Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City rumored
Rumors, much like the walking dead, seem very difficult to keep buried. On that note, a new Resident Evil game is in the works. What surprised us was that we now have word that the game will take place in Raccoon City. Hopefully that can only mean one thing: classic brain eating undead foes will make a return. More details on this rumor coming up shortly.
What we have heard so far: The new project will feature not one, not two, but multiple playable characters (Resident Evil: Outbreak, anyone?). None of which seem to be current characters found in the long running series. If it does take place in Raccoon City, this title will have to be a prequel…unless some entity unknown to us decided to rebuild the city, oh boy. Of course, cold hard facts about the release and any other details are subject to Capcom making a formal announcement on this, so we’ll keep our ears peeled.
Last year, Kotaku was able to secure some information regarding Slant Six Games, the developers of SOCOM, and how they were starting to staff to work on a new game, potentially a Resident Evil game for Capcom. Combined with the latest information we have, the picture is starting to become more clear on what direction Capcom is taking the new game. I have to admit, these are good signs that Capcom really does care about what the fans want. Many RE fans were just not into the mutated virus that caused enemies to act like normal humans with bad attitudes. Cross your fingers that this game isn’t just another Mercenary’s game like the 3DS is getting and load up on some ammo, because last time I checked (before the city got nuked of course), the place was loaded with a large number of zombies.
While The Kartel isn’t known as a scoop machine, we do have a knack for piecing together some insight into upcoming announcements. We 1st broke how Portal 2 would potentially feature co-op gaming between PC and PS3. We also broke how Rock Band hadn’t been profitable for many years, despite the hype surrounding sales. And of course our “yeah right, you’re full of shiit” reveal that Namco was going to work with Capcom to make a Tekken vs Street Fighter game. So I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether you buy into this latest Resident Evil news!
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Heading back to Raccoon City is the best thing Capcom could do for the series at this point.
I wonder if this is the rumored “Resident Evil Portable” that was supposed to come out for PSP? I assumed that ended up becoming REvelations and switched to 3DS, but maybe that’s not the case?
Ehhhh YEa Love me some RE. I wish they would just re-release an RE Trilogy pack with all updated graphics and better acting. *o god it was awful*
Its awesome that Resident Evil is heading back to Raccoon City, but I thought the developers of socom were taking a stab at the next RE game?
How much story is left to tell with RE, though? I am not sure this is good news. I thought the series has been sucking lately.
I would love it if they went back to Raccoon city. RE2 was my fav RE for many years.
I hope its like resident evil outbreak file 2 online wise.
This is how I feel about zombies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpUzjB3w3I
perhaps jill, the master of unlocking, can help us unlock this mystery. god, i love RE.
If this is a branch off game its more then likely going to suck.
Well no RE game can be much more bad than RE5.
I’m glad to see a new RE game in the works. I have such a thing for zombies, as I’m sure a lot of gamers do. But it’s so fun to kill them.
And, you know, I’m grateful for Resident Evil 4 for changing their bland “stop-turn-stop-run” formula that the original games had. I hated moving or doing anything in that game, and that all really detracted from the first three games.
Put the pieces together.
Franchise is suppose to “reboot” which while the previous director stated that, I assume parts of the old team will pursue the “new director” to move forward with a “reboot”.
What is the best way to “reboot”?
Head back to Racoon City.
Now the problem here comes down to that people are going to lose interest if they go back to Racoon City unless they start advancing the story.
How can they go back to Racoon City and explain a proper story?
Answer should be that they need to cover and finish the stories of the 3 characters who vanished from the game after Resident Evil 1 being Rebecca Chambers, Barry Burton, and Billy Coen. It worked with Resident Evil 3, it should work with this game as well.
Other than that, I can’t see how they’d possibly be able to return to Racoon City and make the story decent for any of interest to actually be interested in the game.
Meanwhile, they are going to have to do something about the enemies in this game because without a Wesker, it doesn’t seem like Umbrella or anyone in that matter is much of a company at all. It’s getting to the point where it’s becoming a common trend that they focus to much time on mass quantities of good guys rather than the actual enemies who seem to always lose yet they are more powerful than them.
Can we please have some twists for once?
Believers, rejoice! This rumor is a reality!
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6305877.html
Actually it was announced it’s a team-thing.