Here's What Resident Evil 4 Looks Like On The iPad

If you haven't heard yet, the brave adventurous lads over at Tested were busy tearing apart Apple's latest must-have device the iPad over the weekend. All well and good if you want to see the silicon guts of yet another obscenely priced doohickey (and you do, right?), but what if you just wanted to see some games on the thing? Not talking Trism or Mafia Wars here. Real video games.
 
Here's Capcom's first stab at iPad gaming: Resident Evil 4. Perhaps you've heard of it. 
 

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• High-resolution graphics optimized for the iPad’s larger display.
• “Visual Pad” control system makes gameplay a fluid and intuitive experience. Players can engage in running gun fights against crowds of enemies, climb ladders, equip binoculars and jump out windows.
• 3rd person perspective camera for a panoramic view of the action.
• Shake the iPad to reload.
• Play through “Story Mode” to unlock ”Mercenary Mode”, a separate game mode with pre-set goals, weapons and conditions.
• “Coin Shoot” shooting gallery mode where the where the goal is to destroy as many blue coins as possible within the time limit.
• A total of five difficulty levels: “Beginner”, ”Normal”, ”Professional”, ”Hell” and “Extreme”

Supposedly Mirror's Edge for the iPad is actually really good. Having neither a MacBook or an iPhone, this is slightly enticing...hmmm....

The Resident Evil franchise is just being butcherd

" The Resident Evil franchise is just being butcherd "

This actually looks kinda cool. Just saying.

I wasn't told there would be fresh Resident Evil footage.
 
Oh lord, it's in 3d, with unnecessary objects flying at the screen.

(concerning the RE trailer) Really? they are advertising a camera system? That is their hook... not directed by the man that brought you blah, blah, and blah, but a camera system. This movie is going to be awesome.
I have seen all the RE movies, but RE3D will be skipped. I make it a point not to support this 3d fad.

With the Resident Evil film franchise I can't help shaking the feeling that they're saving the worst for last.
 
Afterlife looks TERRIBLE.

Considering the iPad has only slightly upgraded specs over the iPhone, I'm personally not surprised that the game looks quite similar to it's iPhone counterpart.  There most likely won't be many games that can produce graphics of quality comparable to even a netbook.
 
Guess: the high resolution they are touting is probably them making the game run in the native resolution of the iPad instead of going the DS XL route and blowing up the same game.

This looks like garbage.  0 stars.

so they stole the enemies from re5 and put the slut that was in the other movies with them. k

Clarification: RE4 iPad looks neato. Afterlife looks like shit and will probably be shit.

blocky...

Hmm not to confident about RE4 working with touch screen. I already have trouble moving around in FF on my iPhone.
 
Also how bad is it that I would rather see Afterlife than Avatar? Mindless zombie flick with massive plotholes GO!
 I can see why RE fans would hate it though. Also this should mark the return of TANG.

 Tommy Refenes' (Super Meat Boy) thoughts continue to ring true
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsbwGFScEb4

WHY CAN'T THEY JUST MAKE A PSP PORT OF RE 4!!!!!  WHYYYYYYYY!!!!!

Who's going to play games on a iPad though? Fucking idiots that's who.

For a second there I thought it said guest apperance by James Cameron. And I was just thinking, can the Resident Evil franchise get any worse? Luckly Cameron himself dont have anything to do with Afterlife after all. The film is still gonna suck thou.

The Wii version of RE4 is the only version of RE4 as far as i'm concerned

When the iPad cost about $250, I will probably grab one assuming there are some good games on it.   I don't have a ps3, and it's cheaper than this big iPod, that has a lot more to offer me gaming wise.   If it was something I could actually do work on as well and replace my labtop, it might be another story.

I picked one up at launch as I happened to be in LA that week.   I want a first gen for development and building in proper support for the device in my "iPhone Apps". 
 
