"Resident Evil 5" = REPETITIVE gameplay + Dumbass AI + Idiotic story + Windows Live account. The result? Don't buy this.

this game is very ok,but there are 2 things that just make it bad: fake zombies and bits where you do what it says and you get killed. i mean, there not zombies, ther flippin africans. and all that easy stuff like press a button or move a analog stick to survive, if you do it you die. if capcom are gonna make resi 6 like this, the should'nt bother.

Don't buy this **** Don't rely on paid reviews. This is not a PC game. The mouse control implementation is extremely poor. Mouse sensitivity changes when you walk and every time the buggy braindead console port fails to catch an exception. And since the porting "engineers" bought their credentials on some webpage, they cannot even understand how to patch it.

I agree with J.Gault. This is not a horror game any more. The story is for little kids and all level are during day. I think that at least a few levels should be in a more dark environment.

Game for Windows Live + dreadful controls + a dimwit NPC who wastes all her ammo at the first opportunity and needs to be micromanaged when carrying out the simplest of tasks (best example: needing to be told to use one of three available gun turrets during a boss fight) + restricted camera angle + boring plot + terrible voice acting + poorly designed menus + overall lazy port from console + ludicrous biceps = an unbelievably frustrating PC gaming experience.

This game seems to be designed for those who don't want to think and don't want any real kind of freedom when playing computer games. Having just played through Half Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal 2, Resident Evil 5 just felt like a gigantic step backwards and seems to be purely aimed at slack jawed finger twiddling console jockeys.

I have no idea how this has a score of 86 on Metacritic. IGN gave it 9.3! Madness!

Avoid.… Expand

One word: Trash. I played RE 1,2 and 3 when the game was actually cool, with zombies and that dark atmosphere and mystery. When I see RE5 on Steam for sale I was excited to play the franchise once again. Well...the game changed DRAMATICALLY (to worse), there are no zombies at all, you just shot some dudes (mostly black people from Africa it seems, no racism intended in this comment). Remember Chris? Well hes using steroids now, you will often confuse him with Vin Diesel instead of the good old cop Chris, at first you will think hes coming from a CoD squad. I feel the obligation to write this review, if you played the old RE's don't waste your money with RE5, you not gonna like it. Overall a poor game, poor console port. Can't talk about multiplayer, haven't played it yet but I don't think it can do much better.… Expand

I'm sorry to say that they utterly FAILED on bringing this great game onto the PC. The only player movement that DIDN'T piss me off was simple walking. Yes, walking. The thing you do the least. They added the worlds most annoying target-circle movement there is on top of an very awkward 3d person view along with 3x as many zombies. What was wrong with the RE4 wii version where the sight was where your fucking remote was pointing at? Not to mention the FPSlag even though i had 2x times the computer req´s Console version : Good PC Version : Utter Sh*t.… Expand

This was a very disappointing purchase indeed. I'd not recommend it. It shouldn't have been ported to PC, and should have remained console, or perhaps just arcade... The game mechanics are poorly conceived, the story and writing are sub-par, and the level design and graphics bring nothing worth remaking about. I have two serious, serious problems with the game: a) you can't shoot and move at the same time... it's seriously ennoying to evade enemies, then stop, turn around, set up your gun, and shoot...; b) it just doesn't feel right rolling into Africa and killing a bunch of Pigme tribesmen for hours on end... zombies or not.… Expand

i hated this game for a few reasons. one the controls make me sick. the mouse movement is terrible and its not resident evil. the zombies arer gone and the fear is gone its turned into a third person shooter no different than a war game. call it anything than resident evil and ill be happy to give a better rating. but until they bring back the real game ill never buy another capcom release again. the game was very boring and had no horror in it. ill stick with silent hill.… Expand

Unlike most people reviewing the game i will be reviewing it as a RESIDENT EVIL game and not purely as a game. Now that this is out of the way lets talk more about the "game". Resident Evil games have always been about atmosphere, "feeling" and the characters always had a "mortality" even if they were badasses. Not so in RE5. The whole concept is changed with a cliche terrorists types story with the US army and crap like that which noone really cares about. The controls are the same as the old Residents but this time the enemies and creatures of the game are updated to work with another type of control scheme and not the proper normal Resident Evil one that 4 worked so well with. Tedious, set pieces abound, no atmosphere, no "haunting" story like the previous games, there is just nothing to say that this game is a Resident Evil game. If you happen to be a fan of the series do yourself a favor and avoid this piece of crap. If you are new to the series then there are better action games out there than RE5. Simple as this. If RE5 was my first Resident Evil game ever i would rate it a 6 for the badly implemented mechanics. As a RE games however it fails miserably and it falls way short of the one RE game it tries to stand taller from and thats number 4. For a true Resident Evil fan the game ends at number 4. Sad but very much true.… Expand

The controls alone make this game a waste of time. I can't believe the user reviews are so high.

