Last Ray of Hope

After completing Fallout 3, one of my friends at the office lent me their copy of Resident Evil 5 to play over the 4-day weekend. I started playing a little on Thursday, and watched Tales from the Crypt and caught up on House M.D. Friday I played through all day, apart from the time spent trying to get my iPhone working again, and then finally completed it this afternoon.

I have to say I really enjoyed it, I haven’t played a Resident Evil all the way through since the second one, apart from a little time I spent on four. As usual with shooters on the XBox360, it took me a little while to get use to targetting with an analogue stick. One thing that did annoy me, was that I couldn’t move and aim (my favourite thing to do since Dead Space made to fear going around a corner).

Some of the new bosses were really creative, ranging from giving you a flamethrower than you need refuel, to firing a missile at the boss only for them to catch it then you shoot it to make it explode in their face.

Some of the enemies are annoying to defeat, the chainsaw guy at first killed me many times before I figured a strategy to take him one. And later in the game, I found out I could shoot different objects such as transformers to electrocute enemies.

The only thing that does annoy me about this game, are people thinking it is racist, I was reading about it on another persons blog, who was arguing against another persons blog.

http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/resident_evil_5.html

To quote them incase they decide to retract their blog entry

The new Resident Evil video game depicts a white man in what appears to be Africa killing Black people. The Black people are supposed to be zombies and the white man’s job is to destroy them and save humanity. “I have a job to do and I’m gonna see it through.”

This is problematic on so many levels, including the depiction of Black people as inhuman savages, the killing of Black people by a white man in military clothing, and the fact that this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young… fearing, hating, and destroying Black people.

First of all, they aren’t suppose to be zombies, they are zombies, and the fact these zombies are trying to kill you doesn’t make the people they were originally inhuman savages. The fact it is a white person doing this is because Chris Redfield is white in the previous games, changing his appearance breaks the game history. And to top it all off, it was made by Asian developers.

Apart from that annoyance, I really enjoyed the game, and I hope for more DLC. I might even buy my own copy so I can do the multiplayer thing, actually that is another thing I wouldn’t mind when playing it, someone to Co-Op it with, I died a few times since Sheva was too busy waiting for me to do something (i.e. holding an enemy, waiting for me to shoot an enemy, etc).

Original blog I found this link from:

http://theblacksentinel.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/resident-evil-5-outbreaks-the-racism/