Resident Evil 5

So I bought Resident Evil 5 for the XBOX 360 the other day and thought it'd be fun to kill some zombies. It would have been except that whoever designed the controls for this game was clearly insane. The XBOX 360 controller has two triggers, two buttons above the triggers (bumpers), four buttons under your right thumb, a D-pad (with eight possible buttons), two thumbsticks (each of which can be pushed for another button) and a "back" button. With all of these possibilities, someone decided that to shoot your gun or swing your knife, you should have to push two buttons at the same time. There are four possible control layouts for the game but all four of them require you to push two buttons to attack. This in a game where the primary activity is attacking zombies. With just about every other game, when you pull the right trigger, you attack. Not the right trigger plus another button. In Resident Evil 5, if you pull the right trigger, you whip your head around and stare at your partner (who is pretty hot, to be fair). I played right up until the first combat which I spent plaintively glancing at my partner (for help, I guess) as I frantically pulled the right trigger while trying to remember what other button I needed to also push to attack. After dying, I decided to go back to Rock Band 2.

Note: I'll add pictures and links later.

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