Resident Evil 5 Critical Response

Critical response

Resident Evil 5 received positive reviews. Although the game was praised for its graphics and gameplay, it was criticized for issues with its controls. Corey Cohen of Official Xbox Magazine complimented the game's fast pace, and called the graphics "gorgeous".^[60] It was praised by Joe Juba and Mark Miller of Game Informer, who said that it had the best graphics of any game to date and the music and voice acting helped bring the characters to life. However, Juba said that the inability to move and shoot at the same time seemed more "like a cheap and artificial way to increase difficulty than a technique to enhance tension."^[58] Chris Hudak of Game Revolution reviewed Resident Evil 5 favorably. Lamenting the game's departure from the survival horror genre, Hudak concluded that "the gorgeous environs, character models and overall visuals, and the adrenaline-soaked cooperative gameplay (wonky, stodgy Capcom controls and all) cannot be denied."^[59]