Resident Evil 4 for Beginners teaches you how to kill zombies on iPhone
A new, episodic way to buy Leon's life
I'd have called it Resident Evil 4 Beginners, me.
What Capcom has done here is chop up Resident Evil 4's body, and offer it in smaller, bite sized chunks that it hopes will be easier to digest.
Resident Evil 4 for Beginners asks you to buy the first two chapters for 59p/99c, which also includes a new tutorial, Mercenary Mode, and Coin Shoot game. Then, if you like stalking through the backwaters of plague-ridden Eastern Europe, you can buy the subsequent chapters as five separate in-app purchases.
The original full version is still available as a separate product at £3.99, so depending on how much Cappy is asking for each chapter, this could actually work out a little cheaper.
If each chapter is 59p and there are six altogether (including the original 59p purchase for the first two chapters) that only runs up £3.54 - and if it turns out you get bored half way through you've made an even bigger saving.
It seems a tad redundant on the surface, but Resident Evil 4 for Beginners will definitely be an interesting experiment in rejuvenating an App Store game. Let's see how it performs.
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