10 EXACT Moments Video Games Lost The Plot
8. All-Out Action - Resident Evil 5
From its first entry in 1996, all the way to the release of Resident Evil 4 in 2005, Capcom's Resident Evil series was known as the world's most successful survival horror series. And whilst RE 4 marked a significant departure from the earlier titles in the series with the introduction of a dynamic camera system, it was the opening level of its successor, Resident Evil 5, that fans began to realise the series was free-falling into something completely different.
The opening level of RE 5 takes place in Kijuju, a fictional part of Africa, and the game immediately puts its new direction front and centre, with the two-player cooperative system, motion-captured cutscenes and added emphasis on action baring little resemblance to the games that came before it.
And whilst RE 4 was certainly more action-based than most other titles in the series, it still held the same strong focus on story and atmosphere over anything else, something that RE 5 can't boast about possessing.
Kijuju and most of the other locations in the game are legitimately well-designed and interesting settings - just not for a series like Resident Evil.
Ultimately, RE 5 is the point in which most fans of the series can say Capcom began to lose its way in terms of what they thought made the series so popular, with RE 6, without a doubt the lowest point in the franchise, continuing the trends set out in its predecessor, before RE 7 stripped everything back and returned the series to form.