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  1. Aug 11, 2023
    6
    6.8. Funny with a friend. A big letdown compared to others, too much arcade-y
  2. Jul 19, 2023
    6
    Gameplay - 6
    Plot & Characters - 6
    Storytelling - 6
    Pacing - 8
    Music & Sound - 7
    Replayability - 5
    Performance - 10
  3. Jun 18, 2023
    6
    this game is resident evil 4 but 70% worse everything u loved in resident evil 4 like the level encounters boss fights inventory enemy desings and levels is way worse in this game its very dissapointing game
  4. Jun 2, 2023
    6
    Its an okay easy coop action game, but a terrible Resident Evil, no atmosphere, no charm at all.
    While Ashley was a cute damsel that followed-stayed out of your way and basically was your main goal, Sheva is an infuriating useless braindead AI partner that gets on your way every single opportunity she can, and i mean it, she will physically block you from running when you need to,
    Its an okay easy coop action game, but a terrible Resident Evil, no atmosphere, no charm at all.
    While Ashley was a cute damsel that followed-stayed out of your way and basically was your main goal, Sheva is an infuriating useless braindead AI partner that gets on your way every single opportunity she can, and i mean it, she will physically block you from running when you need to, stand in front of you while you are trying to aim, or die to the last infected and make you restart the whole level, all this for a character that serves no purpose in the story at all, might as well just been a guide that gets killed in the first stage.
    Every transition in this game is awful because you have to either wait for Sheva to open doors or its some stupid movie that gives you no sense of continuity, the levels are small and streamlined, the whole thing had the coop as the main focus.
    While Leon had personality, Chris doesnt, they ruined this in RE4 remake too.
    While every other Resident Evil was set at night in some place with great architecture, this is set in some sunny **** with nothing interesting to look at.
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  5. Apr 22, 2023
    7
    Как боевичок игра норм, как резик - хрень) Никакой гнетущей мрачной атмосферы, из элементов выживания остался лишь крафт травки (и то одного типа), игра стала более коридорной, вместо харизматичного торговца из четверки теперь просто менюшка с магазином. Управление перекочевало из прошлой части почти без изменений, для 2009 года смотрится весьма устаревше. Добавили кооп, в котором игратьКак боевичок игра норм, как резик - хрень) Никакой гнетущей мрачной атмосферы, из элементов выживания остался лишь крафт травки (и то одного типа), игра стала более коридорной, вместо харизматичного торговца из четверки теперь просто менюшка с магазином. Управление перекочевало из прошлой части почти без изменений, для 2009 года смотрится весьма устаревше. Добавили кооп, в котором играть всегда веселей, хотя и в соло игра проходится без напряга: бот-напарник звезд с неба не хватает, но стреляет довольно точно, вовремя подхилит и не путается по ногами. Геймплей в целом не претерпел изменений, разве что стал более экшоновым. Инвентарь небольшой, без возможности апгрейда, это большой минус, а выброшенные итемы тут же пропадают. В плане графики выглядит хорошо, постановка роликов крутая. Сюжетец традиционно сумбурный, опять новые типы вирусов, опять биоугроза мирового масштаба. Но да Вескера лайк, мужик мега харизматичный и хотелось побольше роликов с ним.
    Короче, неплохо, в коопе вообще хорошо.
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  6. Mar 11, 2023
    6
    Нудно, неудобно, крайне бесячий ИИ у напарника. Плюс сломанный на ПК босс, которого невозможно убить так, как это задумывалось.
  7. Dec 22, 2022
    7
    I'm finishing it for the 2nd time. I played 8-9 years ago. Since I loved Resident Evil 4 so much, I guess I liked 5 in those years. But when I played it now, I saw that it was at least as bad as the 6th game. And I understand the bad reviews now. The fact that there was a lot of action in the game did not piss me off that much, leaving the RE formula that we know. It's the ridiculous bossI'm finishing it for the 2nd time. I played 8-9 years ago. Since I loved Resident Evil 4 so much, I guess I liked 5 in those years. But when I played it now, I saw that it was at least as bad as the 6th game. And I understand the bad reviews now. The fact that there was a lot of action in the game did not piss me off that much, leaving the RE formula that we know. It's the ridiculous boss designs that really piss me off. Let's talk about bosses;
