Resident Evil 4

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6.9

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  1. pedazo
    Aug 29, 2023
    0
    It's shameful for Capcom to add post release microtransactions so journalists would over rate this game since MTX wasn't around until april 6th. Shame on capcom
  2. ahmedayad60
    May 19, 2023
    1
    If you would like to enjoy the game , play Chapter 11 , Luis and Leon Chapter , the rest is **** and the original Resident Evil 4 is way better , here Leon and Ashley are just couple of teenagers overreacting and overdoing to attract each other
  3. Aymeric
    Apr 8, 2023
    0
    It's shameful for Capcom to add post release microtransactions so journalists would over rate this game since MTX wasn't around until april 6th. Shame on capcom
  4. Craigster
    Apr 15, 2023
    3
    Bought Deluxe Edition just for OG soundtracks and they managed to remove serenity from save locations and made it just merchant theme. It's a good quality game but it's really kinda soulless and lacks of atmosphere. The only good merit of this game is graphics, most of the characters are generic and dull compared to the original, VA's are awful for the most part... This remake is boringBought Deluxe Edition just for OG soundtracks and they managed to remove serenity from save locations and made it just merchant theme. It's a good quality game but it's really kinda soulless and lacks of atmosphere. The only good merit of this game is graphics, most of the characters are generic and dull compared to the original, VA's are awful for the most part... This remake is boring and has no replayability, I beat it once and forgot about it.… Expand
  5. Wavew
    May 16, 2023
    3
    León ha pasado de ser el jodido John Wick, a moverse como un deficiente mental borracho.

    Es imposible entender la decisión de Capcom de ofrecerle al jugador del 2023 un personaje que cada vez que da dos pasos parece que se va a asfixiar. Todo el realismo y la inmersión del juego se va a la porra por este motivo. Entiendo que no es un "shotter" y que el uso de las armas tiene que ser    León ha pasado de ser el jodido John Wick, a moverse como un deficiente mental borracho.

    Es imposible entender la decisión de Capcom de ofrecerle al jugador del 2023 un personaje que cada vez que da dos pasos parece que se va a asfixiar. Todo el realismo y la inmersión del juego se va a la porra por este motivo.

    Entiendo que no es un "shotter" y que el uso de las armas tiene que ser algo mas complicado, pero que un policía de un cuerpo de elite tarde 2 días en apuntar a un "señor" que tiene delante es como para pedir el rembolso y olvidarse de esta basura.
    Por lo demás el juego se hace aburrido enseguida, solo lo puedo recomendar para fans del original.    … Expand
  6. Cyn3
    Mar 31, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. With the original Resident Evil 4 the team set out to make something new and allowed the game to take the shape it wanted to, they caught lightning in a bottle and history was made. Why Capcom thought they could do this twice is beyond me.

    Pros:

    -The combat actually feels good, the impact from your physical attacks respond well to the environment
    - I like how they improved the Gigante fight by having the dog do more doing the fight. He even stays after the fight so you can thank him personally. The goodest boi!
    - Luis is a more long term coop buddy allowing you to form a stronger bond with him
    - The Merchant
    - The improved shooting gallery
    - The Donkey Kong Mine cart section is way more fun
    - They expand on Krauser and Luis' backstories, for the better in my opinion.

    Cons:

    - U3 Boss fight from the original was cut
    - Remember when they removed all the jokes pertaining to Ashley's body and anything that remotely seemed like flirting from RE4VR? Well they did the same thing here and replaced them all with awful MCU quips, as is the style of the time.
    - Speaking of Ashley, Capcom is well aware of the public perception of the original Ashley and as a result they have over corrected to the point where the game tries to trick you in to thinking she's more useful by constantly having her spout dialogue like "We're a team! Right Leon?". Yes Capcom, we get it, we can't have a damsel in distress in stories anymore! If you looked anymore insecure I would think you didn't actually care and you wanted to increase your ESG score! (Fyi there was nothing wrong with Ashley in the original, you were just bad at the game!)
    - The voice acting is serviceable in most places but the voices for Krauser and Ada can't be described as anything else than terrible. Whoever was in charge of casting should be fired because I don't know how a blunder like that got past the radar.
    - The Castle while still present was shortened significantly from the original.
    - Separate Ways is paid DLC-- WHAT
    - Mercenaries not available at launch. Supposed to be a free update and I'm hoping against hope it's not a live service trap. (Hah!)
    - PC version has Denuvo

