Resident Evil 4

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4763 Ratings

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  1. Necrophat
    Mar 27, 2023
    7
    Great game but still has the cringe dialogue, over the top story, melee just doens't feel RE at all. RE2 and RE3 are far better games.
  2. Damien_82
    Mar 28, 2023
    7
    The controls in RE2 (Remake) and RE3 (Remake) are great, why did they change them in RE4? The walk feels clumsy :(
  3. Jojo1
    Apr 26, 2023
    7
    It's not a bad game, but I was expecting more than this. My first play through was the hardcore mode and it was so difficult. Don't get fooled, play the standard mode first, even if you have played the original. Capcom could've tune down the action a bit and not copy it from the original, and it gets even worse now. It lack real horror. For me the only scary place was the village and IIt's not a bad game, but I was expecting more than this. My first play through was the hardcore mode and it was so difficult. Don't get fooled, play the standard mode first, even if you have played the original. Capcom could've tune down the action a bit and not copy it from the original, and it gets even worse now. It lack real horror. For me the only scary place was the village and I felt everything just went flat and gone into a full blown 'survival action' not HORROR. The Parry system was overpowered. Leon can even Parry bullets … Expand
  4. nauGie
    Apr 11, 2023
    7
    A very good remake. I'd given it a 9 if it wasn't for the microtransactions that were added post-lauch. However, if you simply don't pay for any additional crap and if you are not an idiot (for example because you spot "woke" things everywhere without being able to tell what the word "woke" is actually supposed to mean) you'll like the game.
  5. AleDark666
    Mar 29, 2023
    7
    Lots of fun and more coherent than the original, but still a third person shooter that is a far cry from the Resident Evil series although this one is a bit closer than the original.
  6. RYZE-ICONIC
    Aug 19, 2023
    7
    I'll be honest, it used to be a great series in the horror gaming world, but now it's just a name from the past. The game's audience cares more about the characters than the actual gameplay. It's a decent game, but it's overrated. If you were to give it to someone who has never played the game before, they would probably give it a maximum rating of 7.
  7. AigleAveugle
    Jun 3, 2023
    7
    Fun game but Resident Evil 2 remake is still superior in a lot of aspects even if its several years older.

    Get rid of the arcade, retro, old school stuff please. Smashing barrels with stuff in it. Items not relevant to the enemy dropping them. Get rid of vendor and cash as it is... Its mystical yes but immersion breaking, irrelevant and makes no sense. Jewels ? Who gives a rat crap    Fun game but Resident Evil 2 remake is still superior in a lot of aspects even if its several years older.

    Get rid of the arcade, retro, old school stuff please. Smashing barrels with stuff in it. Items not relevant to the enemy dropping them. Get rid of vendor and cash as it is... Its mystical yes but immersion breaking, irrelevant and makes no sense. Jewels ? Who gives a rat crap about that in a time of near apocalypse like RE. No more QTA please, it sucks. No more infinite ammo, Rambo sequences driving stuff on a trail. This is supposed to be a dark, horror survival game... Come on. No more closing enemies spawning from nowhere. Its hard to feel present when almost at every turn you know stuff will happen or not because of a trigger... Director touch breaks the world.

    I would have preferred smaller maps with more meaning in them. Fewer enemies and more spooky and dangerous atmosphere. Nothing is really scary and you can easily just shoot everything, running almost like DOOM with exploding barrels picking up dropped items.

