| | |  | DVD MOVIES | Home » » Resident Evil 4 | | | | | | | Description: | | Resident Evil Reinvented!Product InformationAs U.S. agent Leon Kennedy looks into the abduction of the President's daughterhis investigation leads to a mysterious location in Europe.Encountering unimaginable horrors he must find out what is behind the terror. Product Features Experience the thrill-a-minute Resident Evil 4! Now the smash hit award-winning game delivers exciting new gameplay and bonus features: New chapters - play as Ada Wong in "Separate Ways" 5 terrifying adrenaline-pumping missions that reveal additional horrific surprise New weapons including the P.R.L.412 laser cannon and the Gunpowder Bowgun New unlockable costumes for Leon and Ashley Unsurpassed visuals with breathtaking 3D graphics and effects. Fast-paced edge-of-your-seat action. New gameplay mechanics -- behind-the-back camera perspective & hit zone aiming system. Windows Requirements Windows 2000 and XP (only) 1.4 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor (2.4 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon recommended) 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended) 128 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant AGP / PCI Express w/ Shader 2.0 or higher Video Card (256 MB recommended for High Graphics Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: NVIDIA GeForce 6 / 7 families ATI Radeon X series (X200 NOT supported) DirectX 9.0c compliant (or better) Sound Card DirectX 9.0c or higher (included on disc) 4X or faster DVD-ROM drive 7 GB (full install only) Hard Drive space Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible keyboard Windows-compatible gamepad (4-axis dual analog sticks with 12 or more buttons required) | | | Features: | |
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| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.35 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Release Date:
| May 15, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 66 reviews |
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| Windows XP | | Media:
| DVD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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31 of 35 found the following review helpful:
Lost in translationJun 23, 2007
By N. Durham
"Big Evil"
If you've been living under a rock since 2005, then you've never gotten wind of Resident Evil 4. A departure in terms of gameplay and design for Capcom's long running survival horror franchise, Resident Evil 4 marked the best entry in the series, as well as the best survival horror game of all time when it was first released on the Gamecube. Eventually the game would be released on the PS2 (and recently the excellent version that just came out for the Wii), and now it's finally on the PC. Sadly though, so much of what made Resident Evil 4 so great on the consoles has been lost in translation in this port to the PC, making PC gamers wonder what all the fuss was about with Resident Evil 4 in the first place. While the game still features it's ultra creepy atmoshphere and heart pounding moments of suspense, the fact that the game cannot be played with a mouse is pure blasphemy. A controller is essential here because of that, and the fact that the keyboard controls are sloppy and annoying to boot. Once you get over that hurdle, you'll find that despite the atmosphere of the game, the cut-scenes and even some other parts look incredibly blurry and stilted. You can't play around with the visuals of Resident Evil 4 either, and considering how long this PC version of the game was in development, the overall package just feels rushed. Not to mention that this PC port features no new exclusive content either. All the negatives aside though, Resident Evil 4 for the PC is still pretty much the Resident Evil 4 we all know and love, and if you own a gamepad, there's plenty of excitement to be found here. Combine that with the budget price tag, and you still get a solid survival horror game that is worth a look. That is, if you don't own a console. If you own one of the aforementioned console systems, pick Resident Evil 4 up for that system, but if you don't, well then, this PC version loses much of what made the console game so great in the first place.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 From a long time survival horror fanJun 22, 2007
By Randy Keeling
From a long time survival horror fan
I am both an avid PC game player and a fan of the survival horror genre. Sadly, most of the "good" survival horror games have been on console systems. I saw "Resident Evil 4" for the PC and thought I would give it a try. This has to be one of the worse PC games I have ever tried.
It is a port from the consoles (PS2, Gamecube, etc) in which Ubisoft has done nothing to accommodate the PC format. You cannot use a mouse (WASD for movement and arrow keys for looking around). This makes aiming, navigating, and interacting with the environment difficult at best. If one used a dual axis control this might work (like would have to be done on a Playstation for example). However, if I had wanted to use a gamepad to play the game, I would have bought it for a console system.
