A small rural town located somewhere in Spain is the setting for Resident Evil 4, one of the most influential action games in the history of interactive media that is back today in style. The Japanese Capcom publishes this Friday around the world the remake of the fourth installment of its most successful series, an update that suits a modern classic for which the years do not pass.
When it was originally released for the GameCube in 2005, Resident Evil 4 was not only a change of scenery, but also a revolution for this successful franchise. The fourth installment stopped putting the accent on terror to focus on action, a turn that was not initially seen with good eyes, but with the game in hand it was revealing.
The adventure starring agent Leon S. Kennedy, who had the mission of rescuing the daughter of the president of the United States after she had been kidnapped by a sect of infected, had neither head nor tail, but it was tremendously fun. This was the key to Resident Evil 4, presenting an action game with a fast pace and many features that, over the years, ended up becoming standards of the genre.
Almost two decades later, Resident Evil 4 returns with a remake that maintains the hilarious story of the original title and all its action, but also completely revamps its visual section and adds some playable improvements. The updating in the graphics is up to what we already saw in the remakes of the second and third installments: a show.
The remake enters through the eyes. Going through those forests, towns, castles and secret laboratories again with the new visual (and sound) finish is like being before a new experience. New features also contribute to this, perhaps less striking, but just as decisive, such as the absence of loading times. Now practically all of the game’s scenarios are interconnected, giving the whole game greater coherence and verisimilitude.
In the Resident Evil 4 remake there are other novelties, such as new weapons or the incorporation of the much-used parry –a counterattack movement present in many current games–, but none of them change too much an experience that despite the years keeps its character intact. ability to entertain The only weakness of this update is that the original title was already so round that, not even decorating it with a new generation packaging, has it managed to propose something new.