    You guys are almost there ; graphics, game-play, aesthetic, story, mechanics. Just be more serious and severe. And for cry sake, Capcom, stop it with boss that have an eye for weak parts or indestructible ones that need to be at this particular spot when you activate the switch, we done that a million times already.    … Expand
  8. Noriyuki83
    Mar 30, 2023
    7
    Probably the most offensive and mockery game from the current Capcom to all classic fans of the franchise, the game it's good but then the question is: why they didn't put in the same effort for Resident Evil 2 and 3?
    Because they rushed these games for release this Resident Evil 4 Remake, there are no respect and passion anymore, people must to stop to ask for more "remakes" and ask to    Probably the most offensive and mockery game from the current Capcom to all classic fans of the franchise, the game it's good but then the question is: why they didn't put in the same effort for Resident Evil 2 and 3?
    Because they rushed these games for release this Resident Evil 4 Remake, there are no respect and passion anymore, people must to stop to ask for more "remakes" and ask to fix the previews "remakes" especially RE3 that deserve the same respect and development with "The Mercenaries" included.    … Expand
  9. CloudXz
    Mar 28, 2023
    7
    It is a great Game but not on the Same Level as the orginal What is really a big Problem is getting S+. I'm not SO bad in Videogames. But this is simple ridiculous. It's ok to make something hard but not to hard + you have to rush because you have to do it in under 5 1/2h and with only 15 saves. There is something like hard and then there is something like ridiculous...
    I did in the End    It is a great Game but not on the Same Level as the orginal What is really a big Problem is getting S+. I'm not SO bad in Videogames. But this is simple ridiculous. It's ok to make something hard but not to hard + you have to rush because you have to do it in under 5 1/2h and with only 15 saves. There is something like hard and then there is something like ridiculous...
    I did in the End after Weeks but it was pure Pain. I would give it a 8/10 but this is a reason to take a Point away. But after all it's still a good Game that makes fun. The 0/10 Rantings are ridiculous. But the 10/10 are way to much too. This would mean it is a All-Time Classic. And i don't know if this is something Peoble still will love in 15 Year's like the Orginal?!    … Expand
  10. Rysak23
    Jul 2, 2023
    7
    A good shooter with beautiful locations, good graphics and technical part, with an acceptable plot and good shooting. But the dumbest thing that the developers thought of doing is the **** lack of the ability to change the difficulty level up. once you change the difficulty level to easy, you will no longer be able to return the difficulty back. This is a very stupid restriction that IA good shooter with beautiful locations, good graphics and technical part, with an acceptable plot and good shooting. But the dumbest thing that the developers thought of doing is the **** lack of the ability to change the difficulty level up. once you change the difficulty level to easy, you will no longer be able to return the difficulty back. This is a very stupid restriction that I don’t understand what the hell they did… Expand
  11. AdrikD
    Apr 2, 2023
    7
    I don’t understand why people like it so much, but it’s definitely not bad. Am I the only one who thinks that the game has problems with how it looks?
  12. Texhnolyze1
    Aug 22, 2023
    7
    Ну игра отличная, но сюжет за 20 лет устарел.
  13. Helix__006
    Apr 6, 2023
    7
    I want to give it 9.

    The reason i gave 7 is:

    1. You know, when you close to an enemy, you can perform a special knife attack by pressing R2, but if too close, that turns to normal attack, i died many times because of that.

    2. When an enemy is about to hit you, your attack on them may not interrupt their action.
  14. Luke9648
    Mar 26, 2023
    7
    Absolutely no extra modes beside the main story are included at launch. Such disappointment.
  15. SaltyMarky
    May 18, 2023
    7
    Ultimately. The tight, reliable and predictable gameplay of the original RE4 has been replaced with sluggish movement, terrible aiming and randomness.

    It feels bad to move and shoot in this. Getting Leon from point A to point B results in endless stumble animations because you have to sprint everywhere because the default walk is inexcusably slow. Even his run is too slow to carry you    Ultimately. The tight, reliable and predictable gameplay of the original RE4 has been replaced with sluggish movement, terrible aiming and randomness.

    It feels bad to move and shoot in this. Getting Leon from point A to point B results in endless stumble animations because you have to sprint everywhere because the default walk is inexcusably slow. Even his run is too slow to carry you away from danger in reliable fashion.

    The red-dot of the original, where your shots go where you aim, has been replaced with a cursor and random bullet deviation - resulting in the frustrating experience of missing constantly where you feel you should have hit.