    In conclusion, game's not bad but it's not the new masterpiece critics and certain fans say it is. A good remake keeps the foundation of what made the original good and adds on to it, this is not what I see here. As I mentioned before the original was something new and it took the form it wanted to take, this one while it does some things better is also being held back by cutting out content and adhering to modern sensibilities to the point where it's embarrassed to be associated with the cheesiness and B movie fun of the original. If you really want to check this out and you haven't played the original yet I highly recommend playing the original first, it still holds up, it's on sale all the time and the HD project mod breathes new life in to the game that is so good it honestly makes this remake irrelevant. There really is no reason for this game to exist when we could have gotten a remake of Code Veronica instead.    … Expand
  7. Lynxes
    Apr 10, 2023
    0
    Not worth it.

    The game looks good, but hey it's 2023 and it's RE Engine, that much had to be expected, it also runs great! On an overclocked 4090 that is! The game is horribly unstable, crashes all the time, I had to replay the same parts multiple times because of the game crashing not near a type writer or a checkpoint, it may crash every 10minutes or every 2 hours, but it's a pain.    Not worth it.

    The game looks good, but hey it's 2023 and it's RE Engine, that much had to be expected, it also runs great! On an overclocked 4090 that is!

    The game is horribly unstable, crashes all the time, I had to replay the same parts multiple times because of the game crashing not near a type writer or a checkpoint, it may crash every 10minutes or every 2 hours, but it's a pain.

    The censorship was really unnecessary. It's a girl in a skirt and a couple jokes, just because a couple of people from twitter find them offensive now we gotta play a censored version of the game? We really need to dress Ashley more? What, are we back in 1800 where women couldn't show any skin or something? It's a videogame, not real life, and she doesn't even exist, so just leave her the way she was in the original, because yes those jokes and situations (that have been removed in the remake) where funny and gave the game part of it's personality, removing them makes the whole thing a bit more shallow.

    The lack of DLSS is the icing on the cake, I get it that the game is sponsored by AMD, but FSR sucks quality wise, it's looks like literal garbage. Even the little preview image in the settings where you have the toggle shows you an incredibly blurry image.
    There is a DLSS mod even though I had no luck with it, welp, thankfully I have a 4090, but if you don't do know that you can't enjoy max quality with DLSS thanks to AMD.

    Overall pretty disappointing, it's a watered down and more boring with less personality version of Resident Evil 4 with pretty graphics that crashes a lot of times.
    Don't buy this, and don't buy stuff that has been filtered by the Twitter Politically Correct Police, I did and regretted it.

    Update:
    A note that I have to add about voice acting.
    In my opinion almost everyone did a good job, but Ada was really subpar, Ada has a specific personality and her lines are meant to be read and played in a specific way, Lily Gao fails in doing this.
    Ada sounds bored, and rather than sounding like Ada it seems like she's trying to be Aloy from Forbidden West or any other generic wannabe bad female character, it's boring, repetitive, doesn't fit the character and quite frankly throws you off the immersion.

    Also, ignore those who discard negative reviews as **** trolls", no, those are legit complaints. The fact that some don't agree with it doesn't mean that who they don't agree with is a troll.    … Expand
  8. Jimbob2k666
    Apr 8, 2023
    3
    It's OK but is it really necessary? Won't be long now before we see a remake of a remake in this series. I think its time to lay this IP to rest.
  9. Ruboca
    Jul 15, 2023
    0
    Muito ruim, porcaria, lixo, completo desastre, ruim de mais, pior jogo, arrependimento
  10. frmetacriticfr
    Apr 9, 2023
    1
    This game doesn't support DLSS even though it came out for PC

    And this remake too followed the graphic resources of the original re4

    So even though it came out later than re8village, it is less sophisticated and messier than re8village's graphics.
  11. hellbard
    Mar 30, 2023
    0
    The "Resident Evil" for people who don't like Resident Evil. This is just a generic action game with hordes of enemies, non-stop combat and not a glimpse of "horror" after the first 10 minutes of gameplay.

