"Kijuju!"

Via the Capcom Blog comes news of the competition of the day.

To promote Resident Evil 5 contestants are encouraged to scour the streets around Trafalgar Square searching for body parts that have been placed in the area. Should your search be successful then head to Westminster Bridge before 11am this morning, hold your recovered body part high in the air and shout "Kijuju!". The Capcom team promise to make themselves known to successful contestants.

Each body part has a value. Arms and legs are worth 2 points, a torso 3 and a head 5. The player who accumulates the most points by 11am wins a trip to Africa. Get searching! You only have 2 hours left .. .. .. .. .. ..

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Looking good!

I downloaded and tried out the Resident Evil 5 demo on Monday night and I have to say that it looks utterly gorgeous. If a survival horror can be described as gorgeous that is. The environments are stunning and exceptionally realistic and the main characters are as life like as any perfect looking humans would, I guess, look. Capcom have pulled out all the stops here.

Memories of the awesome RE4 came flooding back to me as I set off running down the dusty, winding track. The gameplay of the demo feels identical to RE4, I played through the Game Cube version, and as soon as I started to move around and aim there was a feeling of natural familiarity. Great to see the over the shoulder camera, that refreshed RE4 so much, is in full use in RE5. Claustrophobia here I come!

If you're familiar with Resident Evil you'll recognise lots of the series usual items. The herbs are here to collect and combine as you wish and the dead zombies melt away revealing piles of gold and ammo. Breaking open boxes with your knife is staple RE stuff and it’s here too. So is standing still to shoot. Yes it's still in there! I guess it's part of RE lore but come on! Running and shooting at the same time would have been a nice improvement Capcom.

After playing through both the demo levels of Resident Evil 5 my opinion of the game and my desire to play the full version has changed. It's gone from my "must have" list to my "maybe" list. Despite the hot and dusty setting of the game I've been left feeling a bit cold and disappointed.

It could be all the expectation and hype that’s been surrounding the game, though I haven’t been too wrapped up in that, or it could just be that what I’ve played so far isn’t a great leap from RE4. Improved visuals notwithstanding. It could also be that Dead Space took survival horror to a new level whereas Resident Evil appears to have stood still. Maybe reading some RE5 reviews will put the game back to "must have". Or maybe not.


Resident Evil going stale and rotten? Sounds like it should pull up a chair next to Gameov3r

Forum member and Gameov3r's personal butler, Captainff, gives us his impressions of Capcom’s We Love Golf!

To start off with you can play with one of four characters, each of whom has 6 different outfits they can wear. You then choose what kind of game you want from simple practice to some mini-game style 'nearest the pin' or 'ring shot' (no sniggering Tooms!) to a tournament (only 18 holes, not 72) or character match. Winning, or completing, each of these then unlocks further challenges for you to overcome, or extra outfits, or new characters for you to play. Which is good because the biggest challenge I have at the moment is maintaining the will to trawl through the beginner stages of the game.

WHAT!?

Yes. So far this game is incredibly easy to me.

Way back in the mists of teenagehood I used to play golf games with a friend on his Amiga 500. Many of you may remember the swing mechanism .. .. .. click to start the swing, click to set the power at the top of the swing, click as the swing rushes back to hit the ball true (or hook or slice). A similar mechanism is employed in We Love Golf! except it involves the motion sensing on the wiimote. Press 'A' to start the shot and then swing the wiimote backwards while watching the power gauge .. .. .. hold it in position until the 'ghost club' reaches it then, swing the wiimote forwards so that it crosses the start line at the same time as the ghost club for a clean shot. Too early or too late produces hook or slice. This whole process can be performed using the 'A' button .. .. .. click, click, click but that would remove some of the fun.

The wiimote motion sensing is also used when setting up your shots. Point the wiimote up at the ceiling for an overhead view, point it down at the floor to take the shot, point at the TV to see a view down the fairway to the green. It works really well and is intuitive to use.

Keeping in mind that this isn't a serious golf game, I think the physics of the game are relatively good. The spangly music, cartoony graphics, silly catchphrases and animations when you sink a putt, the relative stupidity of the opponents to begin with, all point to a game that is designed to ease the non-golfer into the game gently.

Back to the difficulty of the game for a moment. I've not played a golf game for over 15 years and in my first tournament game, once I'd played some of the other modes to learn the controls, I scored -19 over 18 holes and my nearest opponent was 37 strokes behind at +18. Other people who have played it more than me have reported a Pro level in the game so hopefully the 1 player experience will eventually provide some challenges, because at the moment for me it is ridiculously easy. I suppose that if you have NEVER played a golf game that this would be a great place to start because you can make errors and still feel like you have achieved progress.

What I'm most looking forward to is meeting up with real people online and pitting my skills against theirs. Yes that's right. Online. As well as the ability to play with up to 4 players locally Capcom have included an online option. Play against friends or strangers online. I've yet to try it out for two reasons .. .. .. .. firstly I wanted to get an understanding of the game and secondly it seems that I'm the only person on the forum who has bought it!

Overall : So far I'm enjoying it but it isn't providing me much of a challenge yet. 7.5/10

Many thanks Captain.

GAMEOV3R will be pleased with you. He may even allow you a night off!