    At higher levels of play, the reliability of getting stagger animations and learning the game is gone - due to more randomness in the engine as relates to critical hits and whatnot. The tight "learnability" of the original is gone, where you could get good at the game through learning what reactions you'd get from hitting certain body parts and following up with melee attacks. This means that experience translated into performance in a satisfying way. Now, goodness is determines by player age, gaming hardware and a good mouse. It's just a poor, soulless follow up to a gaming great. The developers stood on the shoulders of giants and delivered a mediocre experience.    … Expand
  16. Gorblor
    Aug 2, 2023
    7
    First of all I have to say that I consider the original RE4 a masterpiece and the best video game ever made and a remake of this game was going to be a task doomed to disappoint in some ways which this game indeed did. At the same time I enjoyed this game a lot (mainly because it felt fresh and new) and I see improvements here and there over the original that I would miss playing it again.First of all I have to say that I consider the original RE4 a masterpiece and the best video game ever made and a remake of this game was going to be a task doomed to disappoint in some ways which this game indeed did. At the same time I enjoyed this game a lot (mainly because it felt fresh and new) and I see improvements here and there over the original that I would miss playing it again.

    Before remaking a beast of a game which is RE4 you would first have to understand what made it so special in the first place and how it interprets horror because the game does it differently than it's predecessors. In some degree the devs of RE4R did but in a lot of points they failed to see the brilliance in some things that may not go with todays mainstream understanding of how (horror and action) games should look and play.

    One example visually: I am not an artist in any way but the original set an overwhelming mood by using colours and light. Especially the lighting is sometimes terrible in the remake and misses the point that the original made. RE4 is by no means bright but you are aware of the environment at all times because it is just well lit enough to see every detail of for example a room that you are in. Look at the water hall. It seems that in RE4R the devs just thought dark = spooky so we have to make it darker. Although that sometimes can be the case it just bad to generalize it so much. The point is the water room is not a place where something is lurking in the shadows, the horror is more like "here is the danger right in your face, deal with that, NOW". On the other hand there are areas where it does make sense to make it darker for example the labs where the regenerators lurk or the encounter of the first villager. The original achieves horror over stress (survival horror) which brings me to the next point.

    The gameplay: the main change in gameplay is that now you can perform reloading, relocating, shooting at the same time. I chose the word relocating because that is actually what you are doing in the original. You are looking for a good place to stop and shoot or reload. You are constantly evaluating these choices which creates what? Yes, stress! which again is part of the horror in this game. It also shows in the small amount of ammo and healing items that you will find in the game to always remind the player: shots count! enemy hits count! The remake on the other hand is taking a different approach by saying that now you have to be in constant movement. Just standing in a corner will not help you anymore which the village fight perfectly demonstrates. I actually like this idea a lot but feel that the devs failed to implement it in the rest of game which was designed to work with the relocating approach. Which brings me to the next thing I really dislike about the remake: the staggers. Now enemies can tank headshots while the original was rewarding every headshot with a 100% stagger to lead to a powerful roundhouse to make space for you. Ok, you don’t need that any more as now you are more agile but I have to say that it just is not as fun as the original where, like I mentioned, you feel rewarded every time you hit a headshot.

    To the soundtrack I have to say that again the remake fails to understand the original in some aspects. While the soundtrack of the original has a lot of noisy, environmental, eerie tracks the remake adds more epic ones which is ok but there are a lot of areas in the remake that are just silent. Why they removed the serenity track from the save rooms is just beyond me. It was supposed to sooth you and calm you down to build up the tension afterwards again. Something genius that the devs failed to see.

    What disappointed me the most about the remake was the island section which was the weakest part of the original that would have needed more drastic changes. The island is basically a military base with a little bit of ruins, underground and labs here and there. This miliary base setting never clicked with me and it always felt like the horror part is mostly over now and we now enter the like 90% action and 10% horror part of the game while before it was like 60-40. The remake did not change a lot here. It was only optimized while it needed a complete overhaul.

