3.5/5 ★ – imontheedgeofmyseat's review of Resident Evil 5.

This is resident evil 4 but worse and yeah that’s far from an original thought but that’s not entirely a big flaw. For the most part this game is really fun. In 2022 I doubt most people are still bemoaning about “resident evil not being horror” anymore because this is a fun action game. There’s been a lot of improvements to the core gameplay with faster animations and with a lot of it dedicated to a more seamless flow to everything. A big part of that is because of the coop which is hamfisted but it has its moments. A lot of the game is set pieces from 4 but less fun but the game’s still fun. It would have been a very safe but solid follow up to 4 gameplay wise...... then chapter 5-2 onwards happens and everything goes to shit. The final chapters of 5 are a miserable fucking slog and I now understand why me and my friend when we first played this game left hating this fucking piece of shit FINALE FUCK. RE4 could be frustrating at points but RE5 decided to take some of the more annoying sections of 4, make them worse and then add janky cover shooting all making for an unbearablely sour note to a game I was mostly enjoying. As for the story, man what a disappoint. It’s not good at being serious or camp. A couple of the characters are shitty copies of dudes from 4, and most of the original material I couldn’t begin to care for. Weaker is definitely the highlight and is probably the only section of the finale which holds up gameplay wise and CAMP wise. Also RE5 would have been served leagues better not using such an inflammatory setting. Even if the beginning of the game tries hard to assure you it’s head is in the right place with its handling of race, chapter 2 happens and there’s African zombies in grass skirts chunking spears at you, fucking really? I would still recommend the game but prepare for an awful ending to the experience.