Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 is the sixth installment in the Resident Evil series and is often noted for its departure from the fixed camera angles of earlier titles. It introduced an over-the-shoulder third-person…
Resident Evil 4 is an adventure developed by Capcom Production Studio 4, released 11 January 2005 on Nintendo GameCube. It currently starts at $9.24 at Gamesplanet. The main story takes about 24 hrs to finish.
What Resident Evil 4 is
Resident Evil 4 is an adventure game developed by Capcom Production Studio 4 and released in 2005. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game's main protagonist is Leon S. Kennedy, one of the few survivors of the Raccoon City incident, who was recruited and trained by the US Government to become a special agent after they learned of his actions in Raccoon City. Now an agent for a special security agency, Leon is sent to Spain on a mission to rescue Ashley Graham, the President's daughter, who has been kidnapped by a mysterious cult organization.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Resident Evil series
Resident Evil 4 is the 30th of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Resident Evil 4: GameStop Special Edition in 2005. Its critic score of 82 is 8 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.
How it was received
Resident Evil 4 holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 1,699 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 24 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $9.24, that works out to about $0.39 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel Core i5-7500, 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon RX 560 with 4GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB VRAM. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.24 at Gamesplanet, 77% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Resident Evil 4 launched on 11 January 2005, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4 (2005), Gran Turismo 4, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4 (2005), Gran Turismo 4, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Resident Evil 4 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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