The Resident Evil 4 Remake Chainsaw Demo has set my hype into hyperdrive

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If the Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw Demo is truly representative of the Remake's overall quality, then we are in for one hell of a good time on March 24. If you have 30 minutes and 10GB of hard-drive space to spare, you'll find an experience that works hard to subtly subvert expectations, and ratchet up the tension beyond anything Resident Evil 4 was capable of in 2005. I had impossibly high expectations coming in (the Resident Evil 2 Remake was astounding,) and a scratching itch of reservation (the Resident Evil 3 Remake was less so), but the Resident Evil 4 Remake playable demo is a truly wondrous thing.  

Naturally, there's a lot of video game still to come. Stalking the village at night in the rain, cycling through ammunition in a besieged cabin, frantic firefights through a labyrinthian castle, and plenty of other moments my aging mind can barely grasp at. Resident Evil 4 may be remembered fondly for that first assault in El Pueblo, but it's the chaos that ensues beyond the opening hour which made it iconic. RE4 is one of the most generous and imaginative action games ever made, and Capcom will ultimately be judged on its ability to recapture that spirit of adventure in the Remake.

Capcom has a history with using playable demos to send the public into overdrive ahead of new Resident Evil games, although they are typically timed affairs – we are allotted a small window into a created world and then the curtains are drawn before we're able to get a real sense of its scale. Wisely, Capcom has opted to let us run freely through the Resident Evil 4 Remake demo; there's even an exclusive difficulty setting which triggers at random, with Mad Chainsaw Mode stripping you of checkpoints and upping the crazed behavior of Dr.