Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition
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Previously only seen during cut scenes of the original RESIDENT EVIL 5, the first new episode titled “LOST IN NIGHTMARES”, finds BSAA agent, Chris Redfield, working with his partner, Jill Valentine, as they investigate Ozwell E. Spencer’s hideaway. Spencer, the evil mastermind and co-founder of Umbrella Corporation, has been hiding a new evil deep within the basement of his mansion. Chris and Jill discover this grotesque evil standing in their way as the two enter deeper into the catacombs beneath the mansion. Simultaneous with the release of “LOST IN NIGHTMARES”, new costumes for Chris and Sheva will be made available, allowing the player to experience RESIDENT EVIL 5 with a fresh new look and feel through both game play and cut-scene playback. A new refresh of Mercenaries Mode, “ THE MERCENARIES REUNION”, gives players new playable characters and weapon load outs which provide players additional challenges as they aim to shoot down as many enemies as they can within a limited time. Each piece of downloadable content will contain two new playable characters. The GOLD EDITION will feature all eight.
Features
- Features new modernized third-person action game control variations as well as the return of the traditional Resident Evil 4 control schemes.
- Gold Edition extras including all of the original content, two new episodes, four new costumes, an updated Mercenaries Mode and online RE5 versus mode.
- Two playable characters in the standard campaigns, including new character Sheva Alomar, an African BSAA agent tasked with investigating the epidemic.
- New cooperatively-focused gameplay that revolutionizes the way that Resident Evil is played. Chris and Sheva must work together to survive new challenges and fight dangerous hordes of enemies.
- Quick-Select inventory system that allows items to be traded between characters. To add to the intensity, all inventory management is done in real time; items can even be assigned to the directional pad for instant access.
- Dimensions (W x H x L): 5 x 1 x 7 inches
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If u dont have a friend to play it with u
ur going to get bored fast as I did, should of rented it off gamefly.
Fun for one play-through with a friend.
I had purchased RE5 for the 360 when it first came out but repurchased RE5:Gold Edition for the PS3 to play with my PS3 buddies.
My main gripe with this game is that I personally only find it fun when playing with a friend of mine, playing with random strangers is usually a good alternative but nearly no one (including myself) has a microphone to communicate with each other on PSN. Playing with the robotic Sheva is a bit of a pain at times but for the most part she’s reliable and can take care of herself. Another thing I find a bit frustrating is the length of RE:5, the main game can be beaten easily within 6-7 hours… there’s a professional mode you can unlock if you beat the game in veteran mode and once you beat it on any difficult you also unlock the two DLC chapters so there is some replay value.
The game plays in chapter format there are 8 (2 being the DLC) in total each one taking about .5-1.5 hours. As you play the game you can also collect treasures which you can then sell to upgrade your weapons sort of like in Resident Evil 4 only instead of getting upgrades and items through that awesome vendor masked man you do it through sections of the chapters in a menu screen.
The graphics are fine, I never had any technical issues as far as framerate. The music is theatrical, the voice actors are a mix of bad and good but the ones that are bad are INTENDED to be bad along with campy dialog which is what makes Resident Evil (previous example: “You were almost a Jill Sandwich!”) you will notice the “bad” voice acting and dialog mostly with a character by the name of Irving in this game.
So once you beat the game you can play the two DLC chapters, one is a prequel with Jill and Chris and the other is what I consider a plot hole filler, I’m not spoiling but it basically explains where 2 sub characters were at while Chris and Sheva were doing their mission. The gold edition also adds some nice features like “The Mercenaries Reunion” which includes previously unplayable characters in RE5 as well as some old favorites from Resident Evil 1, Sheva and Chris also receive new alternative costumes.
If you and a friend are bored and have some cash to rent this game I would suggest doing so it’s pretty fun even in split-screen.
I’d only recommend the hardcore Resident Evil fans to buy this since it has a lot of throw backs to the original Resident Evil and other then that theres really nothing about this game that screams a must buy.
…and well this doesn’t really matter but the actual game cover for this game is very attractive, it has a slip cover over the PS3 Game Case which is shines making it look like gold… go figure.
(Like I said… doesn’t matter but seriously if you see it in stores it really stands out)
This is the real RS5
I’m die hard fan of this game. I have just about every Resident Evil in my library. I bought the RS5 for Xbox and loved it. I bought the Gold Edition for the 360 brand new. I have bought everything for the Xbox necessary to get the extra content downloaded (new adapter, 250 hard drive, Xbox live membership, the mike and keyboard, etc…etc ). Well after a dozen tries, I can’t get Mercenaries Reunion to play and the extra figures to display. So, what is a die hard fan to do. Well, cough up another $50 bucks to get the game for PS3 and it works like a charm. Sorry, Xbox but I guess, in the future, I’ll buy the PS3 version of the games from now on. I don’t appreciate paying and not getting what I paid for.
