Jul 28 2009
Resident Evil 4 Released For iPhone
Well Resident Evil 4 has launched for iPhone, and it’s horrifically bad. A title that could have really helped the iPhone’s bid to make itself into a gaming platform all it’s own, really fell completely flat, which is sad because Resident Evil 4 is the best RE game ever. I’m disappointed to see it gutted in this way. We all knew the graphics would suffer, obviously, and that’s not my main problem. Well actually graphics are a problem when you lose track of enemies because they are so poorly rendered you lose them in the poorly rendered backgrounds.
But the main problem here is that some of RE 4’s best bits have been scrapped to help the game confine to the iPhone’s restrictions, and what you receive is an incomplete compilation of Resident Evil 4 sequences, complete with horrific controls that will have you dead more times than you would like. Seriously, iPhone controls are typically bad for games like this, but I think Resident Evil 4 took them to a whole new level. What you really have here is an ugly, shoddy, uncontrollable mobile experience that will set you back $7.99 for the privilege of buying a digital product bearing the Resident Evil name.
