Resident Evil 4

 PlayStation 5
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4763 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 984 out of 4763
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  1. Wiwejeuin
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    WOAH graphics are last gen on a PS5! Should have skipped the PS4 version!!!!!!!!
  2. Lgjie0
    Sep 11, 2023
    0
    Bought this game on sale and still not worth it for the discounted price! Totally rip-off because of the removed contents and horrible Ada's voice acting
  3. RGypjc
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Pay to win and microtransactions spoiled and ruined the remake so original was better
  4. Omew2
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    I'm glad that there are people liking this game, but I don't really like zombie shooting stuff at me lol.

    My score is more about how much I like this game, hope this is okay.
  5. Skyeb
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    If you want to rescue a nobody all the time then play RE4. No true fan wants that and that's why we don't do that anymore in other RE games.

    For real RE gameplay you have a bunch of other games to choose from...........
  6. Sandmain
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Huge disappointment! RE engine getting too slow with boring outdated gameplay and ancient graphics.
  7. Sugad
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Just started this game! The story so far is really dumb, Leon came in uninvited with a weapon and superkick the self-defending house owner, then proceed to destroy the farming village afterwards. Is he actually a villain here?

    Hopefully later on it gets better but RE2 was much better!!
  8. Playstationsuck
    Sep 11, 2023
    0
    Runs very poorly on ps5 vs my Xbox. I guess Xbox is just way more powerful then weakstation
  9. No1Attacker
    Sep 9, 2023
    0
    I played it on pc and it runs so much better and smoother than PlayStation and the fps always drops on my ps5 this **** sucks!
  10. Hetoxdy3
    Sep 6, 2023
    0
    More like a Remastered sadly. RE fans want new games please no more same old game ever again..........
  11. JillTheBest
    Sep 6, 2023
    0
    Will change score once Assignment Ada and Separate Ways are added as free updates.
  12. Breyd
    Sep 5, 2023
    0
    Finally finished this game and is massively disappointed! Many content was missing, not being faithful to the original, even less scary than before, and Ashley still is a pointless addition to the game.

