Resident Evil 5: Survival horror sellout.

Resident Evil 5: Survival horror sellout.

Now before everyone reads the title and gets all huffy and puffy, I never said Resident Evil 5 was a bad game. It just isn't much of a survival horror game, trading in its slow monotonous puzzles, long treacherous story lines, and terrifying zombies for car chases, large upgradeable weapons, and gun wielding infected. Personally, I just think the Resident Evil apple has fallen far from the survival horror tree. (Take a moment, try and picture a Survival Horror tree!) Resident Evil, dare I say it, used to be my favorite series of all time; now I feel it's trying to cater to the masses with fast, action packed levels, wild gun play and large explosions.

When I first placed my RE5 (Resident Evil 5) in my Xbox 360, I was astounded by the graphics, which had given me high hopes, but now that I am only minutes away from the ending, I still have yet to see a zombie. If you would have told me five years ago that the fifth RE wasn't going to have zombies in it, I would have laughed my ass off. Yet the atrocious reality of it has finally hit me. There. Are. No. Zombies. Yeah, I said it, Resident Evil has no zombies. And I'll leave you with this: Can Resident Evil truly be a Resident Evil without zombies?