Quality game in every way.
It’s been six years since the viral outbreak in Raccoon city and now Leon S. Kennedy is searching for the President’s missing daughter in a rural part of central Europe. But then there’s something terribly wrong with the inhabitants of a local village. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Graphics are the best what GameCube has to offer. Character models are detailed and the environments are memorable and varied. Every game stage has its own feeling and the village in the opening sequence does not tell even half of it.
Resident Evil 4 plays like no other Resident Evil game before it. Leon is controlled in some sort of second person view right over his shoulder. Unfortunately the player can’t move and shoot at the same time, which can be a problem, and the controls take some time to get into, but is nothing the player can’t get use to rather quickly. There’s a map in Leon’s disposal, but for the most part Resident Evil 4 moves along in a linear way, so player rarely needs to use it.
In creating an atmosphere of fear and anxiety the music and sound plays a large part of it and in this respect Resident Evil 4 does not disappoint. Some one-liners from Leon’s foes can get old after a while, but other than that this game sounds absolutely great and the music fits the action nicely.
It takes around 15 to 30 hours to get to the end and after there are enough hidden extras and bonus items to play the game at least once again, so RE4 will keep the player busy for a pretty long time.
Resident Evil 4 is an experience that no serious gamer has afford to miss. Get out there and play this game.