    1_) First boss I think "uroboros" : We need to burn it in the oven, right? I put it in the oven and blast its weak points, but the boss just doesn't stop. And when I get out of the oven and try to press the button, it's already out of the oven. I struggled a lot. Turns out, it was necessary to roll out of the oven just as the door was closing. How would I know that the first time? I found it difficult.
    2_) U-8 Spider: It's a boss I'd probably struggle with for hours if I didn't remember it the first time I played it. You have to take granade in your hand and you have to throw it into the mouth of the boss while you have it. Of course, for this you need to drop the boss first. How many players can easily understand that a bomb is going to be thrown into the boss's mouth?
    3_) (5-2) Uroboros: We've come to the worst boss. You see what is written on the internet, most people think this boss is a "bug". Maybe it was at the time. Killing the boss is pure torture. If you don't know what to do at first, all your bullets run out and a lot of your time is wasted. That's what happened to me. I spent about 1 hour. I blast the Boss' weak points. They're out again. I burn it again nothing happens. I was finally able to kill it randomly. I do not know how? Too bad.
    4_) Wesker: The first phase is very bad. You have to turn off the lights. If you don't know at first, the rocket fired by wesker kills you in one hit. I tried to kill Wesker with a rocket. It hit at first and I blew it up. It eluded all of the next at least 10 rockets. I do not know how. However, he couldn't see me, I was in the dark. Anyway, I was finally able to kill it with the sniper. A very frustrating long boss fight. I could remember it because I played it for the first time in the 2nd phase again. Otherwise I wouldn't know what to do. Should I run from the boss or shoot? Well, we're back on the hill. We are fighting head-to-head. Again, all my bullets are gone. Another very long boss fight. Annoying.
    As for the good sides of the game; Overall the story is good. Weapons are diverse. Controls are better than game 4. That's all I have to say. I hope Capcom doesn't make games like games 5 and 6. Let them make remakes. Games 7 and 8 are very good. Let them continue like this.
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  8. Oct 16, 2022
    6
    This game moved away from survival horror more to arcade shooter. For me it was a dissapointment since RE4 was a good game.
  9. Sep 11, 2022
    6
    RE 5 is good action game in overall, BUT! It has really bad controls, like seriously... you can’t move while reloading or shooting and you can be easily smashed in da face by something, that will almost kill you, if you’re not keeping proper distance from enemy. Next thing is, you can’t run backwards or to the sides, you can just walk, which is also pretty annoying. You have to move yourRE 5 is good action game in overall, BUT! It has really bad controls, like seriously... you can’t move while reloading or shooting and you can be easily smashed in da face by something, that will almost kill you, if you’re not keeping proper distance from enemy. Next thing is, you can’t run backwards or to the sides, you can just walk, which is also pretty annoying. You have to move your mouse to rotate the character and then press W to get moving. Overall movement is incomprehensibly weird. Why? I have no idea.
    And last thing is your mostly annoying partner, who likes to get in your way, while you trying to kill some of these experiments and you waste your precious bullets.
    Almost forgot to mention: One boss fight is extremely infuriating, long and boring.
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  10. Mar 9, 2022
    7
    Admittedly, I had fun with how over-the-top Resident Evil 5 was during my playthrough. But it hides no intention of becoming an action game - a new direction that clashes so detrimentally with its legacy control scheme and clunky horror design.
  11. Jan 27, 2022
    6
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  12. Dec 18, 2021
    5
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  13. Jul 5, 2021
    7
    - RESIDENT EVIL 5 -

