Resident Evil 4: Impressions (PS2)

[IllegalPaladin]

Since I've never played the GC version (save for 5 minutes when my friend brought it over when she bought it) so I can't exactly compare the AI's, but it doesn't make for exciting gameplay unless you're stopping a swing at you at point blank range or you realize you're about to get whacked as you're turning to find the source of an hostile grunt. However, it is cool (though repetitive) and ammo effective to do a leg shot and suplex enemies which takes care of the weaker guys instantly. Another fun thing is when you get the guys clumped up and you whip out your shotgun and take all or most of them out with one shot (same thing with a frag grenade).

Part of my argument of the combat is how stupid these guys are stupid with anything explosive (not to mention how they pull things out of their ass o_0, but many games do that lol). It's cool to shoot the TNT in mid-air and have it hurt them or even kill a guy while he's holding TNT so it blows up on nearby enemies. However, these guys apparently aren't able to tell if there is anything in the path of their weapon and they'll simply kill themselves without as much as an attempt to shoot them on my part. For example, guys with rocket launchers pop out of a hidden panel on a wall (the picture slides up or something like that) and I run behind some cover so I don't get hit, but then I hear an explosion and a scream. I'm not sure exactly where they shot, but from their location, they must have been aiming at the edge of the stone window like space where they were looking out of. Another example just happened a few minutes ago in the gear room where I'm trying to extend a bridge. A guy throwing TNT was a level or two above me while I was fighting guys on the ground floor and apparently he didn't have the programming to check his aim because I hear an explosion and a scream and that was the end of him. I'm thinking he either bounced it off an object when he threw it and it came back at him or he merely threw it on the floor because he was locked onto me and it landed right at his feet.