The Best Nintendo Game Every Year 1983 - 2024

At this point, Resident Evil 4 has been ported to so many systems that someone should check to see if it hasn’t gained sentience and is intent on spreading itself into the homes of as many people as possible as some kind of unexpected hostile takeover.

And whilst the PS2 version may be what brought the game its first big wave of sales, RE4 was originally part of the aforementioned Capcom Five and exclusively made the GameCube it’s home for ten months.

Resident Evil 4 is one of those games that has been written about so much that there might be nothing new left to say. And, for good reason. Heralded not just as one of the best games ever made, but as a title that revolutionised the third-person action game, RE4 still holds up twenty years and a remake later. 

Resident Evil 4 keeps players in its grasp with utterly addictive combat punctuated with fresh ideas and set pieces. There’s protecting the President’s Daughter, a battle on a moving boat, quick-time events, shooting galleries, the terror of the rattling Regenerator enemies and some frankly insane boss fights...

Games on Nintendo systems are often in the conversation for game of the year, but rarely is there a more universally agreed title than 2005’s Resident Evil 4. Even if most of those votes probably came from PS2 players…