I registered with metacritic just so I could say how much I HATE this game. The controls are awful, combat is terrible, you often stand around waiting for a zombie to hit you. The 3rd person view is terrible, and game play is so inanely easy that it isn't worth playing. The only thing that makes this game difficult is the fact that you are playing a crippled doufus who can't get out of his own way. You are surrounded by zombie/infected and the best you can do is wait for the game to decide that you can take a punch, often times you can't take the shot because you had just turned or tried to hobble away. I made it as far as the furnace room where torch the squid/blob/worm thing. It was so stupidly easy to figure out how to destroy the monster, sadly it took me 10 minutes to get the timing "just right". AWFUL AWFUL GAME...stay away. Deleting this PoS and sad I wasted $15 on it. The only redeeming quality is I didn't pay full price.… Expand

You know you're in trouble when you spend more time fighting the controls of a game more than the enemies. Capcom has upped the graphics of its franchise but compared with other third-person shooters the controls are simply archaic. Even using the 360 Controller it's awkward to move your character let alone dodge attacks and fire on hordes of zombies. Hand to hand combat is a joke and the prompts for special attacks seem almost arbitrary. Come on guys, fix the camera movement already!… Expand

It has potential, but has so many basic design flaws. You'd think after four previous versions of the game, they would get things right. Different mouse sensitivities depending on if you are running or walking causes dizziness. The ability to buy guns and not ammo just represents a bad design decision. Interactive cut scenes just cause death while you try to relax in between levels. An obvious console port that is painful to play with a keyboard & mouse; yet the inaccuracy of a game controller for first person shooting frustrates matters even more. The best feature of this game is the co-op mode combined with decent graphics, but frequent disconnects will keep you looking for something else to play.… Expand

This game totally sucks, You have only 10 ammo for your pistol against 20 Zombies who need 2 shoots to kill them. You have also melee attack but you CAN'T walk in that mode. And you can only use special attacks when there is a calling.
Fairness I have to say ich have the PC version, which is totally crap. This game totally sucks for PC

This is not even a game. I'm sick and tired of interactive movies that are called "games", I'm sick and tired to push buttons that appear on the screen or see the "you were owned" screen and have to play again. Just give me **** movie instead, that I can actually enjoy without being pissed at the AI or lack of ammo or gimmickly appearing binds to click faster than my reaction times sometimes (GOD!) or 100 other problems. This is awful, get this crap out of PC platform and back to consoles where it belongs, along with all the rest of way-too-overpriced below-terrible-story interactive movie-pseudo-games few-hours worth of questionable entertainment involving console-clunky interface and not-even-good-graphics. Thank you. PS +1 for hilariously-ridiculous polish localization, even if that was not intended. Would be likely +3 but sadly, no voice-overs! PPS. This rating and review does not apply to console version.… Expand

What is this? Capcom, are you kidding me? This is not Resident Evil. Resident Evil is a survival horror game with ZOMBIES and with some logic exercises and with dark atmosphere . And this? This is an action game with sunny atmosphere. You have to kill LIVING HUMANS instead of ZOMBIES. There are not logical exercises. I think they made this game for retarded players (like COD players), because you don't have to think about anything, you don't have to think about the strategy or what to do. The only objective is shooting. DAFUQ? Where is the old Resident Evil atmosphere? Where is the felling "I am alone"? Now you can play online with your friend or play with that retarded AI. That would be good, but you just can't fear. Thank you Capcom for ruining the Resident Evil lineage.… Expand

This game is just a piece of junk. Right at the start menu you will realise it's a cheap/lazy 1:1 console port.
Controls are horrible with keyboard + mouse but i suspect it's the same bad on game-pad. You have to hold a button to aim and you can't **** move while aiming. Ridiculous. Camera is horrible. It's a close up over-the-shoulder. You can't even see what's left/right of you, only like 20 degrees ahead. This + the horrible controls make sure you have a hard time killing the weakest enemies. Just do your self a favour and stay away from this crap… Expand

This game, from killing zombies to monsters, and human.... The first series was one of the best games with really neat ideas, settings and storyline. But now.... the 5th came out.... it is really stupid because this is too repetitive for me... I didnt get this game but I played it at my cousins house and my cousin said that he wants a refund... and it does not worth $60 at ALL.