    At the end of the day you have to ask yourself what the remake really 100% improved and what you would miss playing the best version of the original which is the HD project by re4hd.com :

    - Changing weapons over d-pad
    - Picking up items faster and no despawn of items
    - Storage box for weapons and first-aid-sprays
    - balancing of the weapons
    - enemy designs (Dr. Salvador looks amazing!)
    - re-design of Ashley and her dynamic with Leon

    Meanwhile I miss following things that were in the original:

    - sound
    - art direction, lighting, style
    - good voice acting (Ada)
    - content
    - death and reload animations
    - lack of micro-transactions
    - no frustrating grab attacks but rewarding 100% staggers    … Expand
  17. Phil83
    Mar 26, 2023
    7
    TrashDialoges You have to run all the Time, because Leon is to slow.
    German Synchro is terrible
  18. No_difference
    Mar 28, 2023
    7
    Resident evil 4 is probably my favourite video game of all time, really can't count the number of hours I sank into the original. Going into the remake I was really just hoping for a good time and wasn't expecting something revolutionary and it did deliver to some extent. The main issue I had with this game was the dialogue. Some of Leon's lines just didn't land with me cringey at timesResident evil 4 is probably my favourite video game of all time, really can't count the number of hours I sank into the original. Going into the remake I was really just hoping for a good time and wasn't expecting something revolutionary and it did deliver to some extent. The main issue I had with this game was the dialogue. Some of Leon's lines just didn't land with me cringey at times and it's not really the voice actors fault I think he really did a good job in the re2 remake but in re4 it just didn't work and don't even get me started on ada absolutely terrible. Luis was also super annoying in some parts. Overall it's a good game but nothing special… Expand
  19. GOTYOFTOFYS
    Mar 30, 2023
    7
    No es review bombing, este juego es muy malo en su historia, el 4 original revoluciono en su momento con la cámara en el hombro y la acción pero nada mas, la historia sigue siendo igual de mala que las ultimas de rapidos y furiosos o alguna pelicula mala serie b, lo mejor de los resident son su inventarios y las zonas que vas desbloqueando, el sistema de enemigos y en eso este resident esNo es review bombing, este juego es muy malo en su historia, el 4 original revoluciono en su momento con la cámara en el hombro y la acción pero nada mas, la historia sigue siendo igual de mala que las ultimas de rapidos y furiosos o alguna pelicula mala serie b, lo mejor de los resident son su inventarios y las zonas que vas desbloqueando, el sistema de enemigos y en eso este resident es magistral, pero si nos vamos al lado narrativo es hasta gracioso, pero bueno, creo que el remake ayudo a muchos a darse cuenta de la mala historia de este juego, sus personajes lo salvan un poco pero los escritores son incapaces de darle un buen desarrollo a cualquier protagonista.… Expand
  20. DjebX15
    Apr 1, 2023
    7
    Dure de vie est bonne pour un RE graphiqme bon. Mécanique daté , peut ou pas de nouveauté.
  21. nbaoldboy
    Apr 5, 2023
    7
    Its Good but i think re engine need to upgrade Every RE game after RE 7, almost look like same .
  22. AquariusEmanuel
    Apr 24, 2023
    7
    Fun, but unfortunately it mischaracterized some important aspects of the classic game a lot, mainly Leon, he went from being a badass guy who beats up statues and lasers to a normal guy with some military training.
  23. J_R
    May 15, 2023
    7
    7.8/10

    Wow, I hate the gaming community. Everyone scoring this below a 6 are being ridiculous children. Everyone giving it a 10 is shallow and ignorant. People trying to give honest opinions and have a discussion about games get drowned out by mouth breathers on both sides. Bring on the down votes. RE4 R is a safe, unfinished, inferior re-imagining of one of the greatest games ever    7.8/10

    Wow, I hate the gaming community. Everyone scoring this below a 6 are being ridiculous children. Everyone giving it a 10 is shallow and ignorant. People trying to give honest opinions and have a discussion about games get drowned out by mouth breathers on both sides. Bring on the down votes.

    RE4 R is a safe, unfinished, inferior re-imagining of one of the greatest games ever made that has unnecessary monetization (day one DLC plus more added after reviews) and doesn't need to exist. However I still really enjoy it and recommend it.

