Wrestling
I played my first Resident Evil series game last week. I clocked approximately 5 hours of game play and defeated my first boss. Lord knows I was frustrated the whole time. Resident Evil 4, the entire series really, is not a sit and shooter. You can't rush in, blast the zombies, and rush to your next checkpoint. The decisions you make must be planned out and are executed in a flash. I had an experienced player coaching me the entire way. Still, I have never played a survival horror game. And the only strategy game I liked was Age of Empires, often with cheats on. Playing with a friend that could walk me through each level was fantastic. Except when I was left to thinking on my own and screwed up. This game made me feel so dumb. Just remembering to reload my pistol in preparation for a surprise zombie raid was a problem.
Considerations involved in its game play are: conserving pistol/grenade/shotgun ammo, combining herbs for health, using that health only when you are totally going to die, QTE (quick time events, aka press the button when it flashes on the screen for a millisecond), making a 180 degree turn to kill the old farmer who has a hatchet aimed at your head while being attacked by three other crazy farmers, and the sheer scariness of the game. I am not a horror movie fan. So when I was left to play it alone with the napping cats, I did get a little scared. The scariest part is in a village in Eastern Europe. All the villagers raid the house you enter and a guy with a chainsaw breaks in, rushes up the stairs, and rips your head off. Don't forget the people coming in through the windows on that second floor, from the roof and on a ladder. WHAT TO DO? Do you pull out your shotgun or stun them with a flash grenade? Plus the chainsaw guy is harder to kill. You'll shoot him and think he's gone, but......oh wait, he's getting up again! SCARY!
I'd suggest this game over Sudoku or CSI simulators for someone looking for a brain tease. Just remember: you always have a knife if you run out of ammo.
Considerations involved in its game play are: conserving pistol/grenade/shotgun ammo, combining herbs for health, using that health only when you are totally going to die, QTE (quick time events, aka press the button when it flashes on the screen for a millisecond), making a 180 degree turn to kill the old farmer who has a hatchet aimed at your head while being attacked by three other crazy farmers, and the sheer scariness of the game. I am not a horror movie fan. So when I was left to play it alone with the napping cats, I did get a little scared. The scariest part is in a village in Eastern Europe. All the villagers raid the house you enter and a guy with a chainsaw breaks in, rushes up the stairs, and rips your head off. Don't forget the people coming in through the windows on that second floor, from the roof and on a ladder. WHAT TO DO? Do you pull out your shotgun or stun them with a flash grenade? Plus the chainsaw guy is harder to kill. You'll shoot him and think he's gone, but......oh wait, he's getting up again! SCARY!
I'd suggest this game over Sudoku or CSI simulators for someone looking for a brain tease. Just remember: you always have a knife if you run out of ammo.