6. Resident Evil 5 March 13th 2009 (PAL)
Alright, the zombies are Black, but this isnt the reason that it was disappointing, so lets take no notice of the cries from idiots because like a child walking into traffic, attention is all they want. Resident Evil 5 well and truly mishandled the chance to exploit the success of Resident Evil 4, the game which put Capcom back on the map. Sure Resident Evil 5 had the same control set up and quick-time events, but it lacked imagination as a lot of the set pieces where similar to RE4. Like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, it has that DLC feel because the campaign is excruciatingly anorexic in length. Adding to that, it is buggy as all hell. I played it both on my PS3 and on a friends 360 and while the PS3 seemed better with rendering problems, both games kept freezing or locked my gun out so I couldnt change weapon and things of that horrid nature. Having a sidekick really put my knickers in a twist because you have to keep an eye on her and its just another bloody mouth to feed. Tell me why shed spend hours pistol popping a horde of zombies when carrying a massive shotgun? Tell me why after getting completely overrun by said horde would I have to break away from what Im doing and save her (admittedly) nice arse. And why, oh bloody hell why, does she use all the healing items if she so much as scrapes her knee? There I was hanging on by a damn thread, but not having any healing items in my utterly ridiculous nine-box inventory screen I had to crawl over to her and request a spray. However, she had other plans because her tummy was feeling a little dickey and used five bloody sprays and left me for dead. My hunch is, Capcom didnt think that RE4 was going to explode like it did and when it was time to make RE5 the idea bucket was totally empty, but this doesnt excuse the level of poor design on their part. Still, its not as bad as Resident Evil 6, but if you thought RE6 was going to be a decent game you probably thought using a brick would make an excellent substitute for a sandwich.