I have a long backlog of games that I'm hoping to take care of before the summer ends. First up is Resident Evil 5. I think first off I should go over my brief history with the franchise, why I stopped playing it, and my opinion of it after finishing the game. 
 
This series is one that has been long loved by my brother from the campy first release of RE1 (we both have a thing for crappy fmvs and crappy movies in general). While I personally loved the story, I absolutely couldn't tolerate the controls. Because of that, I completely skipped the first 3 games. Code: Veronica was going to be my first swan dive into the series, but at the time my tv was crappy to the point that the dark was impossible to deal with. By the time i got a replacement, my copy for Dreamcast disappeared...  I did play RE4 (on ps2 and wii) and I loved it. 
 
I bought the Gold edition of RE5  on 360 the day it came out (I dont like buying dlc) and stopped playing it until the end of chapter 2. My problem at the time was that I felt like I was playing RE4 again. If I had to play RE4 again, I'd rather it be the Wii version... I was tempted at first to sell the game, but I remembered the DLC wasn't on disk, so i kept it in my backlogs. 
 
I finally picked it up again after moving and I still feel pretty much the same about it. Aside from the first boss, very little of the game felt new to me. Sure one enemy that could fly, but every other enemy/boss was a derivative, even Wesker to a degree. However once I hit chapter 5, I couldn't stop playing althought I thought i was playing RE4.5: GoW edition. I was addicted to the story. I wanted to take out Wesker for once and for all (although this was the only RE I played with him as the enemy, not the first one i watched with him in it).  
 
So in the end, did I like the game? Yes. Can I recommend the game? If you are a RE fan and haven't played RE4 in a few years, yeah. If you haven't touched the series, I'd recommend the Wii edition of RE4 and is there Move support for RE5? Is it any good? If so, I'd recommend that. 
 
Without getting into spoilers of the game and whatnot, I'd probably leave it at that. I think next up on my list is either Darksiders, Bionic Commando (full console) *shiver*, or ... Prey. WoW action game it is!

Resident Evil 5 is a mixed bag. Capcom made a truly action packed and cinematic co-operative shooter but at the cost of much of the suspense and survival horror iconography the series is know for.  I think what ultimately made it fail was the fact that Dead Space had only less than six months previously set the standard of horror games in the HD generation and Resident Evil 5 couldn't compare, simply put.

Dead space did kill what little suspense I could've had in the game. I shot every single body on the ground that wasn't my doing. That can only be done so many times in games.

Dead space did kill what little suspense I could've had in the game. I shot every single body on the ground that wasn't my doing. That can only be done so many times in games.