    The crazy level of mainstream praise this game has received is bad for the future of the medium. The dismissal of the original, the claims that the original needed modernizing and that this new version of RE4 is better or on par with the original is awful. I thought video games were a medium deserving respect. Doesn't the gaming community get pissed off anytime someone from TV or film makes an ignorant comment about games. So why are we treating one of our classics like this because there is a shiny new but inferior version out. Could you imagine this happening to a classic film, TV show, book etc? Are video games disposable toys that we get rid of when new ones come out or are they art?

    The way the original plays is so good. The combination of the way Leon moves/controls, standing your ground, accurate shooting, melee attacks, knife, repositioning when needed and using the environment to your advantage with the way enemies move/attack/behave/react, enemy variety, level design, the weaponry and set pieces just works so damn well. It doesn't have any right to be this good but it is. It is near perfect. This re-imagining takes this gameplay and tries to modernize it, make it more realistic and play similar to other modern 3rd person shooters. In doing so they upset the near perfect balance. So they tried adding new things and re-balancing to get it near perfect again but failed. What we are left with is a game that is good to play but less fun and more frustrating than a game made almost 20 years ago. Nearly every part of the gameplay needs adjusting. But I think with further tweaking it could play different but as good the original.

    The re-imagining does do a better job with the story and lore but loses so much of what made the original special. The characters have more depth now but lose almost everything that made them so entertaining. There is so much cut from this game and none of the changes or additions make up for it. The pacing is also worse. How did this re-imagining drag on longer than the original when it has less content? Why do the merchants side missions and back tracking for treasures feel like unnecessary bloat?

    It does look quite good after turning off lens distortion and chromatic aberration but I still prefer the originals art direction. It runs well too. I only noticed a little jankiness and the frame rate only dipped a little when things got busy in the rain. There was a little pop in too.

    Why was Mercenaries not at launch and why does that mode feel underdone? Why are there little things I need to pay extra for? (Like the original soundtrack) Why have they added more little things to pay for? Are these going to make the game easier? Did they deliberately make the game harder/more frustrating/grindy hoping to push some to buy these? (Please don't buy them). Why wasn't all this at launch during the review window? What dlc is coming and how much are they going to charge for it? Why are so many people just okay with this?

    Why am I already tired of this game while looking forward to continuing to replay the original for another 18 years? It is just such a huge missed opportunity. Capcom took something brilliant and instead of remaking it, building on it, trying to improve it and leaning more into what made it one of the best ever they decided to make it something different. But not different or bold and fresh enough to stand on it's own.

    - This game and the original are not survival horror, stop calling every horror game survival horror. It sucks seeing one of your favourite genres being erased by mislabeling and wilful ignorance.

    - This is a re-imagining not a remake. A remake is the same again but hopefully better. A re-imagining is a reinterpretation which is very familiar but different.

    I'm still giving this game a high 7, even though this has been a pretty negative review, because even an inferior re-imagining of RE4 is still RE4, which is unbelievably good. There's still plenty of fun to be had here, there are some good moments and ideas and it's a pretty polished game.

    So go play the original if you haven't or replay it again if it's been a while. But still check out this new version just don't take the mainstream reviews seriously, keep your expectations reasonable, enjoy it for what it is and it'll be a good time. I paid full price day one and got the Platinum trophy and I don't regret it. 7.8/10    … Expand
  24. Jim_LenisPS
    May 1, 2023
    7
    El juego es muy bueno graficamente su sistema de juego igual, esta al nivel tecnicamente. Recomendado si quieres jugar una version mejorada al original. Pero no es 100% fiel al original, es un 80% ya que hay muchos cambios en la historia principal y me desagrada un poco.
  25. Alexrawr
    Apr 28, 2023
    7
    I would say it's ok.

