Zombies burst onto the Nintendo Wii console with the release of Biohazard IV (known as Resident Evil IV outside Japan and Greater China), a horror-themed third-person shooter game from Osaka-based developer and publisher Capcom.
The game, with its gruesome cast of animated corpses, made its debut on the Nintendo GameCube
in January 2005. It proved such a huge success that Capcom ported the game onto Sony's PlayStation 2 system in October the same year.
Tokyo-based Sourcenext then developed a personal-computer port of the survival game, which was published by Typhoon Games in Hong Kong in February. In the Wii edition, the whole Biohazard gang returns. Leon Scott Kennedy, a rookie police officer at the start of the series, is the main protagonist in this fourth instalment. He plays an American secret agent on a mission to save Ashley Graham, the young and beautiful kidnapped daughter of the US president.
Another computer-generated beauty is formidable spy Ada Wong (left), who again dons her red cheongsam and black high heels. Fortunately, her stunning attire doesn't hinder her ability to kick the behinds of zombies.
Fans of the game's predecessors may be wondering what improvements or extra features are offered in the new version to warrant buying it all over again. The answer is: absolutely none. And the game's graphics look dated - especially if you've spent a year playing high-definition games.