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Resident Evil 4 coming to the iPhone? photo

Well, this came out of nowhere. It seems that Capcom Japan has come out with Resident Evil 4 for the iPhone. The game was released on the App store but was quickly pulled off for whatever reason. Someone jumped the gun too soon? AppBank managed to snag the game before it was taken off and took some video of it in action, which you can check out after the jump.

Well, it doesn't look all that bad. I'm kind of impressed that the iPhone can pull that off. Granted, I'd never ever want to play something like Resident Evil 4 on the iPhone. Hopefully we'll hear something soon from Capcom on what this is all about.

What do you all think of it? How's it look to you? 

[Via Anthony Teel's C Blog]


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SilverDragon1979's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:04
SilverDragon1979
Oh come on, if the Wii can handle Resident Evil 4, the iPhone can handle it as well right?
phantomile's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:05
phantomile
Very technically impressive, but I don't see the point. It looks REALLY awkward to control.
kickacid's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:08
kickacid
Seems to use the same engine as the recent Resident Evil Degradation Iphone game.
I hate the virtual D-pad and buttons set up so much though.
AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:10
AgentMOO
Graphically it looks great, but there's no way I could put up with that control scheme long enough to make a dent in the story.
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:31
Cowboy TTop
Looks okay. I'd buy it if I had an iPhone.

Now try doing RE5, iPhone?
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:33
falinter
I can't tell. Is he sliding his thumb. Cause thats bull if you have to lift your finger to use a "virtual joystiq"
aerofan11's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:34
aerofan11
I wonder how much of the console RE4 is in this port, I can't see them putting the entire game on there.
Cadtalfryn's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:38
Cadtalfryn
@AgentMOO
You need to have your eyes checked the graphics look atrocious.

The controls look really awkward as well.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 08:41
Chronic Logic
Looks awkward to handle.
mikeyed's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 09:26
mikeyed
Yeah, the graphics look just barely tolerable (even for a portable console.) The way the zombies pants blends in with the ground scares me.

The real problem have with this control scheme is the lack of shoulder buttons. It might be a lot easier to handle virtual buttons on screen if I had some buttons that don't block my view nor cause me to block my own view of the game.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 09:27
Nick Chester
Like Kincaid said, it looks to control near-identical to Resident Evil: Degeneration which wasn't "bad," but that touch analog nub control scheme is just not working for me on any iPhone game. I definitely like feeling my, uh... stick. Uh...

Yeah, this doesn't seem unlikely, though. Degeneration was powered by an engine capable of this, and considering the success of RE4, this will probably sell rather well.
wanderingpixel's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 09:31
wanderingpixel
It looks like it could be a solid game. But how many remakes of 4 Resident Evil (yes I pronounce it that way) do we really need?
covah's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 09:49
covah
is anyone tired of Resident Evil 4 yet?
Trevor McGee's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 10:49
Trevor McGee
This didn't come out of no where. This is really old news. I remember seeing screen shots of this game a while ago, and I'm pretty sure it was discussed on Destructoid before as well. The video is new, but RE4 on the iPhone is far from new news. It was even in magazines.

Anyway, it doesn't look so bad for an iPhone game I guess. I'm kind of surprised it was ported to the DS at this rate.
AlucardX24's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 12:43
AlucardX24
This is good news!

I'm also working on an RE4 port for SNES, Genesis, GBC, and Atari 2600.
Johnny Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 16:02
Johnny Justice
This version of the village seems to be solely made up of bearded man clones.
HydroTonix's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 09:55
HydroTonix
Thats very interesting. I cant believe the iphone can make such a good game look so shitty.
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