QTF!

Well i aint hardly been off it since last Thursday.
Only need 3 Achievements on it now,
beat it on pro
get all figures
do the bigass combo thing

Epic game imo

What is funny, is people claiming RE was originally about zombies, it's strayed from it's roots is funny. RE was never about Zombies, it was about developing a biological weapon, to be used against people and to make people into a biological weapon. Sure at first this meant zombies, if you ever actually read the documents found, game per game you would notice. In zero it talks about the origin of the virus. In code veronica they mention an origin point of the leeches. Each RE is just building on top of that, if it changes genre it can't hurt it, because it never was a specific genre, when RE4 came out, it wasn't a new strain, but a whole new idea on bio-weapons, which of course was a plagus. In RE4 they even talk about finding the origin, which is linked to Africa.

just played it last night for a few hours, i felt exactly like i was playing resident evil 4, everything moved the same and the i put the controls as the same. I can't really say it's a step forward for the series, i mean there is really only a few things that you can argue move the series forward at all. The weapon switch is cool, partner is kinda cool but the ai is horrible so i often wish she wasn't there.

i enjoyed it simply in the same way i enjoyed RE4 because it is basically RE4 all over again, but i certainly hoped for more.

Resident Evil 5 may be a good action game. However, Resident Evil fans would probably have the following problems with it.

Co-op makes the action for fun, but takes away from the survival horror aspect.
Game is too open, space wise, and spends to much time in daylight.
Game is not scary.
Game does not emphasize ammo conservation (compared to the original).

Resident Evil 4 was a interesting deviation from the original RE formula. Many fans seemed to like it, knowing that it wasn't a true RE game and wasn't as scary because of it. At this point, RE5 should just be called a different series.

This,hence the name BIOhazard,all we know RE6 could be Unreal engine 3 and be straight shooter.

Bought just a few hours ago. Sitting next to me here in my desk. Will start playing in a bit. :D

I'd be curious to see how this all played out if there was a Wii version released alongside the x360/ps3 versions. I see atleast some bitterness because this isn't on the Wii. I'm just speculating of course, but I'd bet that there'd be much less negativity surrounding this game if there was a Wii version.

Again, if you liked RE4, this game should be right up your alley. Considering how many people here played RE4 on gc/ps2 the control issue is kind of a moot point. I don't really get the bulk of the complaints that I read about this game.

 Agreed. Capcom did a good job with RE5.