This game is incredible. Very few titles can live up to the quality of the game play RS5 has. Love 3rd person games. I can’t wait for the next release. I love playing it with my son.
Best two-player co-op story mode game ever
note: just found out that gold edition is compatible with the playstation move.
Fun game,
Contrary to popular belief, Online versus mode (multiplayer) is fun. Even though You can’t run in gun, Resident Evil 5 makes it still fun. The way it works around the typical run and gun is while your fighting each other, zombies are attacking both of you. So one second you’re aiming at your opponent and a zombie stabs you. It’s really fun.
Story is perfect
Mercenaries & Mercenaries Reunion is awesome
lost in nightmare is really fun and goes old school for us
Desperate Escape is crazy hard but fun
fun game, interesting story, and great replay value
Recommendation: play harder difficulties after beating one difficulty
Nice..
I’m nearly speachless. Years ago many capcom, resident evil, and survival horror fans bought the same game without the extra content for a *higher* price, then bought the content separately for $12. Way to rip off your fans, Capcom.
die zombies die!!
Ok so from what I understand the enimies in this game ARE NOT zombies..but whatever…a fun game….use the d-pad to cycle through ur weapons and shoot your way through this fun and excited third person shooter…..I don’t have the “gold edition” but I did download all the DLC for this game…and I like it all….I wish Chris’s costumes matched with sheva’s…but it’s not a dealbreaker both the new episodes are about an hour each…but at only $5 per episode..it works out just fine…..I would highly reccomend this fun fun fun game…e-mail me if you want specifics…my psn sn is musicfan28….later…ps..BUY THIS GAME!!!!
Helluva Steal
Purchased this game from Amazon a couple of months ago back in April & couldnt be more pleased. This Gold Edition of the title bunches together all of the add-on content originally for sale on the Playstation(tm) Network together & puts it all on one disc saving you a chunk of money. With all the add-on content & different game modes included in this package it gives you reason to still play even long after the story mode is completed. A must buy for any hardcore Resident Evil fan. Deffinitely one of the better purchases I’ve made from Amazon.
The complete version of Resident Evil 5
**As a special side note please be aware that ONLY the PlayStation 3 version includes all the content on 1 disc, the 360 version of Gold Edition comes with a download voucher, which requires High speed internet access and a Xbox Live account to download the extra content without those you can not access the extra content on Xbox 360**
This game is essentially a HD version of RE4 with a co-op (2 player) online or AI (computer controlled) partner. This game is best with another player controlling Sheva but its perfectly fine as a single player game too. This Gold Edition re-release includes the following:
Lost in Nightmares bonus mission
Desperate Escape bonus mission
Mercenaries Reunion battle game
Barry Burton, Rebecca Chambers and Excella Gionne as playable characters in Mercenaries Reunion mode.
4 new costumes (2 for Sheva and 2 for Chris)
Extra in game figures to collect
Online player vs player Versus mode.
Overall this is a very good deal for those that passed on the original release.
Flawed, but fun
Resident Evil 5 may have the misfortune of being stuck with the label “Resident Evil 4 HD,” but there are worse things in world to be compared to. RE5 itself was never quite was RE4 was — weak story, poor direction, lack of scares, bland environments, and annoyingly incessant cutscenes — but that never stopped it from being an incredible action game. It controls similarly to RE4, only with an increased focus on melee attacks and relentless action (the game thankfully adds a ton of small control tweaks to help you out).
The Gold edition is a great value if you’ve never played the original RE5 — the bonus content packed in adds a ton of replay value to an already replayable game. Even if you played the old game and buy this, all of your saved information and progress will carry over, so you won’t have to worry about losing your upgraded weapons.
The best piece of DLC is Lost in Nightmares. Clocking in at about an hour, it shows that the new Resident Evil game style can lead to a thoroughly creepy game (I don’t like playing Lost in Nightmares with just the computer A.I. — I always have a friend with me. The basic setup of Lost in Nightmares is that you play as Chris ann Jill as they raid the Spencer Estate before the events of RE5 proper. There’s a powerful type of monster roaming around, and you’ll have to use both the environment and precision aiming to take them down effectively (ammo is sparse). Though there i only one type of enemy that you run into, it’s always an exciting challenge to take down.
The other major DLC, Desperate Escape, takes place during the main timeline of RE5, as Jill and Josh try to get to the helipad in time to extract Chris and Sheva. This is a non-stop gauntlet of Majini, who come at you in packs as you make your way through areas, blowing open gates and such to get through. There’s plenty of ammo and even more Majini to kill. The mode is challenging, but never guite as unique as Lost in Nightmares.
