1Up - "30 Things You Need to Know About Resident Evil 5"

[Archelon]

1Up caps off their week-long look at Resident Evil 5 with an extensive preview of the final review build of the game. As the title suggests, the preview lists thirty things you may or may not already know about Resident Evil 5.

To read the preview, head on over to 1Up.

[Albert Wesker]

Get To The Point Already: The research notes and journals are pretty long-winded, but you should read them for the backstory nonetheless. RE5 does a lot to put the vast, labyrinthine Resident Evil plot in perspective and context.



Hell Yeah, Secrets!: RE5 has some unlockables that fans of the series will be very happy to see. This probably goes without saying, but it's obvious that the dev team covered all their bases when it came to the game's bonus features. Or most of them, at least. We still haven't found Akuma.

[BadWolfX]

Oh, this is interesting.

I lol'd at Power Stone.

Spoiler:

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Don't even have to damage some bosses, eh?

Ha!

....RE5 is not a short game, especially when compared to earlier entries in the series. But it's a more concise experience than RE4's unnecessarily lengthy 30-hour gunfest (remember the castles? Yeah you do).

[TheDivineBoss]

melee vest and bullet vest???

[revil5]

I honestly didn't need to know that useless info. I wanna know spoilers!! Like all the weapons, bonus modes, and secrets. I don't wanna wait til the games out.

[GuardhouseMusic]

Get To The Point Already: The research notes and journals are pretty long-winded, but you should read them for the backstory nonetheless. RE5 does a lot to put the vast, labyrinthine Resident Evil plot in perspective and context.



Hell Yeah, Secrets!: RE5 has some unlockables that fans of the series will be very happy to see. This probably goes without saying, but it's obvious that the dev team covered all their bases when it came to the game's bonus features. Or most of them, at least. We still haven't found Akuma.

Those two parts were my favorites too. I can only wonder at the extent of the developers "covering all their bases..." in terms of the unlockables. Large roster for mercs, spanning the series, perhaps?

[trist]

If we're getting more QTE then we better damn well get another laser room. I wanna see Chris and Sheva dodge that in co-op!

[Alexia_Ashford]

If we're getting more QTE then we better damn well get another laser room. I wanna see Chris and Sheva dodge that in co-op!

I hate laser rooms. No matter where you are, even in the middle of an isolated Spanish island, you still find laser rooms. Always so out of place. Please God, do not bring another laser room into RE5. It's been so overdone.

[trist]

Sorry Alexia, but I love 'em. So I hope we get one. But if you hate them so much, if we DO get one, you could always do it with your eyes closed.
Least you won't have to see it. Good luck making it though! LOL!

[Alexia_Ashford]

Laser rooms are dumb and copied straight from the films. It turns all of the moderately normal characters we know from the first games into acrobatics and they are always out of place and do not fit in with the setting, and have no real purpose. I don't see why they'd have a laser room in Africa.

[trist]

I actually thought they were gonna start adding them to all the future games, as long as the movies were around. We shall see....

[Vector]

Ergh...why did they have to ruin the whole list with that last bullet?

[Stars_g36]

that last one is messed up....

[nemesiswontdie]

Laser rooms are dumb and copied straight from the films. It turns all of the moderately normal characters we know from the first games into acrobatics and they are always out of place and do not fit in with the setting, and have no real purpose. I don't see why they'd have a laser room in Africa.

agreed

but i kinda think the stuff they wrote in there is pretty funny

except for the last one...

[Bertha]

If we're getting more QTE then we better damn well get another laser room. I wanna see Chris and Sheva dodge that in co-op!

Jill and Chris did the exact same thing in UC...and it wasn't cool at all. I agree with Alexia...the laser rooms are probably one of the most idiotic things to ever include in the games.

Ergh...why did they have to ruin the whole list with that last bullet?

Because god forbid we have an RE article and not mention Jill.