Awful. The only good things about this were an ok story, graphics and the FIRST level. Zombies? No. Just Africans with red eyes and ak-47s and crossbows. Interactive cutscenes get lame after having to repeat them 6 times, and there are random, just plain silly bosses every 20 minutes. Watch out a giant floating tumor with legs... oh wait its a boss, again. Blow of a zombie's - wait what zombie- head for blood and guts? no it grows a tree trunk and whacks you with it. The Only decent boss in this game was wuined when they later put two of it in and then after twenty minutes sent 20 foot bullet resisting ants after you that chase you into two fat guys with miniguns.… Expand

Having played through the main Resident Evil games (I-IV) and really enjoyed them, I had high expectations for this instalment. I have to say I'm incredibly disappointed. The most obvious flaw, as others have pointed out, is the control system. I cannot understate just how annoying it is to have to stop, aim, shoot. turn, stop, aim, shoot, turn e.t.c every time you're in the middle of fighting off the vast number of enemies that get hurled at you. There is absolutely no fluidity to the game play and it feels incredibly awkward. Capcom should have learnt by now that there are better ways of creating tension than having an awful, broken control system (see Silent Hill). Its just plain bad game design on their part, and is inexcusable considering they had finally arrived at such a good system in Resi 4. Although the co-op element did turn out to work surprisingly well, I can't help but feel that the series has fallen into a lame action-adventure style, which completely undermines the horror aspect of the earlier games and is obviously aimed at a more casual gamer audience. Although the story line and acting have never been the strong point of this series I can't say I really engaged with the story at all whilst playing. This was mainly due to the disjointedness of the game, which has been inexplicably cut into very short sections. Resident Evil shouldn't ever have stages, it just breaks any of the tension and the game would have been better served by the old save game rooms which acted as a respite, but didn't take you to a pointless menu system with a score for each completed section, I don't want to be graded in the middle of a game, least of all a supposed 'horror' game. I would also find it very difficult to find any part of this game which I was actually scared by, and it quickly evolved into a run, shoot, heal affair which was about as boring as I can imagine a game to be. Do not go near this game if you're a fan of the series, or survival horror, or even action adventure. To be honest, just don't go near it.… Expand

Unplayable. The learn to play argument doesn't cut it when it seems I have to be psychic to anticipate what I need to be doing well ahead of time and mash the key to do it wildly with the hope that it actually happens. I am not complaining about the mechanic of not being able to shoot and run. I played and enjoyed RE1,2,3, and Veronica once upon a time. I am complaining about the lack of ability for my character to do the basic tasks of moving when asked, or stopping and shooting. At no point was what I did manage to play creepy, scary, or anything other than infuriating due to sloppy controls.… Expand

Геймплей ужасен и отвратителен. С геймпада целиться - не точно и медленно стрелять. С мышки .... это ...[мат].. сенса то быстрая, то медленная. Перезаряжаться и стрелять только стоя - это кошмар какой-то. Чувствуешь себя стреляющей тумбочкой, особенно убого всё ощущается после игры в L4D2. Просто идиотский АИ напарницы, сама ничего толком не может, так еще и постоянно за ней следить надо и няньчиться. Но самое напрягающее - это НЕОБХОДИМОСТЬ собирать патроны, травки и другую лабуду то в куче компоста, то в ящиках, то ещё где- это невероятный атавизм, это прошлое - так уже просто нельзя делать в 2011 году ) ... да ещё туда же - необходимость что-то покупать, апгрейдить - это рпг или экшен? Всё это очень скушно и тоскливо. Игру забросил, четыре балла за приличную графику. Хотел посмотреть чем закончиться, проиграв когда-то в первые три части, но видно не судьба. В топку!… Expand