Resident Evil 5 Review (Xbox 360)

I had made a point to stay away from a lot of the info surrounding Resident Evil 5 for largely two reasons. One, knowing how anticipated I already was for the game, I didn’t think that scouring for info would help feed that appetite. The second reason, I was afraid of what this game was going to become. Resident Evil 4 had been such a highly successfully game, both in my eyes and commercially, I was really beginning to fear what was going to be coming with Resident Evil. Moreover, what wasn’t going to be coming with Resident Evil 5. Luckily, after completing the game it’s obvious that my first reason for avoiding all the hype was much more reasonable than the second.

Picking up sometime after Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5 puts you into the role of Chris Redfield as he searches for his long lost partner – Jill Valentine. During his journey, he ends up with a new and unlikely partner and in the midst of a much larger and sinister plot than he originally thought. I don’t want to give away too much, but, even though the story was sometimes predictable at times, I loved the new setting that came with the story. While the first half of the game does take place in your typical “African locations”, which is very refreshing in its own right, the second half of the game varies from everything to a swamp to a underground cave city and even a volcano. A mother****** volcano. All in all, the various locations really keep the game from hating the same mundane color schemes that a lot of the previous games have suffered from.