The graphics are flat, dry and lack any depth. While this is not a deal breaker for me, it is very annoying after you see the game on a Playstation 2. Hundreds of dollars on RAM, video cards and a processor and the best Capcom/Ubisoft can do is give me 1997 graphical textures to process on my machine.
The menus are horrid. To exit the game you must "Reset Game", very intuitive; the arrow keys do not work to navigate the menus; you must use the WASD keys, etc. This is another example of the mindless port job that was done to this.
I recall seeing trailers for this game years ago and now that I have played it I am very sad. Perhaps the only thing worse than this game is the fact that because of the no return of "open software" policy that most every store has in place, there is no way for me to return a very bad product!
As a point of reference I consider the following to be "good" survival horror games: Fatal Frame 1, Fatal Frame 2, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill 4.
38 of 49 found the following review helpful:
Worthless crap DOES NOT support a mouse!Jun 18, 2007
By DreadWolf
I waited two years for the PC version so that I wouldn't have to use sorry gamepad controls, then when I finally get it it doesn't even support a mouse at all! Despite the statement that it does support "windows compatible mouse and keyboard" on the game box!
I feel totally cheated - I don't have a gamepad so I can't even play it!
You can't even use a mouse on the selection screens! What did Ubisoft do for two years?
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Broken controls make it unplayableJun 28, 2007
By wihogfan
"wihogfan"
I had never played Resident Evil 4 before getting the Wii version last week. I loved the Wii version so much that I picked up this port for the PC so that I could play it on my laptop while traveling. I've spent about 6 hours trying to play the PC version over the last few days and have determined that it is unplayable due to horrible controls. It has taken me those 6 hours to get to the same point in the game that it took me a half hour to get to on the Wii version. Playing the game with a Gamepad was slightly better than playing with just the keyboard, as was downloading an unofficial patch that enabled use of the mouse (I even tried using a hack that someone created to play the game on the PC using the Wii controller). No matter what control scheme I've tried, the lack of precision aiming and movement makes the game totally unenjoyable and frustrating. I still highly recommend the Wii version of the game, but save your money and avoid the PC version at all costs.
24 of 32 found the following review helpful:
A $20 CoasterAug 19, 2007
By L. Deleon
"Jazz Guitarist"
This game is non-functional on the PC. The game package says "Peripherals Supported: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard", this is a flat out lie.
As you have probably learned from the other reviews, it does not support mouse. Not only that, even the keyboard doesn't work. After playing the game for 5 minutes a menu / screen opened, and I could not get out of it because there was no button on the keyboard mapped to close the menu. I would have had to drive to the local gamer store, purchase a console controller, in order to close that menu. The manual that comes with the PC game is actually the CONSOLE MANUAL, thereby making it completely useless because all the instructions refer to how to make it work with your CONSOLE. No mention anywhere of PC controls. All of the ingame menus and ques that come up refer to the standard console controller buttons...which of course I don't have, why would I? I own a PC. THey didn't even take the time to map really obvious console controller buttons to really obvious keyboard buttons, for example, the numbered buttons on the console controller could have been easily mapped to the numbers on the keyboard --- they did not do this. Infact, the very menu that I could not close had a note such as "to close this menu hit console controller button 5", and yet hitting the keyboard button 5 did not do anything. This is a no brainer, just map the console controller button 5, to keyboard button 5. It is unfathomable how anyone could be so lazy. If you don't mind going out and purchasing essentially a console controller, in order to play this game on your PC, then it may be a 2 star game instead of a 1 star.
Until I bought this game, I've never had to delete a game from my hard drive within 10 minutes or less of installing it. I now own a $20 coaster, that is the best use for the game disk I can find.
I might not be as annoyed if they had at least said on the package "Game console controller required to play". Though, for a pc game, there is no excuse not to have mouse support. If you are going to take the time to port a console game over to a PC, at least take the time to make it work on a standard PC. I guarentee you 99% of people who EXCLUSIVELY own/play games on a PC do not own console style controllers, there is no need, all PC games ever created, except this one, have mouse support. Compared to console controllers, the "mouse" system works 10x better for ALL types of games. If you have been playing on a PC all these years, like some of us, you would know that.
horrible, horrible, horrible. I will never buy another title from this company, or a console to pc game, ever again.
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