Resident Evil 4 Remake Had Its Four DRMs Successfully Cracked

The PC version of the Resident Evil 4 remake has been cracked roughly a month and a half after its debut. According to the report, the game featured four layers of protection: CAPCOM Anti-Tamper, VMProtect, Denuvo SecureDLCv2, and Denuvo v18.

It'll be interesting to see whether CAPCOM removes them now that a pirated version of the game is circulating. The Japanese publisher has often removed Denuvo from its games, like Devil May Cry V and Resident Evil Village, at a certain point after launch. The main goal of these DRMs is to protect the initial sales anyway.

On that count, the Resident Evil 4 remake has already delivered for CAPCOM. It sold three million units in its first two days and later broke the four million sales milestone in early April. At this rate, it has a solid shot at outselling Resident Evil Village, which sold 7.4 million copies to date.

The successful release of the Resident Evil 4 remake propelled CAPCOM to record-high stock in early April. The stock price record improved again this month when the publisher announced its library's latest sales update.

Resident Evil 4 also garnered the approval of original creator Shinji Mikami, not to mention high review scores from critics. In Wccftech's review (scored 8.5 out of 10), Nathan Birch wrote:

While the tone of the last few paragraphs has been a bit negative, whether we’re talking about the original or the remake, Resident Evil 4 is still a very good game. I may be a bit disappointed by the scope and ambition of Capcom’s reimagining, but RE4 is still one of the most inventive and engaging action-horror games ever made, and this is a competent, technically-impressive new version of the game. The village battle may be largely the same, but it still gets your blood pumping. Same goes for the cabin defense sequence, your showdown with the village chief, or your first encounter with a Regenerator. The RE4 remake is still a fun, bombastic dose of mayhem, I just feel like it had the potential to be even better. It also suffers from the fact that Resident Evil Village was, in some ways, the bigger, crazier take on RE4 that this remake could have been.

That said, there’s still no other game in the series that matches Resident Evil 4 in terms of scope. The game’s campaign will still last you at least 15 hours and potentially more if you want to ferret out every secret and complete the newly added collection of sidequests. Of course, as usual, there’s a New Game+, multiple difficulties, and other unlockable extras to pursue after the credits roll. This is a nostalgia trip RE fans won’t be returning from any time too soon.

Written by Alessio Palumbo