    Once again, Resident Evil 4 is not Resident Evil. Both the original and the remake sucks if you're looking for what makes the original ones great.
  12. Federx
    Mar 31, 2023
    3
    this game did not need to exist.
    greed like this should never be encouraged
  13. TsukasaHiiragi
    Apr 15, 2023
    0
    Absolutely shameless to destroy RE4 legacy by adding microtransactions several weeks after release to avoid any backlash from consumers, Capcom should be ashamed of themselves.
  14. Procrustes
    May 15, 2023
    0
    I cant give a good score to a company that uses DRM malwares such as denuvo.
    Denuvo in, Wallet out.
  15. carnivorCactae
    Apr 26, 2023
    2
    Its a Resident Evil game for people who don't like Resident evil.

    Campy and unnatural dialogue (it was worse in the original, I get it), its not scary (besides maybe 3 short sections), its too easy and you'll never have enough ammo for the really fun weapons. The RE2-remake managed to elevate RE2 and build on its strengths. RE4 Remake on the other hand feels like life- and soulles    Its a Resident Evil game for people who don't like Resident evil.

    Campy and unnatural dialogue (it was worse in the original, I get it), its not scary (besides maybe 3 short sections), its too easy and you'll never have enough ammo for the really fun weapons.

    The RE2-remake managed to elevate RE2 and build on its strengths.
    RE4 Remake on the other hand feels like life- and soulles cashgrab.

    Not enough that players are robbed of 60 bucks, they are flat out forced to play with the Denuvo-Virus.

    The game itself is more of a horde-mode 3rd-person shooter with pretty annoying combat-mechanics and boring leveldesign.

    It runs well at least, despite of DENUVO, but I have zero motivation to replay it and was more or less relieved when the end-credits rolled (it isn't even a particularly long game. It just tries to pad the playtime with mini-games and collectibles).

    Wish I'd invested the money into Everspace 2 instead.    … Expand
  16. DaveAus
    May 5, 2023
    1
    A lazy remake, some texture look better. But content was removed, micro transactions were added and they censored stuff.
  17. Kunray
    Mar 30, 2023
    2
    It's your call but for now it's not recommended.
    1/10 this game at that stage.
    RE 4 Old The Best
  18. ColdSourCoffee
    Apr 2, 2023
    2
    I am disappointed by game play, music, art style, dialogue, voice actors, and cut content. The game cannot in any way be a replacement for the original 2005 version, and i doubt it will be remembered in a few months.
  19. zenobustra
    Apr 3, 2023
    0
    Controls are bad, shootings is bad, character models look bad, voice acting sounds bad, ton of cut content, a total disgrace to the original.
  20. aspseavra
    Apr 13, 2023
    0
    jogo filha da p..... de zerar no modo profissional essa desgraça mesmo com arma infinita não vai não da pra conseguir rank S+, o antigo era mais facil, desperdicei dinheiro e tempo de vida jogando essa merda.
  21. lalalalnznzn
    Apr 23, 2023
    2
    if it was new enmy, new area, new story it will be good game.
    but its remake and not a single thing change the gameplay change to RE6 similar one, thats the only major change, otherwise evertything just downgraded or removed
  22. Kboum
    Mar 31, 2023
    4
    nostalgie de 2004 mais qui ne reviens pas et encore en 2004 c'était moyen .
    Sans plus évité de le prendre au prix fort il ne le mérite clairement pas.
    Les notes presse sont fausse, ce jeu à tué la série avant l'arrivé du 7
  23. justagamerken
    Apr 4, 2023
    1
    downgraded voice acting and fsr 2.1 not well implemented in the game and the price is not justified for a 10 hour gameplay and has no replayability
  24. LeandroB
    Mar 31, 2023
    0
    I wish Capcom would stop making action games out of Resident Evil... I just want a good survivor horror.
  25. Vlad161
    Apr 25, 2023
    2
    Microtransactions must die

