The combat is truly the focus here, and the fight is at its best when you're tackling the baddies with a buddy. RE5 pulls you ahead, enticing you toward a clear objective with the promise of more killing. Past Resident Evil games pushed you along with fear and instinct, forcing you to move from one area to the next to stay alive. The levels are laid out and paced well, the weapons are balanced nicely and I never got bored moving from one infested area to the next. Capcom has gone out on a limb with the latest numbered sequel in its long-running survival horror franchise, and although one of your goals as a player is to survive the horrors around you, this entry in the series is a radical departure from the genre Capcom helped create near Raccoon City more than a decade ago. Like the story it's trying to tell, Resident Evil 5 is all about evolution. It won't, in essence, make you feel like you're playing a traditional Resident Evil game. It won't have you collecting and counting bullets like they're precious stones. It won't fill you with creeping desperation. Resident Evil 5 offers all those things and then some, but it doesn't do many of the things longtime fans of the series expect. The resulting experience is an intense, action-packed adventure replete with satisfying combat, tight gameplay and gorgeous, well-crafted environments. And, as is the custom in a Resident Evil game, you drop into the situation woefully underprepared for what awaits. The citizens of Kijuju are going through some ugly changes, many of which involve tentacles, oozing eyeballs and heretofore unexplored bloodlust. A power-mad corporation's evolutionary manipulations have caused a biological disaster that turns people into mindless hosts for a military-grade parasitic infection. Just ask one of the unfortunate citizens of Kijuju, the fictional region of Africa that serves as the setting of Resident Evil 5, the latest entry in Capcom's ongoing zombie videogame saga.Resident evil 5 ps3 review ign series#