

The Resident Evil 4 remake does an excellent job with its interplay of light and darkness, which further magnifies the game’s suspense. The game’s lighting in particular was quite illuminating, pun so totally intended. Character models boast more detail while the game’s environs feature improved textures and all the graphical fixins of a modern game. After nearly two decades, however, it’s admittedly showing its age.įor its part, the Resident Evil 4 remake brings the RE4 story to a new generation of gamers, complete with new visuals that are reimagined from the ground up. The original RE4 looked great for its time on the Nintendo Gamecube, which was a criminally underrated console, I might add.

The first thing that veterans of the original game will notice with the Resident Evil 4 remake are the beefed up production values. What follows is yet another fight for survival as poor Leon tries to fulfill his mission to find a certain missing person while making sure he doesn’t end up in a nasty cauldron of stew that’s being cooked up by the locals. It’s par for the course for Leon, a survivor of the infamous viral outbreak in Raccoon City. It doesn’t take long, however, before an ill-timed bathroom break turns into a grisly introduction to the game’s primary antagonists, a horde of villagers infected by a mysterious plague called the Las Plagas. It’s a familiar scene for those who played the original game - Leon Kennedy chilling in the backseat of a police car while the two officers at the front do their best to get a rise from the seemingly American newcomer who’s like a fish out of water. The Resident Evil 4 remake starts with an evening drive on a lonely Spanish road. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring the Bee Gees, which didn’t exactly stay alive for long? Return to the village of Valdelobos Is this reimagined Resident Evil 4 more like the Scarface remake starring Al Pacino? Or is it more like Sgt.

The contrasting fortunes of both remakes naturally raises one key question. The reaction to 2020’s Resident Evil 3 remake, on the other hand, was more mixed. The developer received much acclaim in 2019, for example, with its excellent remake of Resident Evil 2. It’s a question that comes to mind with the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4.Īdmittedly, this is not Capcom’s first rodeo when it comes to remaking Resident Evil games. One might even ask the age-old question, why “fix” something that ain’t broken? You might as well encase fans in a rose-colored glass casket given how much affection the original Resident Evil 4 has among its fans. This makes remaking Resident Evil 4 a deathly scary proposition. Wo Long Fallen Dynasty review: A more forgiving Sekiro? And Leon’s not even my favorite Resident Evil character, so that’s saying a lot. It’s a big reason why it remains my favorite Resident Evil game to date. Not only did it revitalize Capcom’s aging survival horror franchise, it practically redefined the entire genre and third-person action in general. Just from the trailer and what we know about Resident Evil 4, it already feels like a mix between Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 2 - at least in terms of the action and survival horror aspect.Like pairing a waffle cone with ice cream, it’s hard to overstate just how groundbreaking the original Resident Evil 4. The real point in question is how Resident Evil 4 Remake will play. Although, people just looking for a prettier nostalgia trip through RE4 might not be fans of that. Capcom has a lot of wiggle room to flip the order of some events to make it feel fresh. However, given how long the original Resident Evil 4 was, we might encounter a few twists and turns that we weren’t expecting. This storyline sounds pretty identical to the premise of the original, which is what we expected. And the curtain rises on this story of grueling survival horror and rescue.” He tracks her to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the villagers. With the experience of multiple missions on his back, Leon is sent to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the president of the United States. Kennedy, one of the survivors of the incident, has been recruited as an agent reporting directly to the president. According to a blog post, what we know so far is that “six years have passed since the biological disaster in Racoon City.
