That subtitle, cleverly made up in my brain for you, BeeX chums, sums this up precisely. It's Resident Evil 4.
Same rubbish story. Same running about. Same shooting. Same rubbish voice over.
It's facking marvellous.
Not least cause I love Resident Evil 4. And FACKING LOATHED Resident Evil 6; which is the most recent one I've played. There's no co-op and no multiplayer and I couldn't give a flying fuck. So whereas you do occassionally get followed about by a guy or gal - no one plays him or her; there's no waiting for anyone, no swapping things about with a pal and no screaming emo down your headset and up in your ear holes.
It takes about an hour to get going, mind. As soon as you get into this forest area where the unmentionable monster people it's gets Resi 4 good. But we don't want to play Resi 4 again do we? So it does some new stuff. First, the story: everything is probably happening in your head and none of this is real. Probably. It's kinda annoying though as I'd liked it to be more straight-laced since there's some messing about going back and forth between some hospital bed place where you save your game. There's some irritating other worldly stuff happening too. Shame, really, but I guess it's carving it's own thing. What else, oh yeah, I got distracted, there's the shooting really...
... It's spot on Resi 4. Cept this time the bullets and ammo are slightly more in tight supply. I occassionally found myself out of any of the ammo types I needed and it made it fucking difficult (and usually ended in death) (I've died a shot ton) (oh there's some proper gory death sequences too) (y'know, the cool kind before Resi got too scared of its own success and dropped them in Resi 5). And whereas you can go for headshots, these fuckers heads have a nasty habit of exploding in half or in thirds and you need to get rid of the whole head, so the tactic is to knock them to the floor and set alight with matches. It's actually a decent take on the usual shooter and if you're going to ape Resi 4 so much then you better switch it up to avoid a lawsuit. Didn't the guy who made this invent Resi though? Can't remember. Something like that though.
The bad points might prove insurmountable to some of the 1080p crowd though.
Number 1: the entire game is played in an envelope. I have no fucking idea why there's two huge black borders above and below. So you feel closer to the action? So you can't see your characters ugly feet? I have no idea. I said that though. If you can get by this you'll love it though.
Number 2: the camera is a bit shonky too. Well I reckon it is. Might be something to do with how it's place central to the screen whereas your character stands on the left. I dunno. Do I look like a programmer? Thenres something amiss though. You stop thinking about it after an hour though.
That first hour is very important, dontchaknow.
Number 3: Could've been on a PS3 and I wouldn't tell the difference. It's pretty but I couldn't tell it was a PS4 game.
Number 4: there's this cool level that's like that Resi 4 one where you're attacked by the villagers in that mountain pass. It was brill. Both this one and the Resi 4 one. And there's a cool level where your mate is opening a door and you're defending against these big fuckers and a killer nun. And there's a cool level when you meet the chainsaw guy. There's no negatives here. Shit is just cool.
Anyway, played 5 and a half hours and I'm loving it.