Thread: Resident Evil

Considering the sheer number of versions that exist for Resident Evil 4, there's a good opportunity you've played this survival horror/third person shooter classic. What began with the Game Cube exclusive creeping above to the PlayStation 2 briefly after its initial release has bled into ports aplenty. The recent carries out shape like Resident Evil 4 HD for the Play Station network and Xbox Live.


Let's acquire one thing clear -- Resident Evil 4 HD doesn't actually have High Definition graphics. The graphics come straight from the Game Cube version with simple up scaling against a complete HD overhaul -- a definitely bad move on Cap com's part as up scaling without advancing actually displays the game's age.



When presented in its original form, the fuzziness of the standard definition presentation permits you to appear past the last generation textures and unsmooth edges to see the development team's original vision, and to appreciate how creatively they worked within the system's limitations.


Unluckily, thanks to this speedy upscaling job, everything of RE4's graphical short comings abruptly have a harsh spotlight shining on them. When closely analyzing the surroundings -- something you do rather often when scrounging for herbs and ammo -- things appear shockingly bad. Ultimately only make you hope the game had really received a true HD makeover as the title insinuates.


But graphics aside, the game plays the same as it at any time did -- most surely a good thing. These parasitically-controlled humans come smarter and faster as compared to the undead baddies from last Resident Evil games, and they prove an interesting and memorable enemy for this title, changing the mysterious story along and providing a constant and unsettling enemy for our hero to face.