
Now working as a government agent, Leon is tasked with finding the president’s missing daughter, Ashley, a pursuit that takes him to a rural area of Europe. Kennedy, of Resident Evil 2 (and later RE6). With some graphical and control help, it still stands up as a terrific game, even if some of the very mechanics it pioneered serve to date it. Resident Evil 4 changed the nature of the franchise, and had a lasting effect on video games as a whole. Everything changed with Resident Evil 4 (actually the fifth main game in the series), as Capcom threw everything but the characters out the window, including the series’ trademark zombies. With tank controls and a constant need to conserve ammunition, tensions ran high, and encountering more than one enemy at a time was perilous.

In its early iterations the Resident Evil series personified survival horror.


Capcom continues their quest to put RE4 on every platform known to man.
