Resident Evil Showcase: Everything you need to remember from Capcom direct!

Event news Resident Evil Showcase: Everything you need to remember from Capcom direct!

60 minute demo for Resident Evil Village

That was to be expected. Resident Evil Village has occupied a full half of the Resident Evil Showcase. After a generous trailer that introduces various environments and characters, the presentation focused on the next demo, or the next demos to be precise. Capcom is offering starting May 2, 2021 at 2:00 a.m. to explore the areas of the Village, then the Castle at your leisure for a total of 60 minutes of gameplay maximum which should delight fans. PlayStation players will even have the chance to discover the said demo, for the first time on April 18, only for the Village part (30min max), then in a second time on April 25 for Lady Dimitrescu’s Castle (30min max ). And if you’re wondering who Mother Miranda is, you’ll have to wait until May 7, 2021 to learn more about this just-mentioned, yet highly intriguing character.

The mode “The Mercenaries”

A big surprise awaits fans of the Resident Evil franchise, and it’s Morimasa Sato (director for Capcom) who tells us about it. The Mercenaries mode, a classic of the saga, first introduced in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, is back in Resident Evil Village. On the program, an Arcade-oriented experience where players seek to survive, and to complete certain objectives in the allotted time. Strictly speaking, it is a time trial which gives pride of place to the action in all that it can have of more brutal and visceral, and abandons the time of an extra fashion the dimension of survival. Capcom even allows itself some adjustments with the addition of the merchant between two zones which allows Ethan Winters to modify his equipment, improve his weapons, and even obtain new skills, just to be always more formidable in combat. .

25 ans de Resident Evil

The information will not have escaped anyone’s notice as Capcom focuses its communication on it. The Resident Evil franchise is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, March 22, 2021 to be precise. On this occasion, the Japanese publisher offers a whole series of collaborations and projects in order to celebrate this quarter of a century as it should. Several personalities have followed one another during the Resident Evil Showcase, whether it is the architect of the PlayStation 5 Mark Cerny or the former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Shuhei Yoshida. What does Capcom have in store for us in April? In January we had the right to a crossover with Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, it is now Dead by Daylight which hoists the colors of Umbrella. On May 25, Behavior Interactive should detail this partnership during a live anniversary of the 5 years of DbD … with in its sights a brand new chapter stamped Resident Evil.

Resident Evil 4 en VR

Survival-Horror, and more particularly in first person, is one of the genres that lends itself best to the exercise of virtual reality. Resident Evil VII: Biohazard was Capcom’s first attempt in this area, and the result lived up to the hopes placed in VR at the time. The immersive power of horror combined with that of the PlayStation headset shed new light on the saga. Capcom is aware of this, and this is why the Japanese publisher is partnering with Oculus Studios and Armature Studios to transform a cult work that changed in its time the vision of Survival-Horror and even TPS. The aforementioned studios are currently wearing Resident Evil 4 on the Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset which implies a first person point of view, and therefore an ever more immersive experience. More information is expected to be shared on this project during the Oculus Gaming Showcase on April 21, 2021.

Resident Evil sur Netflix

The Resident Evil saga isn’t just about video games. No less than ten films have seen the light of day over the past twenty years, and Capcom intends to exploit its zombies on the big screen, but also on those of more modest size. Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, just mentioned last January, was entitled to its trailer. This animated series produced in computer graphics will be released in July 2021 on Netflix. It involves Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield during the invasion of the White House by bilogical weapons, and takes place two years after the events of Resident Evil 4. As for the film reboot directed by Johannes Roberts and subtitled Welcome to Raccoon City, nothing was revealed during this Resident Evil Showcase. We should know more by the summer period. This film is supposed to be released in theaters in September 2021.

The Resident Evil Showcase was full of announcements, especially regarding Resident Evil Village, although the 25th anniversary of the franchise was an opportunity to discover some unexpected projects. Some players who were hoping for the remakes of Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil : Code Veronica will have to take their troubles patiently.

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