    Ambientación --> 7 Escenarios --> 7 Narrativa --> 6 Personajes --> 6 Dificultad --> 7 Jugabilidad --> 7 Mecánicas --> 6 Gráficos --> 8 Innovación --> 7 Contenido --> 6 Errores o bugs --> 8 Plano artístico --> 6 - TIPS - Defrauda en muchísimos sentidos en comparación a su anterior entrega. Básicamente no incluyen mecánicas u opciones nuevas obviando el modo
    - RESIDENT EVIL 5 -

    Ambientación --> 7 Escenarios --> 7
    Narrativa --> 6 Personajes --> 6
    Dificultad --> 7 Jugabilidad --> 7
    Mecánicas --> 6 Gráficos --> 8
    Innovación --> 7 Contenido --> 6
    Errores o bugs --> 8 Plano artístico --> 6

    - TIPS -
    Defrauda en muchísimos sentidos en comparación a su anterior entrega. Básicamente no incluyen mecánicas u opciones nuevas obviando el modo cooperativo. La historia es aburrida y tanto los personajes como los escenarios están poco pulidos. Si que es verdad que aparentemente el modo cooperativo con el que cuenta esta quinta entrega de la saga puede echarte un poco atrás a la hora de jugarlo pero creo que finalmente esta bien implementado y no se hace molesto en ningún momento. Aun así habiendo jugado a otras entregas de la saga Resident Evil esta entrega defrauda en comparación a lo que nos tiene acostumbrados Capcom con esta saga.
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  14. Jun 16, 2021
    7
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  15. May 26, 2021
    7
    This game reminds me of my childhood, what a great time, it was nice playing with my friends again and having a time like no other playing mercenaries. BUT PLEASE DAMN Having Sheva as a partner was horrendous. It felt like she was programmed to do whatever you needed her to do and take LONGEST possible path while doing it. Due to its day time appearance and lack of variety in locations IThis game reminds me of my childhood, what a great time, it was nice playing with my friends again and having a time like no other playing mercenaries. BUT PLEASE DAMN Having Sheva as a partner was horrendous. It felt like she was programmed to do whatever you needed her to do and take LONGEST possible path while doing it. Due to its day time appearance and lack of variety in locations I feel like it didn't really stand up to previous games at the time. The puzzles were fun and it was cool wearing different unlockable outfits.

    The story was interesting and it offered a nice close to the chapter that was A.W

    Chris PUNCHED A BOULDER.

    All in all, it was fun to return to the game but it was really annoying at some parts. Took away the scares and replaced them with annoying or boring tasks.
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  16. May 21, 2021
    5
    First off you have to install a patch to even play the game because of Windows Live, After that you will have plenty of fun fighting down Horrible Bosses that is just bad and don't tell you what to do and tedious and you have to look at YouTube videos which make it worse because then you just feel stupid and then you have to hope Data bosses actually react to being shot I'm looking atFirst off you have to install a patch to even play the game because of Windows Live, After that you will have plenty of fun fighting down Horrible Bosses that is just bad and don't tell you what to do and tedious and you have to look at YouTube videos which make it worse because then you just feel stupid and then you have to hope Data bosses actually react to being shot I'm looking at your worst boss fight 5-2.
    , And where is Patsy is this is just a worse version of Resident Evil 4 my favourite game of all time I can't look at what they've done to my baby I hate it I want to give it a 1 out of 10 but that would be kind of mean and X is so I will give it a 3
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  17. Feb 28, 2021
    6
    Pros:
    + good weapon variety
    + quick to aim
    + good lighting
    + interesting scenario for the first half of the game

