Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil 4 is a 2005  survival horror   third-person shooter  game developed by  Capcom Production Studio 4 and published by  Capcom . It was originally released for the  GameCube  on January 11, 2005. Players control U.S. government special agent  Leon S. Kennedy , who is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. president's daughter  Ashley Graham , who has been kidnapped by a cult. In rural Spain, Leon fights hordes of villagers, mutants, soldiers and cultists infected by a mind-controlling parasite and reunites with the spy  Ada Wong . Development began for  PlayStation 2  in 1999. Four proposed versions were discarded; the first attempt was directed by  Hideki Kamiya . In a departure from the fixed camera angles and slower  survival horror  gameplay of previous  Resident Evil  games, the team focused on developing more dynamic shooting action. Resident Evil 4  was announced as a GameCube exclusive as part of the  Capcom Five , but was ported to numerous formats; it became a  cross-platform  hit, selling more than 11 million copies across several platforms. It garnered universal acclaim for its story, gameplay, graphics, voice acting, and characters, and is often named one of the  best video games ever made , winning multiple  Game of the Year  awards in 2005. It influenced the evolution of the survival horror and third-person hybrid genre with popularizing the "over-the-shoulder"  third-person view  such as  Dead Space  and  The Last of Us . A sequel,  Resident Evil 5 , was released in 2009. A  remake of  Resident Evil 4  is set for release in 2023 for  PlayStation 4 ,  PlayStation 5 ,  Xbox Series X/S , and Windows.