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Resident Evil 4

Trivia

At the event "GameStar/GamePro Leserpreis 2006" (23. February 2006) Resident Evil 4 received the trophies "Best Console Game in 2005" and "Best Console Action-Adventure in 2005" after the reader's voting of German gaming magazine GamePro.

Krauser and HUNK's music that plays in The Mercenaries game mode is actually from P.N.03: the music from the 4th and 8th mission, respectively.

Game Informer Magazine (Issue #153, Jan. 2006) named it Game of the Year (2005).

For the Windows version, when you are presented with the game's main menu you will see that the background is slowly crawling. Press left or right on the analog stick controlling the camera and the background will scroll faster in a panorama like fashion, left or right depending on the direction of the stick.

The "Red 9" 9mm pistol is a "Mauser C-96" from the World War I era. The Red 9 version actually had the number 9 carved on the grip, painted in red. It was heavy and slow to reload, but offered good power and range at the time.

In the typical fashion of depicting Spanish inhabitants, the voiceovers were made my Mexican (some of them trying to do Spanish from Spain) rather than by real Spanish actors.

On June 30, 2005, the English version of Resident Evil 4 was put on the infamous German index by the BPjM. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.

Ranked #1 by IGN Reader Reviews in recent IGN reader review rankings.

The Killer 7 handgun was named after the title of a Shinji Mikami-produced game.

Tests of an early version proved unfavorable. What was made however was turned into another video game from Capcom, Devil May Cry.

The earliest version of the game was announced for the PS2 under Resident Evil 2, director Hideki Kamiya. This build was eventually cancelled as a Resident Evil installment and became the title known as "Devil May Cry". Eventually, development was moved to the Gamecube console and another build emerged. This was the first version to feature Leon from RE2. The game's main menace was to sport a hook on one of its hands, and the logo for the game reflected this (this can still be seen in the final logo). More versions were created and cancelled before Shinji Mikami took over and transformed the title into what it is today. Of all the builds developed, only one of them was never unveiled to the public (it was the one that was being worked on right before Mikami took over).

All the weapons used by Leon in the game are based on real weapons. The standard handgun looks similar to a Beretta 92 (with nickel plating, which the original gun wouldn't have); the Punisher handgun looks somewhat like the H&K VP70; the shotgun is a Remington M870; the Striker is an actual shotgun developed in South Africa; the rocket launcher is a Russian RPG-7 (which can actually be reloaded and fired again), and so on.

There is a laser room (hallway actually) much alike the one in the original Resident Evil movie, where Leon has to dodge laser beams and pull various stunts, with exception that he survives the lasers unlike the S.T.A.R.S. team in the movie.

Contributed by MAT (35361) on Feb 14, 2005.

Early in the development stages the game's setting was Japan, not Europe.

Only one difference has been pointed out between the American and Japanese versions of the game. It occurs whenever Leon is killed by any of the Chainsaw-wielding villagers. In the US version, if Leon is attacked by one of them, his head is chopped off (graphically) by the villager. However, in the Japanese version, when a villager attacks Leon with the chainsaw, it cuts off part of Leon's face, exposing half of the front of Leon's skull. It graphically shows Leon's right eye still intact as well, surrounded by blood. While this is more detailed and gory than the US version, the US version is more realistic in terms of anatomical "surgery".

Nuby Tech designed a unique controller for the game in the form of a yellow chainsaw with gory blood marks. It comes with a built-in sound chip, imitating the roar.

Contributed by Sciere (119452) on Jan 29, 2005.