    Cons:
    - not survival horror
    - no puzzles
    - dumb ai partner
    - horrible quick-time events
    - bad boss fights
    - can't aim and move at the same time
  18. Sep 29, 2020
    7
    Graphics and controls are good. The turns are better/softer and more comfortable than in the previous parts. The AI ​​of the partner is incredibly disgusting. An extremely dumb doll that collects most of the mines along the way, and releases all available bullets, like water in a toilet bowl(At this point, right out of all the holes climbs the fact that the game is designed for cooperativeGraphics and controls are good. The turns are better/softer and more comfortable than in the previous parts. The AI ​​of the partner is incredibly disgusting. An extremely dumb doll that collects most of the mines along the way, and releases all available bullets, like water in a toilet bowl(At this point, right out of all the holes climbs the fact that the game is designed for cooperative walk-through, but in order not to lose part of the gamers market, somehow on the snots they glued the "behavior" of the second character). One thing only saved her from the highest quality swearwords from me - she almost never missed. But this is the merit of the dry mathematics of the program, and not of the "well-thought-out intelligence of the partner."
    The gameplay, although it became more lively, and not painfully jelly is too arcade now. "The gripping horror of survival" has turned into a "zombie grinder with enemies that jump on your head from all the holes. Despite the presence of a large inventory between levels, the inventory of the characters is extremely-extremely small. And the funniest thing is that bulletproof vest and a vest from close-range attacks are in the same inventory.
    There is a strong bug in the game - the grenade launcher does not work on masked thugs. In general, even shrapnel.
    "Melee attack's instruction" is given only in the third chapter. And that's far enough for such a thing as a control manual... wtf?
    The Japanese are in their repertoire: although the plot is interesting, it is presented in a classic silly-pretentious style, and stuffed with typical clichés of Hollywood action films. Like an overly long fight with the last boss.
    The game has for me only one indisputable plus - bosses. They are unique, and each is interesting in its own way. But the last fight is overly spoiled by the fact that "you need to do something more pretentious for the main enemy than for the rest of the bosses".
    This "action movie" about zombies, which is became very different from the main idea of the whole story about resident evil got very tired for me by the middle, and became very predictable because of these boring clichés.
    However, I still got my portion of pleasure.
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  19. Sep 23, 2020
    7
    Diversão: 7,5/ História: 8 / Inovação: 6 / Gráfico e Performance: 9 / Jogabilidade: 4 / Arte: 8 / Trilha Sonora: 7

    Um bom game de Resident Evil 5. Bebe da água do Reisdent Evil 4, no entanto, não alcança o mesmo nível de maestria. A jogabilidade é péssima, a ambientação não é muito variada, o que faz com que a atmosfera seja menos imersiva. Inova pouco, mas diverte o suficiente para ser
    Diversão: 7,5/ História: 8 / Inovação: 6 / Gráfico e Performance: 9 / Jogabilidade: 4 / Arte: 8 / Trilha Sonora: 7

    Um bom game de Resident Evil 5. Bebe da água do Reisdent Evil 4, no entanto, não alcança o mesmo nível de maestria. A jogabilidade é péssima, a ambientação não é muito variada, o que faz com que a atmosfera seja menos imersiva. Inova pouco, mas diverte o suficiente para ser avaliado de forma equilibrada.
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  20. Apr 18, 2020
    7
    Despite having seen polarized opinions on the game, i have found Resident Evil 5 to be suprisingly a pretty good game. Even if its over 10 years old at this point, it still plays well enough even for a series newcomer like me. Though, RE5 also has some annnoying issues that came along with the experience and hamper it somewhat.

    While visually RE5 definetly shows its age, the art style
    Despite having seen polarized opinions on the game, i have found Resident Evil 5 to be suprisingly a pretty good game. Even if its over 10 years old at this point, it still plays well enough even for a series newcomer like me. Though, RE5 also has some annnoying issues that came along with the experience and hamper it somewhat.

