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Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape

After Jill Valentine is rescued by Chris Redfield, he leaves her to finish his mission. Find out how she made it out on her own, and what role Josh Stone played in her escape.

70 3 March 2010

Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 3 March 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape is

Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2010. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on MT Framework.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Resident Evil 5 is a 2009 third-person shooter game developed and published by Capcom. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles in March 2009 and for Windows in September 2009. It was rereleased for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2016.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Resident Evil series

Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape is the 64th of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Biohazard Survival Door in 2010. Its critic score of 70 is 4 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.

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How it was received

Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape launched on 3 March 2010, within three weeks of God of War III, Metro 2033, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Heavy Rain. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War III, Metro 2033, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Heavy Rain.

Cheats and codes

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When did Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape come out?
Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape was released on 3 March 2010 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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