    Not recommended.
  13. Pdfnreh
    Aug 28, 2023
    0
    This game is very outdated looking and boring with basically no replay value.
  14. DEZCAR
    Aug 27, 2023
    1
    Es otro juego de lo mismo,un remate tras otro en lugar de crear algo nuevo.
  15. Zax33
    Aug 26, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jogo muito ruim eu sou mais jogar a versão antiga que é bem melhor resident evil pra mim bom foi o 1 2 e 3 nemesis ótimos o resto é um lixo total… Expand
  16. ListentoMEE
    Aug 25, 2023
    0
    Sadly this does not have the same quality as RE1 and RE2 and RE3 Remake. Very poor effort.
  17. DaveAus
    May 5, 2023
    1
    A lazy remake, some texture look better. But content was removed, micro transactions were added and they censored stuff.
  18. Neymoo24
    Apr 6, 2023
    0
    The game is not fun it has the worst story and gameplay ever please don't waste your time and money to buy this garbage
  19. 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
  20. Yarelly_uwu
    Mar 31, 2023
    5
    El mejor juego jamás creado, de por sí el original es algo tremendo, este remake hizo que amara aún más el juego, definitivamente Capcom aprendió de su error con re3 remake
  21. Itchytasty-30
    Apr 8, 2023
    4
    A lot of things worried me about this game when it was first announced and a lot of those worries were basically confirmed after playing it. I love the original RE4 and it’s fair to say that most people will still feel that this remake doesn’t replace the og no matter how shiny it looks. The issue is that capcom made so many mistakes with this game instead of learning from what theA lot of things worried me about this game when it was first announced and a lot of those worries were basically confirmed after playing it. I love the original RE4 and it’s fair to say that most people will still feel that this remake doesn’t replace the og no matter how shiny it looks. The issue is that capcom made so many mistakes with this game instead of learning from what the original did so well.
    Leon controls horrible in this. Just the movement and especially the gun aiming is awful. Purposely unstable to “enhance the horror” of not being able to properly aim. Leon is supposed to be a professional so why is he a wobbly mess? The game even goes further to make this a bigger point in this one compared to the og that Leon went thru a ton of training since RE2 but nope, he can’t aim now. The original felt like the movement and aiming was built around the player so you’d always be in control of the situation, now it’s built around the world and there is no controlling the situation. The knife is a lazy crutch for the devs to claim they added something new and interesting in the game. It works well when it does but it felt like that rarely ever happens. The pacing is awful. The original had so much great dialogue and fun cutscenes that practically got chopped to bits or changed for the worst. Example, isn’t it great how you don’t even get to kill the first villager in the first house at the beginning of the game? Now a cutscene kills him for you. Go down to the basement and kill another and they spoil the later reveal that the las plagas are in their heads. Why? It was such a cool moment in the original when they first started having their heads burst open and the remake devs couldn’t contain themselves. The third act of the remake is worse than the original and longer, while also removing a ton of enemies from the original. Shooting the lake is worse because they don’t know how to blend real time events and instead awkwardly cut to a cutscene. Cutting the fight with U3, the laser rooms, making annoying sidequests. It’s a much bumpier road than the smooth pace of the original.
    The characters are pretty much all worse except Ashley but there wasn’t too much they could change with her except making her bust small and no upskirt to fit with the sensitive times of today especially in an M rated game. Leon is a nervous wreck and talks too much now. Constant Marvel quips during fights are not funny or cool. For as much as people love meme-ing Leon of the original, he only made jokes a couple times throughout the game. The rest of the time he was pretty cool headed about everything. Saddler has a much smaller presence in the game which is a loss and they changed his voice for the worse. He’s not a fun villain anymore, now he’s Bowser from the 90’s Mario Bros movie with Voldemorts voice. Ada is a complete trainwreck, that’s all I need to say. Look up a youtube video of any of her cutscenes and you’ll understand. Luis is uglier and they really ruined his ending. Salazar’s new design is awful. On top of all this they gutted all the conversations on Leon’s radio. But isn’t it cool you get trophies dropping memberberries on some of those radio conversations? No, it’s not.
    The big cheese has a stupid hat, and looks genuinely less scary than the original and more like a big idiot so I don’t understand what happened there. The merchant talks way too much and he doesn’t sound nearly as good as the original guy. Do I even mention how they put in new costumes that all look awful with only a select few being carried over from the original? Of course no white shirt Ashley because that would be offensive and would upset game journalists.
    I’m not happy at all with this game but I’m also glad the original still isn’t replaceable. I don’t like where capcom is going with the Resident Evil franchise since 7 even though I liked it for what it was. It seems like they’re taking it in a very bland and modern day hollywood direction instead of trying to be innovative or creative. If they had put this energy into making a new RE instead of remaking 4, I think I would have liked it more. Now it just seems like an easy cashgrab. Especially true since based of how they end RE4 remake we may not even get a remake of the game that deserves it, Code Veronica, or even RE5 but that game also doesn't need a remake. Just not happy with where things look like they’re going for a series I once loved.    … Expand
  22. 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.
  23. King_sony
    Aug 8, 2023
    0
    Bad game, slow gameplay, no change in the story, like Part 3 and Part 2 Remake
  24. Fellini70
    Apr 8, 2023
    0
    Ah. The hyperbolic sophomore virgins of the internet anonymously clash. How boresome. Like this game. Is it a triumph over its predecessor? Yes. No question. Is it any fun? No. It isn't. Go play amongst yourselves.
  25. CnPx98
    Apr 15, 2023
    0
    Contains pay to win rubbish. Clearly the company no longer cares about Resident Evil if they are willing to do this. It's disrespectful to your consumers. No single player game should have this. No even multiplayer but definitely not single player. Thanks for ruining the game. If your gonna do this then pass the game onto someone who won't do this. Never do this again!
  26. ewruer
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    The gameplay and puzzles are all really boring, just rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat!!
  27. 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
  28. jojo1m1
    Aug 4, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. los controles son toscos, la dificultad se basa en ponerte una cantidad exagerada de enemigos, aun que hay muchas armas hay muy poca munición, le quitan importancia a personajes como krauser y después del decimo regenerador quería patear mi pc, tiene cosas buenas pero no lo volvería a jugar, es mejor el original… Expand
  29. mikelis
    Jun 3, 2023
    4
    Its' 2023 you can't make story driven games with **** cliches like this one, I mean come on!
    Leon here was the ultimate douchebag, i couldn't stand him...
  30. Bentleyboy89
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is just garbage. They made the first chapter impossible on purpose. As soon as you're on the main square in the village there will be hordes of enemies and you won't have enough bullets to kill them. This crap is just unplayable. **** this remake. The original is great. This is unplayable garbage.… Expand
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#3 Best PlayStation 5 Game of 2023
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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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