The rest of the DLC includes extra costumes and Mercenaries Reunion (you play a separate mercenaries mode in which all the characters have overpowered weapons).
For anyone who hasn’t played this game before, I highly recommend it. If you have played the game before, you’ll know what to expect, but for me, the DLC was worth it.
What RE5 should have been the first time around
First off, the gold is nice looking I guess, but I wish it was the same cover as the Japanese version and shipped as the original game in the first place.
The cover is better in full cover, and it’s kind of BS to re-release the game with the much superior DLC and then essential “Mercenaries Mode” and ask people to buy it again. As its own game the so-called “gold Box” is a nice little package with a lot of content you’d EXPECT from an RE game (some of which was absent initially and made into DLC) and a worthy purchase for RE fans.
I digress; I picked up this game for cheap when Game Crazy Liquidated (R.I.P.) and was hesitant… My initial experience with RE5 wasn’t the best. I rented it ( i say rented but what I really did was buy it used from Gamestop and then return it within 7 days cause you know, screw them) and my friend did the same.
I’m a long time RE fan with fond memories of RE1 on the PS1, he owed a N64 back then.
The game was fun for a little while with a friend, because you can coordinate attacks, etc: “you stand here I’ll shoot the barrel”. But he lost interest half way through because the story this time around isn’t as good as in the past… and left with only an AI driven Shiva, I just called it quits.
There’s no coordinating with AI Shiva, and, she’s dumb and a poor shot. At times I withheld ammo from her on purpose. To make matters worse the whole “ownership of items” issue in RE5 due to potential to play with a real person is abysmal. When my friend left he took all “his” weapons” and all I had for Shiva was sniper-rifle, which she proceeded to shoot at enemies 3 feet away?
As dumb as Shiva is, I guess as a means of realism, Chris is even DUMBER! I guess all those roids took their toll (though he was never a brain-trust) but man is it irritating to play with a comp, and playing with a random person feels weird, and doesn’t work well in terms of them “jumping in” (they have to wait for a checkpoint, or I can restart, hooray)
So as I said, I never finished the game, and then I got this one, but the save files used to be locked, so all my progress? Lost. They released a patch but my PS3 got YLOD before that so when I backed-up my hard-drive, those files were omitted, thanks Capcom!
The save file thing and the aforementioned weapon ownership silliness is representative of an irritating attitude Dev’s have about their games this gen… Why lock save files? And who cares it an advanced player can share endgame guns with someone else (which they can’t in RE5) I mean it’s our foretime we choose to spend playing your game, what is the harm, remember back when games had cheat codes? It’s supposed to be recreation not an Olympic event, jeez! This is the drawback to “trophies” but these people are taking those a little too seriously if you ask me.
Once again I digress, I got this to play the DLC, so I had to rebeat the main game, and with the right motivation it was somewhat enjoyable, especially when I got to the new stuff. But no puzzles or really anything other than shooting zombies faces off was a disappointment for the main game but it did that well I suppose, You won’t hear any complaints out of me about the controls, they work for the game, end of story, you want gears of war or uncharted? Go play them instead.
The DLC which I finally unlocked… great stuff! Puzzles, like more than one, and Jill is back (although a little fuglier than her RE3 role) and most importantly the game is fun to play on your own in the DLC where the main game is clearly only meant for two actual people, who know each other by their real names. The competitive mode is a lark for a bit. It would have been nice if they also included the 2 dollar theme off PSN as part of the Gold Box.
The Mercenaries mode is of course great just as it was in RE4. I would give the 2 DLC packs a 4-5 for game play and I consider all the other stuff (which hI reiterated was NOT IN THE ORIGINAL
The DLC is like 3 hours total if you don’t rush, but then again so was RE1 back in the day. And its not as if the Main game doesn’t have its moments. It does, it just has, other moments.
Overall, if you’re a RE fan and you don’t already own this game this is a good purchase even at $ 46. If you haven’t played the main game yet you might genuinely enjoy your first time through, and if you have a friend who is also interested, then you win! The DLC is great, both of `em, the mansion is still a great setting. Mercenaries is back in this edition, why it was absent in the original is beyond me.
If you owe RE5 still,… that sucks, but sell it I guess and get this. You could buy the stuff of the PSN but I personally hate not having the content on a disc and in this version (unlike the 360 version, FYI) this all there. Having two PS3′s ignite with the YLOD makes you appreciative of what you can physically own.
If you just want at shoot `em up which you can play with a friend there are many, many better options. But this time around this is a worthy Resident Evil for fans of the series!