This time it's not zombies that go eating your brains...

In RE4, Leon S. Kennedy returns as a secret service guy sent to a rural town in Spain to search for the United States' President's kidnapped daughter. But as I said, it's not zombies you'll be facing but crazed villagers armed with axes, chainsaws, and capable of speaking... Whatever language they speak, not sure if that's Spanish or some kinda H.P. Lovecraft mumblings. As Leon explores the areas and survives the hostile hordes, he learns the kidnapper crazy cult guys are actually infected with a parasite called Las Plagas that (from what I understand) is like those worm things in Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn that make their victims slaves to their masters only instead of killing off the victims, the victims of Las Plagas begin to mutate and get more powerful. Some of which even retain their intelligence and their personalities. It's up to Leon to stop these guys from conquering the world as well as finding a cure for the parasites inside the president's daughter and himself... Not necessarily in that order.

"Come to Spain, they said... It'll be fun, they said... You won't get parasites, they said... The girl won't whine your ear off, they said..."
-Leon S. Kennedy

This is when the Resident Evil series took a turn away from it's explorative adventure gameplay and more like a straight forward action game like Doom or BioShock with go here, kill stuff, repeat. This is also where the developers decided to go a different route than dealing with zombies and RE4 definitely has more of an H.P. Lovecraft kinda monster thing going on but without, you know, the whole interdimensional alien god things. But this game really went all out and it was originally a GameCube exlusive, not PS2 or Xbox but Nintendo GameCube! Yeah, because secret agents, chainsaw psychos, and sadistic monsters are perfect to share shelving space with your favorite games for the family's GameCube like Mario and Super Monkey Ball.

"Lemme guess: ... You guys aren't fond of Americans around here?"
-Leon S. Kennedy

This game in the series has a perfect blend of over the top cinematics, action adventure gameplay with better aiming system than the previous RE games, and 10 years later the story and level settings progress better than RE5 or RE6 which are more in linear design and jump around so often you could go around the work in 80 minutes. But this game, regardless you got the PC version, GameCube, PS2, Wii, downloaded it... This is classic action game gold which deserves being checked out. RE4 gets 5 out of 5 mutant parasitic Spanish ninjas... Na, it doesn't have those... Thank God for that or else I wouldn't take it seriously at all.