New Resident Evil Makes You One of the Bad Guys

A new team-based Resident Evil game fromSOCOM: Confrontationdeveloper Slant Six wasrumoredlast year, and we now appear to have the first real details about the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title.

EntitledResident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, the game puts players in the shoes of an Umbrella Security Services member tasked with killing both zombies and"pretty much every survivor possible,"according to the May issue ofOfficial Xbox Magazine(as reported byStickSkills). The game will take place in 1998, during the initial outbreak seen inResident Evil 2and3. That means you'll be seeing key characters like Leon Kennedy at various points throughout;"Kill Leon"was a recurring theme during OXM's demo, though another of the game's factions, US Spec Ops, could be asked to save him. In other words, Operation Raccoon City will allow you to"change the history of Resident Evil."

It will have a much darker tone than previous games (as if the zombies and devastation weren't dark already) and will feature four characters in the USS squad, which was inspired by Hunk from RE2. Combat won't simply consist of headshot after headshot -- you can do things to mix it up like luring zombies into attacking other enemy soldiers. You'll also earn experience points that can be cashed in for new abilities and weapons.

Although it's not mentioned in the details that have been released, the game seems to lend itself to multiplayer, which fits in with the original rumors that Slant Six was working on a multiplayer Resident Evil game. Between Operation Raccoon City being scheduled for this winter,RE6on thefast track,The Mercenaries 3Dcoming to 3DS, and theHD re-releasesofCode: Veronica XandRE4set for this fall, it looks like there won't be any shortage of content from the series, which is precisely what Capcomwants.

Source:VG247

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