Zero Punctuation: Resident Evil 5

Jabbawocky

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Yeah I agree with most of the point you made in there especially about the co-op ai. I had to take that pistol away from her to encourage her to use the flippin machine gun. Also the removal of the attache case was a pain as it mean item management was extremely restrictive again.
 

hoov

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That was great one of the best you've ever done I thought. I was suprised you didn't touch on the chest high walls/cover system though, but I suppose there's so many little flaws and bad new ideas, you couldn't talk about them all.
 

rekabdarb

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very interesting review Yahtzee... 5/5 (of course i'm not actually thinking about the number, i give all his vids 5/5 DON'T KILL ME)

but yeah still wanna buy a PS3 soully for this game still
 

Shadow Law

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Ahh, this one made me laugh very hard especially when the pic of Chris Redfield comes up with his head being smaller then his biceps (HOLY SH!T)
 

Sylocat

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I agree with nearly everything Yahtzee said in this review, which, while not unheard of, is not guaranteed by any means.

And about time someone mentioned the good feature of your escort mission in RE4: When you told Ashley to stay in one place, SHE DID.
 

darkwolfdemon

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It seems like as games evolve the A.I. gets more held back in the brain department. Especially in games where they need to do some exact thing quickly. Worst ever is Dead rising.
PS: hahaha, when you are running from your support character with more desperate terror than any of the other monsters. I cannot remember the last time I thought of that. Keep it up!
 

ElTigreNegro

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I'm surprised that there were no complaints about the quick time events, both RE4 and 5 had this habite of switching the order of the buttons every now and then just for the sake of it.

Sheva's AI is flawed, but it's not that bad, that said, i can't imagine playing on professional alone. Also, the whole thing about the tribal africans is (very briefly) explained in the game as just a village in a swamp were all their habitants started to wear their ancestors habits after being infected, makes sense to me. Why nobody complained about spanish people being protrayed as crazy sect people in monk habits?

Also, i love Yahtzee for doing a brief but highly accurate description of the previous RE games, RE4 is also my favorite, and while 5 is fun it certainly feels that they didn't tried hard enough this time. Why not new types of enemies? I can live with the same gameplay, and even the menu system, but why everyone had to be a rehash of a RE4 enemy?
 

puchead

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right.......... memory quiz time!!!

Gun, Knife, Nintendo DS(Old Version), Cadbury Creme Egg, Jar Of Branston Pickle, Copy og the Beano, Captain Pickard .....thing, The TARDIS, a purple Dildo

yes, you don't have to say it-I have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy to much time on my hands.
 

Aptspire

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let's not forget: boss with gayest voice ever (which is kind of insulting to the gay comunity)
 

Rodger

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A friend of mine picked up this game and ALWAYS plays it co-op with my brother. Given the mountain of complaints toward the AI, its hardly surprising.

Something that does surprise me, though, is that it took the Escapist this long to use that Zero Punctuation clip for advertising.
 

Roffey123

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Ah yes Shiva...I started the game and quickly ran out of bullets...I then found some bullets and went to pick said bullets up...she picked them up before me dispite not needing any.

*****.

Oh how I will hate the coming days as I try to complete this game with her in tow.
 

Ishinken

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Haha oh Yahtzee he seriously can't dislike RE that much. Original RE games (that is before RE4) are all masterpieces in their own rights. #1, the game that started the survival horror genre FOR REAL. 2, a super nice sequel with a much more thoughened up gameplay quality and experience with alternate routes in the story line making it last ALOT longer! RE3 was the one that offered the least IMO because it was just a lesser version of RE2, but it still had nice end-game modes to battle it out on! RE4 really changed the genre and made it into a more action oriented game which launched the context sensitive battle moves for real. Then everyone started copying it to hell! RE deserves so much respect as one of the absolutely best gaming genres ever in gaming history. And RE5 is basicly RE4, but better. In most ways anyways. The co-op gameplay is absolutely fantastic and reminds me why gaming is so good in the first place, to play with your buddies! And finally, since in what seemed forever, we finally had another game with the possibility to play through it with a IRL friend again! Then mercenaries mode which could be a game in its own rights. And then the upcoming vs modes... RE5, game of the year 2009, and the demo game of the year 2008!
 

UncleScar

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Thankfully I'm not and never have been an RE fan.
Cracking review though, I can safely skip this and get on with my life.
 

SlickShot

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I wanna slap the shit out of Shevva every fucking time she uses her pistol instead of the fucking rifle. *****.
 

Jursa

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The ending was epic, great review this week yahtzee. I have to admit that capcom tends to slip back to bad habits quite quickly.
 

tsunamibomb

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Great episode as usual! :D
I haven't played RE5 myself, due to being entirely unimpressed by the demo; I defiantly felt that I would have had more fun by playing RE4 again... erm... i think i'm gonna go play RE4 :p
 

yourbeliefs

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One of the best reviews he's done, but that may be because I agreed with the views of it more than I have with any other review. I'm surprised he didn't bring up the other GREAT inventory scenario, when you and your partner each have one green herb and want to combine them. I think they rushed this or didn't do a good QA job on it, because there are SOO many annoyances that are not subjective and the fact that they were not resolved before release just furthers the notion that Capcom are just IDIOTS!
 

Vampiric Puppet

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Is it just me or was this review out earlier than normal? Isn't it usually out at 5pm GMT? Or am I going mad?

Anyway I was so pleased that Sheva was nothing like Ashley who imho was worse than useless. And if you want Sheva to stop using the pistol then put her in Attack mode for crying out loud! It's not hard. I obviously disagreed with most of that review, but I'm not the famous one.