It.....is............EVIILLLLLLLLL!

The playstation 3 demo of Resident Evil 5 hits the interweb today bringing the promise that I will enjoy slowly shooting zombies in the groin on next gen systems. I checked out the demo on the 360 last week, and like RE4 I fell back into my love affair of blowing up large groups of people with a mine grenade.

First thing you will notice once you boot up the demo is that the graphics are stunning. I played RE4 on the Gamecube and was blown away by that game's presentation, but RE5 trumps it by putting a HD gloss on my lumbering football player character Chris Redfield.

The demo offers 2 boards shantytown and even worse shantytown. The first stage is your typical survive until the chopper gets here level, only problem is that I have a fair amount of zombies chasing me and a dude with a big axe.

Now the first thing I noticed is that these zombies are durable. How many headshots can a zombie take? Lots apparently. You might be better afforded at times to save your ammo by shooting the zombies in the kneecaps running up to them and stomping in the groin. (Ok, you may not stomp them in groin but I like to imagine that and believe that there eyeballs are popping out).

Now the big gameplay difference in this installment is in the co-op play. Now if you remember RE4, the levels, in which, you had to team up with Ashley (the president's daughter) where not that much fun. Basically you told her to hide in barrel while you mow down a battalion of infested Spaniards.

RE5 gives you a partner who will actually shoot things and heal you. Now if she could only prioritize what she shoots, let say, shoot the guy with the chainsaw instead of the unarmed guy. She also follows your commands by pushing the "B" button on the 360. Which you will be pressing in fast succession just for the giggles you get from the dialogue.

I died a couple times in the second board because of the aforementioned chainsaw man. This lovable fiend will kill you in this matter:

Lovely

The controls are built bulky if your not used to the Resident evil scheme, but within 10 minutes you should get the drift. Check it out if you have the means and the desire to bring cultural revitalization to third world countries.