LEON ME

The RESIDENT EVIL 4 remake isn’t the greatest game ever made: this is just a tribute

- Rich Stanton

NEED TO KNOW 

WHAT IS IT? A remake of one of the best action games ever made

EXPECT TO PAY £50

DEVELOPER Capcom

PUBLISHER In-house

REVIEWED ON Core i5-12400F, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 2060

MULTIPLAYER No

LINK residentevil.com

Much like Leon S Kennedy, Capcom was never in for an easy ride with this one. There are games so forward-thinking and complete that they shape entire corners of our industry. In Resident Evil 4’s case, every third-person game since has worn its love for Capcom’s masterpiece on its over-the-shoulder sleeves: Gears of War, Dead Space and The Last of Us run because Capcom showed them how to walk. This is a remake of a game that remade a genre.

Capcom almost managed it and, for the longest time, you’ll think it did. The opening is outstanding, streamlining the original route into the village in order to get you into the first big set piece: a knock-down drag-out village brawl that, almost immediately, takes place with the constant sound of a chainsaw revving as its malicious owner chases Leon everywhere.