Gamers in need of some blood thirsty action with their Wii should play the winner of several ‘Game of the Year’ awards game, Capcom's superb Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition. This third-person shooter game, is the sixth in the series and is known in Japan as Biohazard 4. A timeless adventure, coupled with unique controls make it a must buy.
Based on the 2005 horror classic, the game protagonist Leon S. Kennedy, far removed from Raccoon City’s disaster in Resident Evil 2, travels through a mysterious European village to save the president’s daughter from a mysterious “interest group.” He battles possessed humans, mutant dogs, ogres and a host of other beasties, who seek to make his life less than pleasant, throwing scythe at his head and chasing him with a sputtering chainsaw. The game never misses a beat. Expertly crafted, the game always throws something new and exciting at the players – a flash of lightning, a run in with a bizarre creature or a simple chord of music, keeping them on edge. At the same time, it blends traditional adventuring (finding items, solving puzzles) with addictive, arcade quality gunplay. Resident Evil 4's game mechanics have been completely redesigned to incorporate fast-paced gunplay, quick controls and shootouts involving massive crowds of enemies in large open areas.
To breathe life into the game, Capcom adapted it to use the Wii’s motion sensitive remote and nunchuk to make it much more enjoyable. With the Wii Edition, Capcom gives Wii owners something to gnaw on with Resident Evil 4. The game took the original GameCube adventure and combined it with the PlayStation 2’s exclusive content, allowing gamers to enjoy the new weapons, costumes, 16:9 widescreen, Dolby Pro Logic II support and Ada Wong’s five chapter adventure, “Separate Ways,” all the while incorporating Wii motion controls to let players point the remote at monsters' noggins to score nasty headshots.
The company didn’t give Resident Evil 4 a visual boost, which is a shame as the graphics don’t look nearly as good as they did two years ago. But that shoudn’t stop you from experiencing the series best game. Though characters animate well, weather and explosive effects look realistic and all of the gore – from brain splattering headshots to bubbling piles of slime look outstanding. Combine that with an eerie graveyard, superb lighting effects and creepy audio, and Resident Evil 4 has more than enough weapons to torture and delight people with.
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