Anyone bought it yet? If you buy it at Toys R Us, you can nab a $20 gift card upon purchase (yesterday and today only). This game has to be one of the best coop games I ever played. Unlike most other games, the game was designed to played cooperatively with another player (local and online supported) from the grounds up.

Granted, the game is very similar to Resident Evil 4 so if you didn't like that game, you won't like this one either (no you still can't move and shoot). Nevertheless, you will love this game if you enjoyed RE4, even more so when you're playing through the game the first time with a friend. You can't help, but achieve a feeling of satisfaction every time you save your friend from being blindsided by an enemy. Every thrill and victory you experience is amplified when you share it with another player. I can speak for myself last night when I use one of my last two rifle rounds (my coop partner used up all her ammo) on a boss to kill it, a very surprising turn of event when I saw a victory cutscene initiate.

Oh and fear not PC owners, the game will be coming to the PC very soon (as with most Capcom games this generation).

I played the demo and got absolutely raped.
HARD
It was fun though. I'll pick it up in 5 years when it's like 20 bucks.

Even if the co-op with a friend is fun, I don't see why they are charging $5 for regular multiplayer. Explain to me this.

This reminds me of a kid that was working on a co-op, but he always spelled it "coop" and pronounced it "coop" - as in "chicken coop". I thought it was amusing and didn't tell him any different.

Always looking for good 360 co-op games and I'm getting really sick of L4Ds lack of maps. Maybe I'll check it out.

I am broke as hell, but I might rent this to play it through co-op .. I know quite a few people that play it.
I have vacation all this week .. if I rent it anyone up for playing the whole game through (in a couple hour periods)

By focusing this game so much on co-op, they've completely crippled the game as a single-player entity. I love RE4 to death, I think it's one of the best games in the last 5 years, but I really think they took 3 steps back with RE5. (And I still think it's great fun). Sheva is mind numbingly dumb, she burns through ammo and health like it's her job, and with the limited inventory (Seriously, what was so bad with the Attaché Case?), you can't afford these losses. On top of that, the real time inventory makes switching items and trading them a near impossibility.

I love the RE series to death, it's one of the first games I really fell in love with, and I loved the steps they took with RE4... but some of the design decisions they made 2% of the game make the 98% less enjoyable, especially with that 98% is absolutely perfect.

Playing Mercenaries has made me realize how fun this game could have been. I started keeping track of my deaths in the singleplayer campaign, 75% of them were in the inventory screen (Switching Grenade types, getting ammo to / from Sheva, moving health around, accessing health items) (15% were sheva being dumb as a brick, 10% were me failing).

Once I started playing mercenaries, not having to worry about my partner, my inventory, etc, the game just became so much more fun. Just blowing the hell out of zombies, running around against time. The inventory was something to fight against to get health items ready or combining herbs... but it's just so much more fun.

Also: The story? Horrible. Completely dumbed down from even RE4 (Which was dumbed down from the first generation of RE games). The ending resembled less of a resident evil game, and more of a Dragonball Z episode.

Seriously? You throw super wesker into a volcano? He becomes super-ultra-mega Wesker and gets a giant sword arm? And you fight him in a volcano? You throw him into a volcano and he jumps out and attacks your helicopter? Pretty sure magma would melt him (A regular Flamethrower killed the second Uroboros.) I loved the fight, but it was just dumb

I love this game, every inch by ****ing inch of it. I hope they keep it up, honestly, and release a ton of extra missions and **** on xbl for it, because this game is ace. I just love sitting with a friend and playing, and realizing 5 hours later that it's no longer 7 at night and is indeed midnight. Fun ****.

I do agree the singleplayer is meh comparably, but it's not meant to be singleplayer in any way shape or form, so I take that out of the equation personally.

Ace.

Man, it's going to take a ton of playtime to get all of the bonus features... With each unlimited ammo feature ranging from like 8,000 to 20,000 pts, and then all of the 500 pt figurines, it would require a lot of mercenaries point farming. It seems just as fun and intense as mercenaries in RE4 though.

I agree with pretty much everything fishstickz has said. Also, I really miss "WHAT'RE YA BUYIN?!"

"AHHHHH... I'LL BUY IT AT A HIGH PRICE!"

It was ok..

Only have the demo, but nothing's screaming "buy it!".

I tried the PS3 demo and was pretty much completely disappointed. That probably just my hate for almost all fps on consoles, It might be a decent game on the PC.

Uh... it's not a FPS?

Makes me glad I never got into RE...

err what would you call it, 3rd person shooter? I really dont make that distinction since most games (SINCE JEDI KNIGHT!) allow you to toggle 1st person/3rd person.

This is all kinds of not true

3rd person shooters generally have different controls, like dodge buttons (similar to the later UT's... even though that's fps) and take advantage of fact that it's 3rd person in various ways.