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Game data
Metacritic 86- Released
- 2009-03-05
- User rating
- 3.82 / 5
- Genres
- Shooter, Action
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- ESRB
- Mature
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Game details · IGDB
Resident Evil 5 is the seventh video game in the Resident Evil series. It features similar gameplay to Resident Evil 4 utilizing the same over the shoulder view, but this time the environment plays a significant role. The player is now dependent on his partner more than in older games. When the partner's health bar drop down to 0, he will enter the dying stage where the health bar will flash red and gradually lower as he stays like this. Resident Evil 5 also features new types of enemies called Majini and mostly are of African descent.
- Released
- 2009
- Genres
- Shooter, Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
- Engine
- MT Framework
- Franchise
- Resident Evil
- Developer
- Capcom
- Publisher
- Capcom
Key facts
- Developer
- Capcom
- Publisher
- Capcom
- Directors
- Yasuhiro Anpo Kenichi Ueda
- Producers
- Jun Takeuchi Masachika Kawata
- Designer
- Jiro Taoka
- Programmer
- Soji Seta
- Writers
- Haruo Murata Yoshiaki Hirabayashi Kenichi Ueda
- Composers
- Kota Suzuki Hideki Okugawa Akihiko Narita Seiko Kobuchi
- Series
- Resident Evil
- Engine
- MT Framework
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Windows Shield Android TV PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch
- Genre
- Third-person shooter
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.residentevil.com/5
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- publication date
- 2009-03-05
- units sold
- 3800000
- review score
- 85/100
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Resident Evil 5 is a 2009 third-person shooter game developed and published by Capcom. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles in March 2009 and for Windows in September 2009. It was rereleased for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2016.
The plot involves an investigation of a terrorist threat by Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar in Kijuju, a fictional region of West Africa. Chris learns that he must confront his past in the form of an old enemy, Albert Wesker, and his former partner, Jill Valentine.