Indeed, it’s almost essential that you dip into Mercenary Mode if you want to make decent progress in Story Mode. This bite-sized approach makes the mode far more suited to mobile play. Here you run through the same environments, trying to rack up the best score possible in three minutes. At its heart RE4: ME is an old skool score-attack shooter, a fact that’s emphasised by the mode that runs parallel to the Story Mode - Mercenary Mode. If you haven’t played the console original the story will make very little sense to you, but that doesn't matter too much. Due to the highlights-package nature of the game, there are huge leaps in time and location, with the ensuing plot holes insufficiently filled by some hastily scrawled expositional text (an early example: “this caused stock prices to pummel”). While the plot mattered in the original, however, it takes a definite back seat in Mobile Edition.
On his first day on the job he’s sent off to rescue the President’s daughter, who has been kidnapped by a strange cult called Los Illuminados. That back belongs to one Leon Kennedy, ex-cop and new recruit to the US Secret Service. You make your way cautiously through each self-contained level, picking off rabid villagers while keeping an eye on your ammo counter - not to mention your own back. The action is very simple, playing out as an over-the shoulder third person shooter. True, the textures look a little ropey up close, and the lack of detail and muddiness of the palate can make enemies hard to see at mid-distance, but the overall effect is very pleasing.
It does so very effectively, with a particularly impressive draw distance and some decent animation. While Degeneration featured boxy enclosed spaces, though, RE4: ME needs to present larger, more organic environments such as a dilapidated European village and a creepy old mine. What we have here is a veritable highlights package of the original, bringing to the fore some of the most memorable sections and trimming a lot of the narrative fat.īy using a modified version of the Resident Evil: Degeneration engine, Capcom has managed to create a dozen or so convincing approximations of some of the stand-out moments in the original. We know that a total conversion of Resident Evil 4 is impossible, but nothing less than a faithful distillation of that great game will do for the legions of shuffling fans.įortunately, that’s exactly what Capcom has achieved. Such is the problem faced by Capcom with Resident Evil 4: Mobile Edition - the iPhone edition of one of the finest and most technically accomplished console games of recent years. How do you present a slighter, leaner version without sacrificing the feel of the original? Whether you’re a movie editor working on a visionary director’s overlong opus or a writer working on an abridgement of a classic novel, you face the same difficult task.
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