    Microtransactions, sometimes abbreviated as mtx, are a business model where users can purchase virtual goods with micropayments. Microtransactions are often used in free-to-play games to provide a revenue source for the developers.
  26. JasonMassaker
    Apr 28, 2023
    0
    Absolutely shameless to destroy Resident Evil 4 legacy by adding microtransactions several weeks after release. The Performance is good, but that is not enough.
  27. Redford234
    May 2, 2023
    1
    Overall,fails to live up to the hype and is a prime example of style over substance. It is a shallow and uninspired experience that left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. Save yourself the disappointment and invest your time and money elsewhere...
  28. no_thanks_bro
    Mar 27, 2023
    1
    Really disappointing, too much cut content in this game especially my favorite boss U-3 ,Its just RE3 in a different setting, same clunky controls, same boring weapon sounds and music, its just so lame compared to the original, the death scenes are trash, the blood is too much to fill the screen, and there are no chainsaw decapitations

    and also bad voice actors, especially Ada, Krauser,    Really disappointing, too much cut content in this game especially my favorite boss U-3 ,Its just RE3 in a different setting, same clunky controls, same boring weapon sounds and music, its just so lame compared to the original, the death scenes are trash, the blood is too much to fill the screen, and there are no chainsaw decapitations

    and also bad voice actors, especially Ada, Krauser, and Merchant T_T., the dialogue is trash, and Leon's character is very boring and too serious, with too many rendering delays, bugs, and a stressful AI, Where is assignment Ada? Where are the separate ways? This is an incomplete game!

