January 26th 2009 7:18 am PT

This game is pretty BA IMO. A lot of fun. Can’t wait till it comes out!

Don’t think people realize that they purposely force you to stand still to shoot. It adds to the Survival Horror part. If you could move and shoot then you would feel no sense of claustrophobia. You would simply run back and keep shooting dodging everyone, might as well be playing Gears… If I remember correctly you can shoot and walk on Dead Space and what did people say about that game? They said it was easy and not scary at all. Gee I wonder why…

T3kNi9e:
Well, RE4 wasn’t scary, RE5 isn’t that scary (not the demo atleast) but it’s not about making the game scary, it’s about adding tension and it gives co-op more weight, since you have to cover eachothers backs and such.

If you ask me, co-op in RE5 is much more fun and rewarding than co-op in Gears.

I like that you can’t move and shoot, and I like the fact that every game doesn’t have to be Gears or Halo, because that would suck. Hard.

Yeah Type A controls with Fastest aiming really should have been the defaults for this!

anyone have trouble joining friends in co-op? i can join random players but when i get invited or i invite someone, it says game cancelled ?

AWESOME!!! Just simply AWESOME!! This game is hot and finally scared me in co-op when my partner was chainsawed by the guy on the roof.

I only have three gripes – 1. Hosting and Inviting needs some work. 2. The first co-op play through was 100% PERFECTO!! But when we came back,the controls were ‘less’ responsive, as if they randomly changed or something. Also, we could not fire unless we switched weapons repeatedly (confuxed controls – not exactly confusing, we made do). 3. Are we going to have the option to be teams of two guys, two girls or even get to change our outfits in the full version? Example: Wesker’s S.T.A.R.S or Bravo uniforms respectively? 3. is not so important, but it would be nice.

This game is just purely AWESOME! Love the retro with the ‘plants for medicine’, nice, sweet touch. ‘Thanks Capcom’!

It looks great. The enviroments are great and the character modells are very good to.The 3rd person view is very important in this type of game as it can add to the drama of a situation, swaping weapons and gear between you and your partner is also a nice touch. The way you have to equip and change you gear in real time dose add to the tension and makes it a bit more realistic. My one and only gripe is that you must stand still to shoot and use the knife. It stops the flow of gameplay and dosnt feel natural that a person would become glued to the spot while using there weapons. I mean its just not right look at the arms on this guy. Im sure he could support a gun on the move.. Now i know it’s not a Gears of war or Halo style run and gun type of game but i do think very strongly that there should be some “slow” movement while targeting so that you can backup slowly and straff left/right. I also noticed (But dont care) that the lip synking is shocking the lips just keep moving up and down untill the taking stop’s but maybe there synked it japanese?
if it wasnt for the “glued to the spot” problem this game would have got the thumbs up but this has spoiled (for me) an otherwise exilent game!

@Anon 46
True, the ‘glued to the spot’ gun firing and knife action is a bit stiff. I do not complain only because I expect my partner to have my back in most situations and vice versa. It works well, well, until you’re separated. Maybe a slow ‘creep’ with gun (or knife) at the ready could be unlocked later for game play (kind of like the ‘run’ in Lost Planet: Lost Colonies)?

@KaiQom
Yuppers, everyone is having that issue. My party of 8 had that issue for a bit. Eventually it worked.

i have played the demo too…and i really love it…it reminds me on RE4. The Graphics are just amazing on HD. The aiming is a littlebit to slow in my opinion but the rest is all good…cant complain…and the cut-scenes are just delicious.Will be a great game for sure

MeS FEAR, did you change the default aiming speed to Fastest? That definitely helps!

I was excited to play the demo…and dissapointed when I played it. The control scheme is really sh*tty (changing weapons is horrible) and as people have mentioned… not being able to move and shoot (I dont care if the old games had that or not) is just annoying. It doesn’t add to the claustrophobic sense of the game either, it is just plain unrealistic and stupid. The game isn’t scary at all either!! The Zombies, while there are a lot of them… move at about 1 mile an hour and just look like poor people…scary if you are afraid of the homeless maybe.

Plus the Japanese-ness of the game makes the dialog sooooo cheeseball.

If you like survival horror… get Dead Space…Awesome game…terrifying… great gameplay, story, voice acting etc.

Its a shame really. I was really looking forward to it.

Why did my 360 have to red ring this week? Falcon chip too…

weak sauce. controls are horrible. MEH!

Anon 49, how is changing weapons horrible? All you have to do is put your weapons in your inventory into a spot that corresponds to a direction on your D-pad, and then press that direction on it while playing to switch weapons. Can’t get much simpler than that!

Is anyone else having problems joining an online co-op game with a friend? I’ll accept a game invite from a friend, the game will go to the sheva loading screen and after a few seconds the game will say “the session has been canceled.”

I’ve tried hosting and the person on the other end says the same thing happens to them.

Its a little more enjoyable in Co-op mode…. going back to it and playing it a while you do get used to not being able to move while shooting but its far from perfect. I dont see why you cant have an option to move slow while aiming that u can toggle in the options or something. Perhaps that would please RE purists and the rest of us. I hate the controls as ive said before but its something you can get used to in co-op mode. It does hurt the game like it is now for a couple of reasons: one is the fluidity of the game, just from a gameplay point of view. Its awkward and unnatural to have to lower your gun, turn and run or back up slowly when you have enemies who dont have to abide by the same rule set. Secondly, yes we have been spoilt by games like Gears2 and Dead Space. Its obvious the majority of people prefer those types of controls these days and having to go back X number of years is in this day and age unnecessary. I said before that being able to slow walk while aiming would not harm the game, nor would it detract from it being a survival horror, it doesnt make it a run and gun game just cuz you can move a little while shooting. I have always loved the Res Evil series and I will prob still pick this up for Co-op play, but as far as reviews go and peoples reactions once it hits the shops is going to be similar to here, some will be purists and like the controls and the rest of us will hate them but have to put up with them.

You silver members need to just suck it up and pay for a real Xbox Live membership, I really don’t even see a point for Silver Anyway, Microsoft has to run the servers for all this stuff and therefore should be compensated for it. A mere $4 bucks a month (Cheaper if you find a 13 month card online for about $30) is nothing compared to the value I get from my Gold Membership. That being said, I’m sure the demo will be available for Silver in the next couple of weeks. Until then, have fun waiting .

When is it available to silver members

I hear ya Warrengonline, I’m a sucker for Limited Edition versions of games too (damn you GameStop!). That’s part of the reason why I have a backlog of games too big than I care to admit.

And once again for those (like Anon 54) who haven’t figured it out yet in this demo, you can map some of your inventory items to the d-pad for quick access during combat. I think you can map you to 4 inventory items to the 4 main d-pad directions. I like to have 2 weapons, a combined herb and grenades mapped to my d-pad. There’s a brief lying on the ground at the beginning of the Shanty Town level that mentions this too I believe.