Resident Evil 5 Review

By Chris Hudak

Black Hawk Zombie Down.



Reader’s Note: Let’s get one extremely minor, stupid, ‘controversial’ thing out of the way so that we can both, reviewer and reader, get down to business: Resident Evil 5 features a Caucasian protagonist blowing away lots and lots of non-Caucasian enemies. If you are aware from the outset that the game takes place in Africa and yet you are…

  • Outstanding, top-shelf presentation
  • Excellent overall co-op experience
  • Additional legs thanks to Mercenaries
  • Intense action-shooter gameplay
  • But still have to stop and shoot
  • Sheva AI is, err, interesting
  • Chris is ridiculously Rollinsed up
  • What happened to <i>survival horror</i>?
  • Stubbornly idiosyncratic Capcom controls
  • Just plain <i>not</i> scary anymore

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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