    The camera is too close to be fighting El Gigante, the water visual against Del Lago is trash, the cinematography of the movie is very bad compared to the original, and the most stupid thing is that in this game you can kill Ashley, but they removed the word "women" which makes it non sense for censorship and also they cut other iconic words, what a lazy developer.    … Expand
  29. NAYKEN
    Mar 28, 2023
    2
    I don't think Capcom realized how difficult a job it was undertaking before this game came out. Make the best video game ever in history again. There are so many things to say before we start examining it that I don't know where to start. In the past, when asked a question about what would have happened if Re4 had been a terrible game, everyone would have said Re5. Now the answer to thisI don't think Capcom realized how difficult a job it was undertaking before this game came out. Make the best video game ever in history again. There are so many things to say before we start examining it that I don't know where to start. In the past, when asked a question about what would have happened if Re4 had been a terrible game, everyone would have said Re5. Now the answer to this question is Re4 remake. Everything about the original game has been made terrible. Let's move on to our review. Let's start with the mechanics. I want to mention the RE Engine, although this game engine was very bad, it didn't make itself noticeable from a woody camera angle like FPS, but when the Re2 remake came out, it slowly became clear how bad this game engine was. The feel of the hit and their physics were very bulky and unresponsive, but due to the structure of Re 2 remake, the zombies already had low artificial intelligence and were not very understood in this game either. The original game was such an active game that even when the remake demo came out, I saw that the RE engine could not withstand this active gameplay and how terrible the mechanics of the game made it. Enemies often don't react when they're hit The TPS camera angle is bad, no one expected it to be as good as the original game anyway, because the original game still has the best TPS mechanics and perspective ever, and there's been no equivalent, there's just been some close ones. Unfortunately, Re4 remake has become one of the games with the worst TPS mechanics ever. As for the gameplay, there is self-defense with a knife in the game, and it definitely doesn't work properly, most of the time you get hit by the enemy, and this raises your nerve level quite a lot. I would like to mention the boss fights, but I will give them a separate place at the end of the review. Now we can move on to the department designs. There are too many sections removed from the original game and it affects the fluency of the game a lot, the village where we started the game interpreted the original game in reverse and we are going the opposite way. As for the castle section, it feels very different from the original game, most of the places have been removed, most of them have been made of terrible designs, most of them feel like a huge empty box. There is nothing to mention in the island section, most of the places have been changed, just like the castle. Unlike the original game, the episode designs do not contribute to the mechanics of the game, soulless designs. Now there is something I want to mention in the original version of Re4. Atmosphere, ambience and music these three things made the ojrnial game one of the best horror games ever in history. Re 4 remake is a disgrace in this regard, even the remake has become a complete action game. Re4 remake is the same action game as Re5. The atmosphere, ambience and music have been completely removed, you are doing nothing but shooting enemies who are flocking to you, and the terrible TPS mechanics of the game make this situation even more difficult. The terrible music has been completely removed. If you play the game in its original sounds, these soundtracks come back, but the fact that the atmosphere of the game is a disgrace negatively affects these soundtracks as well. Now we can come to the boss designs that I mentioned at the beginning of the review. All the bosses in the game repeat the same movements, whose modified designs have become incredibly easy and simple, until the fight is over. Salazar, the krauser bosses have been radically changed and have become a disgrace, I don't even want to talk about salazar in particular. Tactical analysis in bosses, you just need to rain bullets on them with your removed weapons. The bosses show their weak points themselves. As I said, the other bosses are incredibly easy to either do the same moves or jump around, especially the last boss. In addition, one of the best and most iconic bosses of the game, U-3, has been removed from the game. Along with Verdigo, I strongly condemn the makers of the two scariest and most difficult bosses in the Resident evil series. The Verdigo boss is one of the most difficult bosses in the history of the game, you feel almost soulslike desperation, and now that this difficulty has been completely eliminated, you can rain all your bullets on Verdigo. There are a few things I would like to mention one last time. I want to talk about the character modeling of the game. In this game, the photorealistic character graphics continue, and all the characters look so terrible. Separate ways, Assignment Ada and mercenaries are not in the game. We came to the end of our review, the original game was the best game ever in history, Capcom couldn't handle it. If they had pushed a little harder, it would have been a game as outrageous as Re Village and Operation Raccoon City Re 4 remake. As for the rating of the game, 20/100… Expand
  30. CepheusAR7
    Apr 2, 2023
    0
    money grab by capcom, game is too expensive i'm not going to pay 60% of my montly salary for an game that didn't have to be remade, and ofcourse crapcom now puts effort in this but with re3r, which comes from a much better original game, unlike this one, they did a horrible game, from what i've seen from being a part of the speedrunning comunity and a fan of resident evil for more than 20money grab by capcom, game is too expensive i'm not going to pay 60% of my montly salary for an game that didn't have to be remade, and ofcourse crapcom now puts effort in this but with re3r, which comes from a much better original game, unlike this one, they did a horrible game, from what i've seen from being a part of the speedrunning comunity and a fan of resident evil for more than 20 years this game looks ok but it's still a re4... can't be better than the original and the original only had gameplay going in its favor, they **** the story up and this is where the series went downhill. 23k argentinian pesos is what they are asking for this game... i'd rather eat this month than buy this and go on a fast for 2 months...… Expand
  31. tunahan43
    Mar 30, 2023
    0
    fiyatı pahalı 15 saatlik bir oyun için aşırı pahalı değmez ada wongun yeni kıyafeti çöp tipi çöp salazarın yeni hali çöp
  32. AmberIsAQT
    Apr 7, 2023
    1
    They took an amazing game from 2005, cut out a lot of the heart and soul and barely bothered to optimize the game, the framerate is laughably bad on PC for me. (other better looking games run better for me)

    Worst of all, they put out this game out, waited for the reviews to come in from youtubers and publications, and only then did they add in a ubisoft level aggregious microtransaction    They took an amazing game from 2005, cut out a lot of the heart and soul and barely bothered to optimize the game, the framerate is laughably bad on PC for me. (other better looking games run better for me)

    Worst of all, they put out this game out, waited for the reviews to come in from youtubers and publications, and only then did they add in a ubisoft level aggregious microtransaction system where it costs real world money to upgrade your weapons.

    Some people might argue oh its not that bad, you can still beat the game without paying for any of the microtransactions, but like, the original didn't have any of that **** plus the mercenaries was included day 1 and separate ways was free if you bought the game on anything other than a GameCube.

