5 essential mods for Resident Evil 4 to enhance your experience before the remake

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The release of the Resident Evil 4 Remake is almost upon us. What better way to relive the experience than to take a trip down memory lane by playing the original classic? While the original Resident Evil 4 still holds up rather well to this day, there exist a wide variety of community-made mods that players can download, free of charge, to augment their experience further.

This article will detail five such must-have mods to enrich the vanilla experience.

Note: This article is subjective and reflects the views of the author.

While the vanilla Resident Evil 4 experience is still competent to this day, there are plenty of modifications for players to visually upgrade the game to somewhat modern standards and introduce new gameplay elements, such as difficulty tiers, to make for a fresh playthrough of the title. Five of the essential mods are listed below.

While Resident Evil 4 was a fantastic-looking game upon its initial release, it has unfortunately started to show its age now, with muddy textures and outdated lighting techniques that do not hold up well today.

Fortunately, modders have introduced several ReShade presets for the game that increases the title's overall visual fidelity by introducing better colors, improved contrast, and sharpening. These visual upgrades are purely cosmetic and do not affect the game balance in any way. Recommended mods include the UHD Enhancements and RE4 Ultimate HD Plus ReShade.

One of the more transformative mods in this list, Modded Save Game, includes a modified save file that places previously unexpected characters into different story missions. Characters primarily from the Mercenaries game mode are placed into story mode missions where they replace the original cast, allowing for a