    It's not perfect, it's not bad either. It's just ok. I've had some fun playing it, but I was expecting more than this.
  26. ElPozu
    Jun 21, 2023
    7
    Es un gran juego, pero no deja de ser un simple remake. No merece mas nota q un notable
  27. Narant
    May 31, 2023
    7
    Mon avis sur cet opus de RE4 est mitigé, même s'il est globalement très positif.
    Il est bon d'un point de vue scénario et histoire, car il suit à la lettre la version originale (c'est ce qui est attendu pour un remake), mais pêche légèrement sur la partie technique.
    Je trouve les mouvements du personnage perfectibles et manquant de rythme, en clair pas au niveau de mes attentes sur PS5.
  28. HoorayLiu
    Jun 22, 2023
    7
    對於有玩過前作的我而言，不知為何的買來後卻玩不下去，可能對於這種遊戲類型厭倦了－
  29. Kur0
    Aug 8, 2023
    7
    Juego que a mi gusto mejora todo lo de su predecesor, grandísimo remake, divertido, con buen ritmo, durabilidad bastante buena y muy rejugable.
  30. Blastfurnace2k
    Mar 27, 2023
    6
    I'm enjoying the fact that this really is a remake and not a 1:1 remaster but I sincerely don't know what the reviewers are smoking. This game is like soulsborn difficult without the souls mechanics to compensate. I'm just endlessly dying without enough resources to upgrade to stay equal to the enemies I'm fighting. Enemies randomly die in 2 hits from the crossbow, then randomly take 5I'm enjoying the fact that this really is a remake and not a 1:1 remaster but I sincerely don't know what the reviewers are smoking. This game is like soulsborn difficult without the souls mechanics to compensate. I'm just endlessly dying without enough resources to upgrade to stay equal to the enemies I'm fighting. Enemies randomly die in 2 hits from the crossbow, then randomly take 5 shots from my strongest gun. Reticle is completely garbage and just as random. I can single tap a medallion from half a mile with a pistol and not honed in, then completely miss a magnum shot to the head when it's dead center. The endless spawning enemies in some sections are just flat out cheap when combined with the fact that you can in essence just get stun locked by them. I don't know y'all, this is simultaneously one of the best remakes out there, while being one of the worst. My God, even one of the OG boss fights I sincerely don't understand how NOT to get hit. It has random dodge mechanics for some attacks and others seem like guaranteed homing attacks that are unavoidable and take half your health or more. I was so excited for this release that I took my vacation from work for it, I want my vacation time back now. It's not garbage but the difficulty is beyond souls anger-inducing. I actually recommend waiting for a price drop, didn't even release with merc mode. Kinda annoys me that it's getting so much praise, I had like 10 rating fun with the og and this is like 4 on the fun scale. Also, eff them for the knife only trophy, clearly Capcom is just on Crack now.… Expand
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Universal acclaim - based on 126 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 124 out of 126
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 126
  3. Negative: 0 out of 126
  1. Movies Games and Tech
    Jul 31, 2024
    90
    The story of the game is a mediocre story, the gameplay is very enjoyable and attractive, in terms of visuals, it is equal to Cross Gen 2023 games and has a stunning visual, the main boss fights are very similar to each other. The sound design of the game is wonderful, the enemies have a good variety and only one new type of enemy has been added to the remake compared to the original version.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 23, 2024
    100
    Overall it holds together very well, and even though I played the whole game in two days with minimal sleep, I didn't even think about taking a break for a while. [Issue#327]
  3. Trusted Reviews
    Jun 30, 2023
    100
    Resident Evil 4 Remake not only does right by its original source of inspiration, but it also sets a high bar for what modern day remakes can be. All components of the story have been finetuned into a more well-thought out package, and that’s before mentioning the game’s full use of today’s graphical prowess to deliver a more terrifying interpretation of rural Spain. The core gameplay also retains what made it so great back in the day, but with modern amenities such as a parrying system, quick-select for weapons and the ability to run. And despite the new improvements, the increased aggressiveness of the enemies ensures that the game never feels like a cakewalk. I don’t know who still needs to be convinced at this point, but Resident Evil 4 is a masterpiece that I cannot recommend enough.
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