    This is a remake that is worse than the game its remaking in most ways, so I consider it to be a failure at what's its trying to do. Please just go play the original RE4, it still holds up amazingly well and isn't gonna be pushing you to spend extra money to beat the game.    … Expand
  33. Illuminous
    Apr 5, 2023
    3
    I'll start off by saying that I've played all of the main entries into the residen evil franchise since they were released and I was devastated when I played the old RE4 (2005) when it was first released as it changed so drastically from a zombie survival game to a corridor-shooter without any care for creating a realistic environment. With that said, several years later with myI'll start off by saying that I've played all of the main entries into the residen evil franchise since they were released and I was devastated when I played the old RE4 (2005) when it was first released as it changed so drastically from a zombie survival game to a corridor-shooter without any care for creating a realistic environment. With that said, several years later with my disapointment sated I did replay the game and would score it higher than I did when first playing it.

    The remake of this game feels dated with the same corridor-shooting that worked perhaps 2005 but is far outdated today. The characters are bland and boring and the game is far too long for a game where almost nothing happens. The enemies are bland and boring except for a few encounters and the environments are not realistic at all. I fell in love with the RE2 remake since it took a concept and added a new layer to the police station that made it feel new yet the same. This game has none of that feeling.

    The only reason why it scores a 3 is because of the replayability and some of the changes made to the game compared to the 2005 version such as the removing of the most cringey coment and edgelord Leon moments. Still, can't recommend it as a Old-School RE fan as it brings much of the same that came to ruin the Survival Horror aspects of the franchise and gave us the more ridicoulus games that are RE5 and RE6.

    If you, however, enjoyed the 2005 version when it came out for its less focus on survival horror and more action-oriented approach I do think this game will be a 8-9 for you.    … Expand
  34. themandy
    May 26, 2023
    2
    nah nah. what is this?.. i got sick in my eyes playing this game lol. motion blur. what a weird intro of the game. the game might have good graphics but the whole intro story makes no sense..

    resident evil 2, 3 was way better. this feels cheap!
  35. DandyCrow
    Apr 4, 2023
    0
    Lily Gao isn't only a terrible, cringe, bland and unprofessional voice-actress (Ada deserved much more and much better), she's a disgusting, hypocritical, divisive and virtue signaling racist! American division of Capcom ruined a popular, beloved and iconic character like Ada Wong with a pathetic and terrible portrayal out of her character to give voice to a racist, and I'm sure they choseLily Gao isn't only a terrible, cringe, bland and unprofessional voice-actress (Ada deserved much more and much better), she's a disgusting, hypocritical, divisive and virtue signaling racist! American division of Capcom ruined a popular, beloved and iconic character like Ada Wong with a pathetic and terrible portrayal out of her character to give voice to a racist, and I'm sure they chose her basing merely on her ethnicity, that's racist and segregationist and against every principle of voice-acting! Please, fix this problem!… Expand
  36. NeuroShock
    Jun 22, 2023
    1
    This game is a complete downgrade from the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkWAxbLz6ME
  37. ArkAngel_97
    Mar 27, 2023
    0
    One of the best RE games hands down. Original is awesome and this and RE2 are probably my favorite RE games.
  38. DreadLordAvatar
    Jun 12, 2023
    0
    Loved the original on PS2, completed all the challenges including the Mercenaries mode, very difficult. Was planning to buy this latest remake but too many things stripped from the original and forcing cosmetics shop what a joke! Can’t believe game companies have gone completely insane with just squeezing money out of their customers. Blizzard, now Capcom. Terrible will never supportLoved the original on PS2, completed all the challenges including the Mercenaries mode, very difficult. Was planning to buy this latest remake but too many things stripped from the original and forcing cosmetics shop what a joke! Can’t believe game companies have gone completely insane with just squeezing money out of their customers. Blizzard, now Capcom. Terrible will never support these greedy corporate ever again.… Expand
  39. Hashmeag
    Jun 1, 2023
    0
    First of all, I would like to thank Capcom for the remake of this interesting game. And please, if you are going to lower the difficulty level of the game because of the presence of new gamers, this will harm the final quality of the game. Please don't reduce the difficulty of the game, thank you.
  40. davygravy93
    Mar 27, 2023
    0
    What a disgrace. Does not even come close to the original in any aspect and anyone claiming otherwise should be ashamed of themselves. Its re3 in a different setting, same clunky controls, same boring weapon sounds and music, its just so lame compared to the original.
  41. TheresNoDoubt
    Apr 4, 2023
    4
    Terrible art style, terrible characters models, bad graphics.

