Resident Evil 5

[BreakABone]

The demo is now out on PSN and I believe Xbox Live Silver.

[Bube]

I played the demo for about 10 minutes, got bored with the mindless shooting. And since I played RE4 (which I thought had a lot of mindless shooting parts as well) on the Wii, I hated the control.

I was excited about the game, but the demo actually made me realize how much I didn't want it.

[Fyacin]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

The demo is now out on PSN and I believe Xbox Live Silver.

Sweet. I might grab it later.

That is if I can drag myself away from mass effect...

[Professor S]

The gameplay is poorly designed at best. It looks amazing, but plays like shit. There are so many enemies that come at you from all angles, so it wants to be a quick twitch third person shooter. But unfortunately the devlopers went half way and kept the horribly slow combat system. If enemies are going to attack you from the back, it shouldn't takle you 3 minutes to turn around.

Also, the lack of ammo makes you defend against zombies with your knife. Thats fine, if you want to have an acceptable melee system instead of the experience feeling like your controlling a handicapped person, and not a jacked up super policeman.

The experience was entirely frustrating because it looks and feels good in so many ways, but the controls are a complete and utter mess.

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Professor S

The gameplay is poorly designed at best. It looks amazing, but plays like shit. There are so many enemies that come at you from all angles, so it wants to be a quick twitch third person shooter. But unfortunately the devlopers went half way and kept the horribly slow combat system. If enemies are going to attack you from the back, it shouldn't takle you 3 minutes to turn around.

Also, the lack of ammo makes you defend against zombies with your knife. Thats fine, if you want to have an acceptable melee system instead of the experience feeling like your controlling a handicapped person, and not a jacked up super policeman.

The experience was entirely frustrating because it looks and feels good in so many ways, but the controls are a complete and utter mess.

Pretty much how I felt. Going to add that it was a retarded idea to make your melee range shorter than the zombies.

[BreakABone]

There's a quick turn button so that you can turn 180 in a heartbeat should allievate some of the attacks from behind.

And the whole limited ammo thing has been a staple of the series, what I tend to do is like shoot a person in a limb or something and hope you get a knockback attack. My beef with that of course is the fact that they don't always pop-up so you go in close and still get hurt.

and you can also use your environment to your advantage. In the Shanty Town one, the first room, you can blockade both doors with the bookshelves to slow the rate of the infected and try and pick them off as they come in.

Once the axe dude enters, it opens up the rest of area and tons of explosive barrells for you to use.

I don't know, myself and Magus enjoy the game a fair bit and will hopefully beat in co-op if he can keep himself from getting beheaded and smashed.