IGN's Hands-On with Resident Evil 5's Versus Mode

[Archelon]

For those who are still on the fence regarding Resident Evil 5's recently released Versus Mode, IGN has posted its impressions of the downloadable, competitive, multiplayer add-on for your benefit.

Head on over to IGN for the full story.

*UPDATE*

IGN has also posted several gameplay videos showing off the new mode in action.

Click here to view them.

*END UPDATE*

[misstvirus]

Oh sweet jesus.

[Mesker]

Seems like fun, but what's up with that techno music??

[Gradon]

The techno music is amazing.

[Sunglasses]

Why they compare RE5 to Gears Of War every time???... oh christ, if you wanna play a game like Gears just... play that damn game!
I'm sick of editors complaining about the RE5's control scheme... morons.
And however none uses the cover system while playing deathmatch modes online of Gears 2, they just run and shoot... that's just a mess of game mode where every second a player dies, nothing more nothing less, there's no tactic.
Every day I'm reading around the net how RE5 is RE4.5 and how his control scheme sucks, but why none is claiming about how Gears 2 is identical to the first one, and how the matchmaking system of Gears 2 sucks so bad compared with the previous one.
Actually Gears 2 is a backward step (the first one was a way better) and offers nothing new...ok, RE5 is not a big revolution but it's a good evolution of RE4.
Stop comparing Gears to Resi, IGN pleas stop acting like idiots.

[Vector]

The techno music is my favorite part of the new modes. Seriously. That song is hot.

[Daargoth]

eurobeat techno ftw!

running in the 90's!!!!!!!!!!!!


oh btw you can't spell ignorance without IGN....

[Henry Spencer]

The techno music is amazing.

It's actually on the official 3CD OST. The Mercenaries music is tracks 21-27 on CD 3 (the last seven tracks on the third disc).

The tracks are entitled:

21. Colors
22. Assault Fire
23. Dreamy Loops
24. On The Bass
25. Rust in Summer
26. KILLERS
27. Do You Challenge Again?

[Carnivol]

Why they compare RE5 to Gears Of War every time???

Ahahah. Oh yes! Nothing is better than someone always comparing something to something else when they're completely different.

I'm not gonna say that I don't tend to compare things to other things to give an indication of what something is or what something is not, but seriously... expecting the Resident Evil 5 Versus modes to be closely resembling like Gears of War 1-2, especially after having played Resident Evil 5 and Gears of War, is complete journalistic incompetence and ignorance.

[Stars1356]

Its funny how IGN said The characters aren't balanced for competitive play. It just seems completely lazy, like Capcom thought "add two more players and charge $5" instead of "how can we make an incredible competitive experience?" What did they expect from capcom. I think they did a good job on RE 5 and can say the production values of the game are great but when it comes to milking a franchise, well you get stuff like this.

[Carnivol]

My question is; WHY should they be more balanced?

Part of the fun in certain games' multiplayer modes is the very fact that some of the characters just aren't balanced, at all. Not to mention how that's a rather great thing when you play couch potato multiplayer with your friends. It's the variety of each character that is part of the charm.

(though, I do think there are a few things that should've been brushed up a bit in general in RE5's main scenario. But the multiplayer is somewhat fine "as-is", although I'd love to have some other familiar faces added to the soup)

[Darkmoon]

...because if the characters aren't balanced most folk will only play the ones that are hideously overpowered?