    Remember when Capcom used to have new games with massive graphics improvement? From RE2 to RE3 in the 90s, to 5 years later RE4 a game that was on a league of its own when it comes to RE games graphics and looked better than most games in its generation, and then doing it again with RE5 who looked better in every area than    Terrible art style, terrible characters models, bad graphics.

    Remember when Capcom used to have new games with massive graphics improvement? From RE2 to RE3 in the 90s, to 5 years later RE4 a game that was on a league of its own when it comes to RE games graphics and looked better than most games in its generation, and then doing it again with RE5 who looked better in every area than the RE games that came before. Now Capcom is trash when it comes to that, there's barely any difference from RE2 to RE4 remake, on top of that these new games have terrible art style like I said which makes things even worse, you can barely see anything in certain locations, and of course its because Capcom doesn't want us to look at the terrible RE Engine textures, extremely lazy.

    Leon and Ada are the same trash models from RE2. Original RE4 and RE6 Leon and Ada models are SO MUCH better. Remember when Capcom kept making new models for every new RE game but no one cared because they were all amazing? It's a good thing to have the same models returning but only when they are good, the thing is that Leon and Ada from RE2 are trash. Luis and Wesker models are trash too. They took everything that made those characters cool.

    The voice of acting of those characters are also terrible. RE voice acting was great in the late 2000s, back when every character looked and sounded memorable. What happened? We know using the same things again isn't a issue for Capcom, as they have been using many of the assets they created for RE7 in every single new RE game, and that's why the new RE games look so cheap. So why not use the same voice actors from the past? Those cheap **** are trying to save as much money as possible, no wonder most of the new RE games are mostly just a copy and paste. Same trash art style for every single new RE game, same trash character models, same assets for 4 games in a row. But they can't bring back the voices that made those characters popular, no, that's too much for them. Maybe they are trying to save money with that too, and it's less expensive to bring new people to do the voice acting, who knows.

    But of course dudes are giving 10 to this trash, because they don't understand gaming. This is just the new generation, the same dogs who think Fortnite is good, they don't know when a game is actually good because they haven't played any.

    Gun sounds are terrible. Amount of cut content are terrible. Leon movement animations are terrible.

    Leon in the original was extremely stylish like Dante, literally every single animation of Leon was created to make him as stylish and cool as possible, which suited his personality very well. Now Leon personality is changed to worse, and theres literally 0 stylish things about him, even the spinning kick looks dumb as **** but his movement is just the worst.

    This game is going to be hyped for about 2 months and then everyone is going to forget about it, it will never be a classic that people kept playing for 20 years like the original.    … Expand
  42. Spassbremse
    Mar 25, 2023
    4
    It gets a few points for the nice new coat of paint and a few gameplay tweaks, but that's all this game has going for it. It's just an imposter wearing the skin of a better game. Let's break down a few things:

    Tone: The tone of RE4 was one that perfectly balanced action and b-movie horror camp. Leon was a seasoned special ops veteran years after the events of RE2. He was smart,    It gets a few points for the nice new coat of paint and a few gameplay tweaks, but that's all this game has going for it. It's just an imposter wearing the skin of a better game. Let's break down a few things:

    Tone:
    The tone of RE4 was one that perfectly balanced action and b-movie horror camp. Leon was a seasoned special ops veteran years after the events of RE2. He was smart, sassy, a bit of a flirt, but still took his job seriously. Several of his iconic lines from the original are here in this game...but their delivery falls completely flat because they are being delivered by RE2-Remake Leon, not RE4 Leon. And that shift in character and tone /fundamentally/ changes everything about this game. RE2-Remake Leon is a boring misery guts, and that tone carries over here, ruining the vibe that defined RE4.

