* All videos for this article were captured on the PC at the Shacknews office. Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor at 3.6GHz.

I played Capcom's Resident Evil 4 remake on two PCs: one at home, and another at the Shacknews office. Kennedy pauses to take in the view on what is sure to be a peaceful lakeside retreat. Resident Evil 4 is another impressive showing for the RE Engine, though not without a few very minor caveats to keep in mind as you play. Capcom's remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 included a treasure trove of bells and whistles in their respective PC ports. Our objective in playing through the game on two platforms was not to write separate reviews, but to take a closer look at how one of 2023's early Game of the Year contenders performs on the PC. While TJ played through Resident Evil 4 on PS5, I started on the same platform and then jumped into the Steam version supplied by Capcom for review. Despite the long shadow cast by its predecessor, the remake 'improves upon a masterpiece in ways that will make it hard to go back to the original,' TJ concluded. 'Capcom had a mountain of a task remaking Resident Evil 4,' he wrote, acknowledging the 2005 original as a landmark title that set the mold for third-person action games going forward. Shacknews senior news editor TJ Denzer awarded it a 10 out of 10, the first such score in our history. Three months into the year, Capcom's Resident Evil 4 remake has cemented its reputation as one of the best games of 2023.

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