    While visually RE5 definetly shows its age, the art style still holds up and presents a dark, gritty moody looking game with suitable atmosphere for a horror experience, that takes you to different kind of places, from gritty urban areas, to swampy african tribe lands, to a Tomb Raideresque lost city and others. Chris, Sheva and other main characters are really well modeled and animated, and cutscenes are executed nicely aswell, with excellent motion capture and acting that look more than convincing even compared to modern games. But also regarding cutscenes, they trigger my OCD because characters always use the default side arm in them, even when i have bought and equipped different weapons for Chris and Sheva, nitpick for most people, but it annoys me when games ignore details like that. While, normally, im not a person who complains about narrow FOV in games, in RE5 it kind of got to me, whether the FOV in the game is as it is for the game design, horror aspects or a draw back regarding limitations of consoles, that made its way into the PC version, there were times i wish i could've adjuted it just to make it bit wider.

    While im normally not a particular fan of tankish, slow controls in games, in RE5 it kind of felt alright for me. Granted it took getting used to and it wasnt all perfect even when i did, as when fighting large groups of enemies things can go FUBAR real quick, as some types of them are quite the bullet sponges. Im torn on the stop to shoot combat design. On one hand i understand it helps building tension and make yourself grounded in order to not be overly capable. On the other hand, it sort of goes against the game's action focused gameplay design. I feel giving the player minimal movement ability while shooting would've been a good compromise. Otherwise, combat feels reasonably satisfying, with hefty feeling to the guns and their impact on enemies, and with blowing their heads off, which sometimes isnt a good idea as they can turn into more powerful enemies. The biggest problem for me was how inventory management during gameplay is real time, i just dont understand the brains behind this idea, it doesnt help the horror aspect at all, it doesnt add urgency, it adds only frustration when you need to manage your stuff while neck deep into fighting zombies, managing inventory should always put the gameplay on pause. Your AI partner is quite capable in combat and in supporting you, but outside of combat they tend to get in your way as you travel about, stumbling in your path too often. RE5 is also riding way too much on QTE sequences, i dont mind having them time to time during a game, but too much is too much, especially when they require 2 key execution, at times it really pissed me off and some of them really feel cheap as you fail them.

    Story was an enjoyable thrill ride i got to say. However a plot twist regarding a certain character was observable from a mile away, though it didnt hurt story matters really. The main antagonist is really cool and slick, but the very final boss encounter was pretty confusing, as i had no idea what was the correct approach to it, only after dying like...12 times, i had that ''gotcha'' revelation. Speaking of boss fights, they rely too much on the ''shoot the glowing spot'', something of a trend among Capcom's games at the time, judge it as you will. The 2 DLC missions that are included in Gold Edition of RE5 offer 2 - 2,5 hours of extra story content that tie into the base game's narrative and overall are worthwhile additions.

    I was utterly dumbfounded that the game was a target of nonsensical racism allegations from insanely idiotic, disingenuous political activists and their like minded tools masquerading as games journalists who have no idea what the hell they are talking about, nor who have any idea what actual racism looks like. Just because a game is set in Africa and you have to kill infected natives who arent even in control of their own actions, doesnt make the game racist. Besides, RE5 already features plenty of anti-colonialist, anti-corporate themes within its story. Just highlighting that people, who are making these ludicrous claims, dont care about context. Its a shame that for no good reason RE5's reputation has been marred by these moronic, vile people who are into it just for the clout chasing among their regressive ideological echo chambers, and who dont actually care about the complex issues they pretend to care about.

