Hey guys, I missed last week because I was tooling around with my new HDPVR and it is slaughtering my machine to actually edit 720p video.

Anyway here is the video review on why it sucks:



To find out why it's awesome read below.

Resident Evil 5 - "Why it's Awesome"

Resident Evil 5 may not be perfect, as the video points out, but there is much to like in this latest outing of Capcom's zombie series. Co-op has often breathed new life into a franchise, and this is no exception. Yes, having a friend to help you out of a jam takes away some of the isolation that had previously supplied the game's terror, but it more than makes up for it with intensity. Let me set the stage for you. Your partner has tossed you across a gap so you can open a door. Once he does, a horde of zombies attacks the two of you. Suddenly you are sprinting madly down flights of stairs, hobbling zombies with leg shots on your way to a door that needs to be kicked open. As you mash the action button to kick open the door you leave yourself defenseless to the zombies closing in behind you. Your partner fights his way to the other side of the door to hold them off by firing through the barred window. Now I ask you, what is more exhilarating? That, or wondering if a dog is going to jump through a window? Mad sprints through crowds of club wielding enemies to rescue your friend and frenzied searches for ways to reunite when you are separated wash any feeling of security away in a wave of adrenaline. I cannot begin to describe the satisfaction of seeing your partner becoming pinned by enemies, only to burst a head with a well placed bullet and save the day.

This game is very different from its ancestors in other ways, too. Far from a straight up action or horror game, RE 5 employs a remarkable amount of strategy. Careful targeting can stagger a foe and create opportunities for devastating melee attacks which can even be comboed with your partner. Healing items can be used individually, but will heal both partners if used in close proximity. Money can be collected and used either to upgrade weapons, or purchase new ones, or purchase additional health. That said, the horror roots haven't been totally abandoned. Zombie? Scary. Zombie Dog? Scarier Still. Zombie Hyena? Terrifying. Zombie Hyena with a head that splits down the middle to form a giant gaping maw that tries to snap your head off sideways with its new neck-mouth? Bordering on psychotic. This game has giant maggot bats, a huge ogre with a hula skirt made of normal sized men, and a sequence I like to call "escape from corpse mountain." The creators have truly outdone themselves with the boss design in this one, and just to keep you on your toes, occasionally taking out a normal zombie will simply unleash a whole new abomination that is much harder to kill. Seeing a headshot hit its mark only to have a mutant millipede snake out of the neck and lash at you might now be the new definition of terror for me.

The care taken in modeling these abominations makes it clear that the game's strongest point may be its jaw dropping visuals. The gameplay often looks virtually identical to cinematics, and sun bleached shanty towns, lush swamps, dank mines, and ancient ruins replace the traditional booby trapped mansion. Speaking of boobies, let us not forget the character models. It is good to see that all of the advances in physics and vertex weighing have been put to proper use: making better breasts. Sheva, the established eye candy of the game is in fact the most modestly dressed... until you unlock those other costumes. As for the other women? Well, lets just say that half of a boss fight is just one extended attempt to repeatedly cop a feel on a woman in a cat suit and leave it at that. Chris is in the game too, and, apparently suffering breast envy, has got biceps the size of watermelons, so I guess female players will have something to look at too.

Rounding out the game's strengths are the little things. Well targeted attacks reward you with fountains of gore and excellent twitch and death animations. When played at a difficulty setting in line with your skill level, ammunition is almost perfectly balanced with threat, putting you perpetually in danger of running out, upping the intensity further. Little niceties like killing a character instantly if they cannot be rescued rather than forcing you to wait out the full dying status show that the makers actually played the game. The end result is a game that is profoundly satisfying from beginning to end.