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I have heard many great things about the forthcoming Resident Evil 5 but the one that i remember most is what producer Jun Takeuchi said regarding the possibility of a Wii version, that the Wii system can't even handle the openning screen of the game. The past RE games had pretty standard title screen made memorable by the somewhat chilling and rather cheesy voice introduction every time you start or load the game.

This has gotten be something else if it can't even run on the Wii system, i was expecting a rolling demo in the background and all sorts of crazy new innovations on the title screen to showcase the next step in the evolution of the series. When i finally got the demo of the game running on my PS3, all that was presented to me on the title screen is the standard RE5 title screen that you kinda got used to if you watch a lot of the trailers for the game released. There are some subtle blood veins pumping to the center of the 5 logo on the screen but overall the complexity of this title screen that could not run on the Wii system is lost on me. Perhaps i need some game programming knowledge to really appreciate the work that went into the title screen but i would have been just as happy with the old standard RE title screen. Instead Takeuchi got me all excited over nothing while taking a swipe at my current favourite system . This coupled with what Takeuchi said in an earlier EGM interview about having to design on the guns in RE2 and that he felt RE2 had the best balance of firearms just made him drop a few rungs on my list.