    Resident Evil 5, despite of some issues, overall still is a very good and enjoyable action-horror game even nearly 11 years later, and even if you're a first time player.
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  21. Apr 15, 2020
    5
    I'm way disappointed with the Pc version of this game. The game is just really uncomfortable to play with keyboard and mouse, It's clear that it was mainly designed for consoles. What's more, the many of the quick time events there're along the game are almost impossible to do without a gamepad. Although the controls ruins a lot the gameplay, the most annoying thing is the AI of yourI'm way disappointed with the Pc version of this game. The game is just really uncomfortable to play with keyboard and mouse, It's clear that it was mainly designed for consoles. What's more, the many of the quick time events there're along the game are almost impossible to do without a gamepad. Although the controls ruins a lot the gameplay, the most annoying thing is the AI of your partner, which is one of the worse i've ever seen in a videogame.
    This game was the one that turned the franchise of Resident evil into an action game, the scary and creepy atmosphere has completely disappeared. However, the survival experience stills, we'll have to take into account every single bullet. Despite this, the games is in some ways enjoyable... At least is entertaining and graphics and level design are really good.
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  22. Dec 10, 2019
    7
    It was my first game to Xbox 360 and I played a lot of times. The game is very beautiful for the release date and have a good story (there's some mistakes, but still a good story). The problem is: the horror has gone. You don't feel the fear that you used to feel when played RE4 for the first time, because the game barely doesn't have a night level to be honest. And seriously, enemies using AK-47?
  23. Sep 10, 2019
    7
    Resident Evil 5 is definitely a fun game especially with Co-op. It has a fair story don't get me wrong but it lacks what made Resident Evil feel Survivor Horror.
    The best way to experience RE5 is to grab a friend and enjoy. If you get stuck playing with the AI, the experience wouldn't be that enjoyable.
    Today the controls haven't exactly aged well either but it still has some of that
    Resident Evil 5 is definitely a fun game especially with Co-op. It has a fair story don't get me wrong but it lacks what made Resident Evil feel Survivor Horror.
    The best way to experience RE5 is to grab a friend and enjoy. If you get stuck playing with the AI, the experience wouldn't be that enjoyable.
    Today the controls haven't exactly aged well either but it still has some of that replay-ability factor in it.
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  24. Feb 10, 2019
    7
    An enjoyable development in the resi evil series but again plagued with the same problems as 4, less horror too much action
  25. Oct 18, 2018
    7
    Un juego decente a pesar de la mala fama que le ha caído por parte del fan promedio de la saga Resident Eviil.

    Todos sus aspectos son bastante sólidos, pero no brilla en ninguno. Su historia y ambientación me da bastante pereza, creo que no es la más adecuada y había infinitas mejores opciones. Una duración muy adecuada para este tipo de géneros.

    Recomendable.
  26. Sep 26, 2018
    5
    The controls make this game almost unplayable; the argument that being able to move and shoot at the same time would 'take away tension'? Clearly these people have not played Dead Space or similar games - absolutely TERRIFYING to play, yet you can still walk while aiming. Combined with mantatory Games For Windows Live installation with the game, this is a very no bueno package.
  27. Dec 30, 2016
    7
    Este fue el primer resident evil en irse por las ramas y convertirse en un MATA-MATA. Este juego consta en ir superando niveles y avanzando en la historia matando todo lo que se te cruza en el camino. NO MALINTERPRETEN, es un juego muy decente y muy entretenido, pero supuestamente es "Survival Horror"; y como no cumple en lo más mínimo con eso, le doy un 7.
  28. Apr 1, 2015
    7
    It’s a good game and I would recommend adding to your play list. It could be better as it is a bit repetitive, has a few technical problems, but I’m happy with it nonetheless.
  29. Oct 25, 2014
    6
    The AI is braindead stupid, the inventory system is crap, the story is beyond insane and cheesy to hell, and a whole list of other problems.

    But I played chris redfield.

    And I punched the HELL out of that boulder.

    Worth.
  30. Mar 3, 2014
    5
    Hmmm... FOV of 15 degrees? One third of the screen covered by the main character? Another third by the "partner" who gets in the way, steals precious bullets, and can't shoot anything in the head? Childish story line? Zombies (again!)? Unbearable controls? Boring gameplay? Funky green cross hair?
    I think i'll give this a 5.
Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 30
  2. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Overall, if you can put up with DRM and GFWL headaches, and don't mind risking losing your save games and progress - or at least having them tethered and more complicated than they need to be - Resident Evil 5 for the PC is probably the version to get.
  2. 93
    It may not be a radically new Resident Evil 5, but the PC version of the game still manages to hold its own with an improved control scheme and extra Mercenaries mode.
  3. 92
    Hands down, a great adaptation of a great game.