Resident Evil 5 will be under 10 hours long?

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A rumor is currently floating around the 'net that Resident Evil 5 will be a short game. Despite the producer announcing that gamers will get 20+ hours out of RE5, gaming magazine Xbox World 360 disputes this, claiming that they have only gotten 8 hours out of the game. 80 minues of which is cutscenes!

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I guess we won't know who's telling the truth until the game is actually released. Here's hoping its a lot longer than 8 hours though!

How long was RE4? As long as it's as long as RE4, it'll be perfect. Wouldn't want the game to drag on too long.

My first playthrough of RE4 took 20 hours. That was without any help so I got stuck a lot.


This is the typical length of "next-gen" gaming so I guess I can't complain. Although I feel sick knowing I just spent $300 on a gaming system to play a single game that's going to take me 10 hours to finish. It better have all kinds of FREE DLC and replay value.

I knew I should have just saved my money for The Conduit.

RE4 was about 15 hours on my first playthrough ... maybe a bit more. Personally I'd like RE5 to be a little longer. RE4 felt too short, to me. (though that might have been because it was broken up into different chapters, each of which were only a few hours long).

But if RE5 ends up being as plot-heavy as the trailers make it seem, then I definitely want it to be longer than RE4.

10 hours for a recreational gamer is lame indeed, even if the game turns out to be the best thing ever burned to disc.

because there's no way someone getting paid to work on a product would lie about it's length. Oh no

I really hope the 7 hrs playthrough was because the testers were told exactly what to do, to complete the objectives and stuff, and they just went through speedily checking for basic glitches, without doing any exploration or experimentation. Because thats just too less.

Even if it is under 10 hours that shouldn't be too bad, I'm more looking forward to the story. With these types of games though it typically takes me a lot longer than it should due to not knowing everything I should be doing from the start. Once you play through it one time and you've gotten used to everything, the second time flies by a lot faster and then the length magazines are saying would be a lot more reasonable. It doesn't hurt to have a short game though, I mean in this day of age I can beat Resident Evil 2 in just three hours but I love that game. If the replay value is good though, the game will last way longer than a mere 10 hours.