    Dialogue:
    Many of the famous Leon sassy lines from RE4 are here, but again they don't fit with this version of Leon. It feels forced, and I hate that feeling. Additionally Luis' slightly flirtatious, lecherous character has been completely sanded off. In RE4 he makes a passing remark about Ashley's chest...which she rightfully calls him out for and chews him out. Removing Ashley's agency and removing this dialogue from the game removes these fun character moments. There's also dialogue removed where Ashley offers herself to Leon after everything they've been through, giving a lead female character a nice bit of sexual agency that the remake takes away. Leon turns her down of course, he's a professional and not a perv, and it was nice to see that interaction play out realistically and maturely. There's just so much character and sass from the original game that seems to have been sanded off somewhere along the way.

    Color:
    This may be a petty complaint, but...all the RE engine games are really dark and look washed out in their environment design. The original, while mostly awash with browns and greens, was still brightly lit and looked dynamic due to great art direction. The RE4-Remake environments certainly look more detailed, but everything just looks too cluttered and dark. There's something about the design for many of the REmakes in the RE Engine that just does not work for me. It lacks...vibrancy and sense of artistic variation. This leaves environments just feeling monotonous somehow.

    Gameplay:
    I don't understand the decision to add meaningless busywork to RE4-Remake. The original had lots of optional short bonus objectives for money, but those were quick and usually just for extra collectibles (completely optional). In the RE4-Remake, there are way too many "go here kill 3 rats" / "backtrack into another area and break something" side missions. They feel like open world busywork, and it feels like you /have/ to do them because the loot system in the remake is so much stingier with quality drops.

    Character Models:
    Like...there are a few characters I think that are actually as good as RE4 or better in the remake (Hunnigan and Mendez look terrific), but Ashley looks like Leon with a longer, stupider haircut. Salazar looks /atrocious/. Saddler looks...okay albeit bland. Again, RE4 even with its limited graphics gave these characters such life and personality with good art direction, but the stiff, awkwardness of the RE Engine models just look...like ****

    It's a fine way to play RE4 if that's all you want...but it's not as good as the original. Not even remotely close.    … Expand
  43. Redeagle67
    Aug 14, 2023
    1
    Bland and soulless despite having the best material they remake is just another cash grab like re 3 remake,unlike re 2 remake this re 4 is just bad

    now I know why people said there no soul in this remake, new Ashley is better but the rest is just downgraded especially leon ada and salazar Atmosphere and song in game is trash,why they can't make it better despite having 20 years more    Bland and soulless despite having the best material they remake is just another cash grab like re 3 remake,unlike re 2 remake this re 4 is just bad

    now I know why people said there no soul in this remake, new Ashley is better but the rest is just downgraded especially leon ada and salazar

    Atmosphere and song in game is trash,why they can't make it better despite having 20 years more advantage?? Lazy    … Expand
  44. delifiske
    Sep 6, 2023
    0
    this games optimization is trash !!! Capcom should have better optimization.Its a shame.
  45. lema_hona
    Jun 24, 2023
    0
    Great gameplay, great soundtrack, great animation, and great story too! This game has it all! I wish this world was real though. :(
  46. HIRBOD
    Sep 4, 2023
    0
    best resident evil ever !
    best resident evil ever !
    best resident evil ever !

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Universal acclaim - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 23
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  1. Riot Pixels
    Aug 8, 2023
    75
    Resident Evil 4 is a good remake. It is not as creative as RE 2 reincarnation, and it follows the original too diligently, but it still looks very decent.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 4, 2023
    88
    As far as remakes go, Resident Evil 4 is very solid, but very safe, to the point of losing some of the original’s spark. Early RE games used to be unashamedly goofy, and RE4R seems to be afraid of that legacy. [page 64]
  3. GameCritics
    Apr 7, 2023
    90
    Resident Evil 4 is a truly fantastic remake of an already-stellar title. Some of the omissions, tweaks and changes do mean that it’s a perfect complement to the original experience rather than a replacement, but this is about as fine an update to a classic as one could possibly hope for.
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