E3 2010 is on the way and we’ll be seeing lots of media regarding many new games on the way… which means it’s a good time to take a little look into the past at a game that very few people played but is very much appreciated by most of those who did.

“Look. I’m a cleaner. I can feel no remorse from seeing a dead body. To me, it’s merely cold, rotting flesh.”
— Garcian Smith

I have previously mentioned killer7 in my entry for No More Heroes so it seemed only natural to talk more about the game since NMH has gained Suda51 a lot more fans than he used to have. Of course, as I said in that previous entry, killer7 is a different kind of game than killer7 and although it contains Suda51′s unique styles, it is in many ways alien to No More Heroes…

“Shit! There’s more than 14. Those bastards are breeding…”
— Dan Smith

One of the great things about online gaming is the ability to play with your friends from down the street or on the other side of the town or in the same state. Even better is the ability to meet and play with people you have never physically met before in your entire life. It’s the reason why online networks such as Steam, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network are so great.

The thing that sucks about online gaming is when the companies involved in the production of the game see the need to lock people into separate regions with online play. For some games this isn’t such a big deal, it’s just extremely inconvenient… however there is one game (take a look at the pic and take a guess) where this region locking has pretty much killed the games main selling point.

I’m about to have a huge epic co-op game of Resident Evil 5 with Jeff in about an hour so I thought this would be a good time to talk about my favourite Resident Evil game and how, even in its ported form on Wii, it still manages to impress after all these years.

Originally released on the GameCube in 2005 and ported to the PS2, PC, as well as to mobile phones (lol) and Wii. This game has been around, though for good reason. It’s a great game and Capcom obviously wants to milk as much from it as they can. Even with all of these different versions floating around, the undisputed definitive version is the Wii edition.

For the second Game Spotlight, I thought I’d try something different. Instead of putting the spotlight on a game that’s already been around for awhile, why not preview a game that hasn’t even been released yet? The game I’ve chosen is the Resident Evil 5 demo which was just released on Xbox Live a few days ago.

As has been much publicised, Resident Evil 5 is heavily focused on co-operative gameplay, so I thought, “Why not have a co-op article to go with it.” When the full version of RE5 is finally released on March 13, Jeff (aka Moelman) and I are going to be playing it together in online co-op mode all the way through to the very end.

But for now, Jeff and I are going to share our thoughts about our experience with the Resident Evil 5 demo…

Some games get all the attention while others are simply swept under the rug and forgotten. Most of the games swept under the rug really do belong there, but there are some that deserve to be among the others in the spotlight. I’d like to take some time to educate people about one these games because it truly deserves to be bought and enjoyed.

Many people who have played this game will tell you that if you own a Wii, you MUST own this game. I happen to be one of them, and also one of the few who actually seemed to have bought this game in the first place. What Capcom has achieved with Zack & Wiki is a well balanced point and click adventure by combining great gameplay, great visuals and a tonne of style and fun.