Resident Evil 4 Remake

And what a remake it is. We're back with our resident Sad Boy, aka special ops agent Leon. S Kennedy, whose floppy Justin Bieber hair and aquiline features are ...

There’s even a motorboat (!) that can be accessed towards the end of the game. A game for the ages. The possibilities are as endless as the zombies constantly try to take you down. A lot of RE 4’s old features have been retained, such as Leon’s beloved (and highly impractical) attaché case. Yes, Ashley is back, but this time Leon can give her instructions, the better to keep her from harm’s way (keeping her alive proved to be extremely stressful). And for all the people who have questioned why Resident Evil 4 needed a re-release, all I can say is “play the game”.

Keeping what works while reimagining what doesn't, this is about as good as remakes get. Eurogamer's Resident Evil 4 Remake review.

The trouble with Remakes is you're damned if you do and damned if you don't - change too little and players will ask what the point of it all was. Some locations are brick for brick lifted from the original, while other areas - particularly later in the game - have been streamlined to better fit the flow and pace of the story. You'll find yourself making your way through most of RE4 Remake with the contents of an airport Tiffany's tinkling in your pocket, as the game helpfully breaks down gemstone value multipliers that award you more cash for certain colour and size variations, meaning you'll want to keep extra stones on you at all times to make the most of every trinket. In the original game, spinels were small jewels that you could find and sell for quick cash, but here in the Remake they become a currency all their own, given by the merchant in return for doing small requests for him throughout Leon's adventure. In the Resident Evil 2 Remake, large sections of the RPD, as well as other memorable locations, were redesigned and reshuffled to work cohesively with the updated gameplay and to make sense in a more photoreal world. Or, you can quickly craft items by dropping them on top of one another - as with the original game - directly in the case. How charms are actually acquired is a fun little surprise I don't want to spoil here, but let us take this opportunity to reassure you that for all its gorgeously spooky new visuals and foreboding atmosphere, Resident Evil 4 retains its campy sense of fun where it matters. The bulk of the action in RE4 Remake falls into the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' category, but there are still a few modernisations that players will have come to expect from this genre - ever since the original set the tone for that same genre 18 years ago. While the original is roundly praised for popularising the third person over the shoulder perspective, it should also be held somewhat accountable for the proliferation of Quick Time Events in the many games that followed seeking to emulate its success. It also marked a turning point for one of the most popular horror franchises in gaming, as it leaned into fast-paced action and interactive cinematics to create a truly unique and exciting experience as it assuredly danced players from one dazzling set piece to another. All that to say, there's a lot riding on the Remake of what is widely considered one of the best games of all time. Resident Evil 4 Remake follows this formula and builds on it, displaying a confidence in both the original game's strengths and its own innovations to deliver something that feels at once intimately familiar to old fans and excitingly fresh for newcomers.

Capcom's Resident Evil 4, one of the best games ever made, gets a remake worthy of its status. It's worth your time, and then some.

All told, Resident Evil 4 is as good a remake as you could hope for, one that clearly understands what made the original great, makes considered alterations where it deems necessary, improves the parts of the game that didn’t work so well, and of course, makes the whole experience easier on the eye. Most of these are more specifically to the storytelling, with a rewritten script that attempts to reduce the overwhelming smell of cheese that emanated from the original. And it does make some genuine improvements, like giving Ashley a more rounded character, removing some of the more ballistically terrible lines directed at her. One of the most improved sections of the game is a brief sequence where you play as Ashley. Like the remake of Resi 2, Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 Remake is a complete rebuild of the game in the company’s RE engine. The plot remains distinctly B-movie, while the writing and characters retain a heady whiff of queso about them. As in the original, there’s significant room for creative problem-solving and changing tactics on the fly, and what adjustments Capcom have made contribute to that emergent play. A stick of dynamite in a ganado’s hand is as dangerous to them as it is to you, and a carefully placed shot can smear a whole group of enemies across the ground, saving you both ammo and health. Leon’s initial encounter with the Ganados at the Hunter’s Lodge has been made more elaborate, building the tension more gradually and adding a couple of new shocks to wrong-foot veteran players. Knives are a focal point in the remake’s changes to combat. Indeed, knives are useful tools in the Resi 4 remake, which is why they also come at a cost. Which is not to say that it is a straight retread.

Resident Evil 4's remake is an absolute blast, doing the original game justice, and is a must-play for any Resident Evil fan. Read our full review.

It's a must for any Resident Evil fan, and if you’re new to the series, what a great place to start! A big part of Resident Evil 4 is traversing the map with Ashley in tow, something that will bring up some frustrating memories for fans of the original. It’s great to see how Capcom has managed to flesh out a lot of threads and character moments. Resident Evil 4 is an absolute blast, retaining all its bombastic and over-the-top ideas while injecting some more modern horror and quality-of-life changes. We don’t want to spoil too much, because this initial scene is a real highlight, taking some inspiration from more modern horror titles and polishing the original experience. The Blue Medallions make a return, but thanks to request notes found around the map, you’ll be challenged to fulfil other tasks in order to unlock Spinels. This won’t work for too long, but the instruction makes keeping Ashley safe so much easier. With ammo often in short supply in the harder difficulties, we found ourselves relying on our knife to break us out of dangerous situations or finish off some of the more persistent Ganados. The mechanics when Leon and Ashley work together have been refined into two simple instructions: follow tight or stay loose. It’s tighter and more refined – Leon can now move while aiming, for example – but it is much the same core ideas. On a mission to rescue the president's daughter from a cult called Los Iluminados, somewhere in rural Spain, Leon quickly finds himself in the middle of a bio-terrorist plot to control the president himself. Similar to the changes for

Well, who's ready for the highest scoring release of 2023? While we're just three months into the year, the current scores the Resident Evil 4 remake is ...

The Resident Evil 2 remake has a 91. An absolute win here, and an apparently must-play when the game debuts in a week. [IGN (10/10)](https://www.ign.com/articles/resident-evil-4-remake-review) – “The Resident Evil 4 remake is the series' most relentlessly exciting adventure rebuilt, refined, and realised to the full extent of its enormous potential.” [TheGamer (10/10)](https://www.thegamer.com/resident-evil-4-review/) – “I had the time of my life throughout my 20 hour Hardcore playthrough and immediately started up a New Game+ run on Professional mode to see how well I could put all the lessons I learned throughout the game to the test. Normally I'd still find time to nitpick some minor annoyance or under baked section, but I just don't think games get much better than this.” [The Washington Post (4/4)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/03/17/resident-evil-4-video-game-review/) – “Resident Evil 4 Remake gets a perfect score. Everyone has a different way of scaling this, but the general story being told here is that this is a great game remade…extremely well. That includes 27 perfect 5/5, 10/10 or 100/100 scores, even including heavy-hitters like IGN and The Washington Post adding to that total.