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Finally, the long-awaited, Resident Evil 5 Review! Please drop comments or email and let me know what you think!

So… I’m pretty much a big chicken when it comes to horror games, moves, etc. I struggled through Doom 3, and just about soiled myself when I encountered my first Big Daddy in Bioshock. So, hearing how good the Resident Evil games have been over the years in regards to scaring you, I stayed as far away as possible. Not because I was afraid of a good game, but because I was just afraid. I’m finding the fact that I’m writing about the newest installment of the RE series very odd as I know that I am not a horror fan in the purest sense of the word.

To give you some background on why I ever picked up the latest installment, I start with an anecdote. I met and spent the weekend with Ken Lally in March for All-Con. He is Wesker in RE5 in every aspect but the actual voice. Pretty amazing dude – super-passionate about his craft and glowing about the game. Then the fangirls started rolling in gushing about this game and I find myself thinking, “I’m going to pass up a game that this many people are crazy about because I’m chicken? No way!”

And that’s when I picked up RE5. There were some pretty intense parts, and some were even scary, but overall its gotten away from its intense horror roots, and for me, that’s a good thing. Read the rest of this entry »

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Now I don’t know how many of you logged on to XBox Live! last night, but I imagine those that did weren’t able to resist clicking on a teasing Capcom Announcement. If you gave in to that base urge, you were treated to an extensive Lost World 2 trailer. I had to say I was pretty impressed. The gameplay looked similar to Lost World, yet prettier but honestly not much else besides to give much indication of what other changes are going to be. There is obviously a co-op mode in this iteration, which is almost always a welcome addition. If its done right. Capcom has done pretty well so far this year and its just started.

I was happy to see that the lack of run ‘n gun has been restricted to RE5.

I’m interested to see what else is going on here. Please let me know what you thought of the trailer in a comment!

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As over almost 2 million others have done within the past week, I downloaded the free Resident Evil 5 demo from Xbox Live! the other night. Since this game is slotted to really be this year’s first multi-platform blockbuster, it deserves some love.

First impression was a good one – and its probably not what you think. It was the download size. I probably got a good hour or two of enjoyment out of the demo with solo and co-op play and it was only slightly over half a gig in size. Looking at other games that game that much content like Mirror’s Edge or LOTR: Conquest which are both over a gig and really didn’t have that much more to show for it. The download over my puny “hi-speed” connection was over before I knew it and I jumped right in.

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