Resident Evil 5 would be a game you would either love or hate lucky for me I love it from beginning to the end.
Resident Evil 5 is like a roller coaster ride it starts you off slow and the minute you get a weapon is non stop action all the way through. If you're a fan of Resident Evil 4 you will definitely end up loving Resident Evil 5.
This time around you'll be playing as Chris Redfield instead of Leon Kennedy. If you're seen the movie RE: Degeneration is kind of picks up right after the events of that movie. There's this new company called Tricell and Umbrella seems to loose control of the new virus that originated from Africa. So the game has come in full circle as far as where the virus was created. Is all up to Chris to find out who's behind it and what happened in the city of Kijuju.
This time you will also partner up with a new character named Sheva Alomar. Both Chris and Sheva work for the BSAA: Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance and they're trying to get this virus under control. I'm not going to go too much into detail as far as the story goes because I don't want to spoil it for the hardcore fans of the game. One thing I'll say is that you will get some answers from the previous games and I'll leave it at that.
The controls haven't changed much from Resident Evil 4 the only thing that has change is the fact that you can change weapons in real time which you couldn't do before. This could be a good thing and a bad thing because sometimes you're running low on health and you have to bring up your inventory screen and try to get the herbs while being attacked at the same time. Good thing about this you can map the weapons and inventory to your d-pad without having to bring up your inventory so that's a plus. You're also allowed to run in the game but you still can't shoot and move.
The graphics in Resident Evil 5 are just amazing; the views are highly detailed and astounding to look at. It just makes you want to continue going through the level to see what the next level would look like. You'll never feel bored when you're walking around the different environments in the game they all look gorgeous.
Also a first for the series is co-op online. You'll be able to play the entire game cooperative with another friend all the way through jump in and out at any time. Another thing I would like to mention that came back from RE4 is having all your weapons upgraded and having unlimited ammo active after finishing the game once. This makes it even more enjoyable playing it a second time around. There are 3 different types of difficulty and once you finish it on the highest you unlock an even harder mode. Also after finishing the game once you'll able to play with Sheva and also unlock mercenaries mode which puts you in a map with a timer to kill as many zombies as you can within that time frame I love it!!!
If you're a fan of action third person shooters you'll definitely love this game. I think a lot of the old fans of the series will be disappointed with the game because is not as scary has the pervious installments. But that's ok with me I really enjoy playing this game and I really put RE5 in a very high place with my other favorite games from the past. I highly recommend this game to anybody that loves zombie games and very high on action shooters.