, lowest shadow settings, and original textures each time I fire one of the shotguns?

    Not to mention 9 times out of 10 the game will lag during a cutscene, but the audio will continue as if it wasn't, meaning SUPER desynced audio.

    The only thing I can say good about this port is some of it's controls. The rest of the controls are complete **** and beyond reasoning. The few that make sense are changeable, but the ones that don't and will probably no longer be supported in the near future are unchangeable. Who at the dev team thought it was a good idea to make PAGE DOWN the unchangeable button to rotate items in inventory?

    Don't buy this version of the game. If you want a version that runs and has mouse-like aiming, buy the Wii version.    … Expand
  11. sulaco426
    Feb 17, 2022
    3
    This was the point of the franchises downfall. resident evil 4 is the second worst game of the franchise, followed by 8.
  12. Sawa_
    Jun 1, 2020
    0
    This game is good,but QTE are horrible.I deleted it because of them.Screw you,capcom
  13. GODSPEED7
    Oct 25, 2021
    2
    This is an honest review, devoid of any nostalgia for ANY of the Resident Evil games and with a much more subjective approach as a study in the series.

    I am always surprised by the high scores this game gets... ...it's as if everyone wants Resident Evil to NOT BE Resident Evil! I started playing Resident Evil as an adult, out of curiosity for the series, and to really delve into the    This is an honest review, devoid of any nostalgia for ANY of the Resident Evil games and with a much more subjective approach as a study in the series.

    I am always surprised by the high scores this game gets...
    ...it's as if everyone wants Resident Evil to NOT BE Resident Evil!

    I started playing Resident Evil as an adult, out of curiosity for the series, and to really delve into the lore, characters and stories. I can see how the series suffered a serious split between Resident Evil 1-3 and Resident Evil 4. I believe there is an explanation and there is a reason for this.

    Resident Evil 1-3 are more of your classical horror games, in style, writing and theme. Resident Evil 4 decided to take a turn towards a way more casual style of horror and was aimed at a much younger audience than the Original 3.

    Eventhough the beginning gives off a nice strong horror vibe, you quickly realize that this is just a facade as the game quickly turns to its way more casual horror style. They tried to give the horror aspect through the first few village levels with "zombified"/mind controlled villagers and a few that have tentacles that come out of their heads.. this is where 'HORROR' stops and it's true face reveals itself.

    So here, we are presented with a main villain that will act very much like a villain does in children's television shows and movies. They spout these very simplistic one-liners and have that very childish laugh that goes somethign like: "I dare you to find me, MUhahahaha!" and then Leon will answer something like: "AAAAhhh... this is NOT the last of me!". Throughout the ENTIRE game, this is the level of dialog between your main protagonist and the main villain.

    I realize Resident Evil can come off as a little campy sometimes, but this is such a departure from its roots, I am still puzzled to this day as to how this game can score so high.

    Dialog is also far from the only thing that I believe was changed for a younger audience; we can take the level design. We went from the originals puzzle-based locations that require a little thinking, memorization and "planning" to an extremely simplistic linear level design where you do not need to think at all.

    Some of the levels (especially around the castle) seriously become something similar to what you find in your very basic platformer-styled game. You've got cannons on a castle shooting at itself (at you), because it makes a lot of sense for a castle to have cannons that shoot itself? ..and a huge statue that actually destroys the castle itself.. but the thing is, the statue was pretty much built to kill you. Seriously?! Yes.. SERIOUSLY!

    I mean, I'm trying to stay level-headed here, but we go from the original games that is somewhat more based into a fictitious "reality" where at least buildings and locations are somewhat believable to the level design you find in kids games.. here? none of that! Let's make level designs to impress little kids!

    It doesn't even end there.. most of your typical enemies are even pretty subpar for what I would consider "good" foes in video games. Sure, okay it's an old village, you do expect some more old-school tendencies.... but shields and flails? and Genetic Engineering......

    I'm not even certain how to keep my cool writting this review as the more I think about this game, the more I find it bizarre that this is a game that is highly praised.

    Did the fanbase of this game never even play a Resident Evil game before? Where they so young when they played this that this seemed like such a mature game?

    I'm at a loss and I'm not certain where and how this game can even get high ratings when it's at an all-time low when you compare to the games the preceded it.

    Resident Evil 4 is when Resident Evil lost itself and became a milked franchise. It even makes the live-action movies seem like pure art!    … Expand
  14. Masterchief1572
    Feb 1, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First of all, Resident evil 4 is a good game for its period, but it is too old to be played in 2022, the weapon mechanics are very difficult and ASHLEY IS A VERY STUPID CHARACTER.… Expand
  15. silverQ1
    Sep 11, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Remaster is a waste of time , overrated, boring game , the graphics were bad , the controls are terrible, probably because textures look so drab and brown , the ending was very predictable , ending was disappointed.… Expand

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#79 Best PC Game of 2014
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Ragequit.gr
    May 14, 2014
    60
    Sadly the final score has to be lower than originally expected, at least until the developers can fix the issues. Resident Evil 4: Ultimate HD Edition is essentially the great PC version we've been waiting for all these years, it is priced quite reasonably and, under normal conditions, I would recommend the game wholeheartedly to fans of the series and newcomers alike, but not until all the bugs have been squashed. Until then, keep your money in your pockets.
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  2. DarkStation
    Apr 29, 2014
    90
    If you haven’t played Resident Evil 4, it’s still absolutely worth playing. It’s a definite classic that stands along with the likes of Half Life 2 as one of the best games of its generation.
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  3. Gaming Nexus
    Apr 24, 2014
    88
    Resident Evil 4 is still one of the best games ever made, but less-than-ideal mouse and keyboard controls and a barely noticeable texture upgrade keep this PC port from being the ultimate version of this masterpiece that it could have been.
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