The placement of your cursor can cause the highlighted option to skip around, resulting in more scrolling than should be necessary.

For instance, you can click on any setting that's visible, but only so many options are displayed on the screen at a time, so you have to scroll laboriously from option to option to find the settings you want. The only downside, as with the remakes of RE2 and RE3, is that these menus feel rooted in console UI design. (The other being controls, a topic we'll dig into later.) Compared to the console versions, especially last-gen systems, there's no shortage of granular adjustments you can make and appreciate. The robustness of these menus is one of two main advantages of playing on PC. Performance meters on the right-hand side of the screen are adjusted in real time to show you how your choices will affect performance, and the accompanying screenshot above the meters reflects how the visuals will change in-game.

Settings from frame rate and display mode, to SSAO and ray tracing, to support for HDR and the new hairstrand system can be adjusted over multiple levels. As with Capcom's remakes of RE2 and RE3, Resident Evil 4's Display and Graphics menus boast options that allow you to customize the experience to your PC's specifications. The game played very well on both PCs, though I was able to push the RE Engine further at the Shacknews office. * 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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