I grabbed Worms HD and Civilization Revolution and they seem to work really well.  Civ Rev seemed to have some control issues, which I wonder if its due to the developer not having a real iPad to test with before launch. 
 
It's really fast, feels much faster then the iPhone/iPod Touch.  You can immediately tell just using it, but I also noticed while playing some upscaled 3D iPhone games, they had a much better feel, like they were running and a good framerate (30+). 
 
So it's faster and has a bigger screen, and I'm sure that is what a lot of people will say about it.  In use, those are actually meaningful.  It does feel like something different, and it works well. Typing works great too. 
 
GiantBomb.com looks perfect on it; if only I could watch GiantBomb videos on it! Need any help with an HTML5 solution? :)

I 'm a HUGE Resident Evil fan. The kind that that believes 1-3 are undoubtedly the best, and RE4 and RE5 are great games on their own right, just terrible Resident Evil games. I also believe the first Resident Evil movie isn't so bad, it's got a great musical score, but the other two are garbage. 
 
However, am I the ONLY one that thinks Afterlife kind of looks awesome? Hahah, I mean it's just so far from what Resident Evil is it looks like a ridiculously awesome movie. The special effects looked pretty damn sick! I hate the whole throwing objects at the screen in a 3d movie but this looks like the kind of movie that it will actually make it more awesome (read ridiculous). It just looks like the freaking Matrix right about now. Like the kind of movie that you go to see with your buddies and just end up cracking up at the outrageousness that you're witnessing. I'm really into movies, and while I love the powerful dramatic works, there's definitely room for movies like this. 

I'm amused that the "World's Most Advanced 3D Technology" consists of taping 2 cameras together.

I'm looking forward to a simple zombie based summer action flick, if its like the other ones it's kind of hard to be disappointed.
 
Music is A Perfect Circle - The Outsider.
 Suprised to hear that considering the band arn't toegether anymore.

I has absolutely no interest in buying an iPad for any reason, nevertheless for playing video games on.

What's wrong with the level geometry and lighting? Maybe I'm misremembering how good the Gamecube/Wii versions of the game looked, because the iPad is technically an equal to more capable machine. I'm thinking maybe not the graphics hardware, since the GPU in both the Gamecube and the Wii were custom made and stand up a little better than their low-end desktop counterparts of their days.
 
Also, I realize this is just a port of the iPhone version. Still... irksome.

new movie looks good.  
3D should be sweet

Watch out! Albert Wesker is throwing his shades at you!

Resident Evil 4 is amazing, yes, but why would I want to play it on an iPad? 

Stop throwing stuff at the camera in 2010.

Those would be some pretty impressive screenshots for 1998

It is pretty scary how much control Apple has over many people and websites. All these gaming websites are turning into advertisements for the fucking ipad.
 
Apple will make the iRape and mactards would go crazy for it.

I didn't know Darth Maul was in Resident Evil 4.
 
In all seriousness, it doesn't look HORRIBLE. But I can't imagine ever wanting to play Resident Evil 4 like that. 
 
As for the movie, we're in a sad state where "World's Most Advanced 3D Technology" is something you slap into a trailer now.

Well, at least it looks better than the Zeebo version.

this really doesn't look fun to play 

That movie looks sooooooo bad

RE4 seems to be on everything these days, it's an old old game, it's time to leave it alone, no matter how good it is.  

 I'm not a fan of this idea, however I do think the iPad has great potential, but in my opinion, games should  be crafted specifically for it.  

Basically, just like a genre like rts has to be made differently on consoles than the pc, it has to be made completely differently on the iPad. I think this device is great for indie games, very unique and wierd games, and, obviously, casual games. Anyone who is thinking of trying to make a game of one of the standart genres, has to think very thoroughly about the changes they need to make to make it work and make it fun.

Is that celldweller?

Looks pretty cool.

Looks bad. I just can't see myself having fun playing a game were the stick is a picture on a touch screen.

It looks too smooth. Not as gritty as the Gamecube or Wii versions.