Capcom Execs Reveal Resident Evil 6 Details

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Capcom Execs Reveal Resident Evil 6 Details

Resident Evil 6's creators held a special presentation to talk up the game's characters, enemies, and fear factor.

After days of intense nicely-fashioned trailer [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115321-Mysterious-Blog-Sparks-Resident-Evil-6-Rumors-UPDATED] this week. Pretty as it is, though, the trailer isn't especially heavy on specifics; happily, the executives who took the stage to introduce the game at the Resident Evil Premier Anniversary Party in Tokyo on Friday were.

Executive producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, and game director Eiichiro Sasaki led the presentation of the game, which is due for release on the 20th of November 2012. According to Andriasang [http://andriasang.com/comzps/re6_anniversary_details/], Kobayashi said that the team has worked to make the game the "ultimate horror entertainment," with an emphasis on anticipated fear and making the scale of said fear overwhelming.

They then dropped a few character tidbits. Resident Evil 6 will feature four main protagonists, its seems, two of whom will be familiar to fans of the series: Leon and Chris. Both will be playable and their stories will run concurrently, with Chris spending most of his time in one Chinese city while Leon hangs out in the USA. Coming in third is a mysterious male who was described only as "the man who's told to save the world" (who would seem to be Mr. "The World Can Have My Blood" from the trailer). The fourth lead is a woman called Helena Harper, who was apparently working a security detail for the US President prior to whatever event it was that unleashed the zombies. If her guilty chat in the trailer is anything to go by, she'll have been heavily involved in said event from the beginning.

In addition to wading through putrid seas of the undead, players will also come up against the "Javo" (pictured looking generally upset at the top of this post). The executives didn't give many details on the origin, nature, purpose or general comportment of this fellow other than saying his existence will have an even greater impact on the world than the existence of the zombie menace.

There's not really much else to say at the moment. The trailer looks exciting, Kobayashi helmed Resident Evil 4, and we've got a new breed of enemy to look forward to. Roll on.

Resident Evil 6 will shuffle menacingly onto Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on 20 November.


Source: Joystiq [http://andriasang.com/comzps/re6_anniversary_details/]









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[scotth266]

Good. I just hope that they learned something from Resident Evil 5 and make the game longer, even if they have to sacrifice co-op play. It was a good idea to add it, but the lack of story content really made me sad.

 

[Kopikatsu]

And now my assumption that the mercenary is Alex Wesker takes a mighty blow. If it was Alex, they probably would have just said so. Especially since they named the other new character. (Helena)

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

Four main protagonists.....I pray they make it flow and don't make random jumps when things are getting exciting to a boring segment. But i feel this one's going to be all over the place and won't flow like Resi4 did.

 

[scotth266]

And now my assumption that the mercenary is Alex Wesker takes a mighty blow. If it was Alex, they probably would have just said so. Especially since they named the other new character. (Helena)

He could be one of the clones. Wesker was just one of many, and while the rest were supposed to have died, ANYTHING is possible in the Resident Evil series.

 

[gigastar]

And now my assumption that the mercenary is Alex Wesker takes a mighty blow. If it was Alex, they probably would have just said so. Especially since they named the other new character. (Helena)

He could be one of the clones. Wesker was just one of many, and while the rest were supposed to have died, ANYTHING is possible in the Resident Evil series.

I, personally, dont think Wesker would keep a can of doombots [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActuallyADoombot] or clones in reserve, much less trust them to not try to kill each other or Wesker himself.

Besides, Capcom seems to be going for a better story in 6. And a better story here would consist of moving on to the bigger bad [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BiggerBad], not sticking with the same guy whos been around for 14 years and is likely to still be around for much longer with all the midquels, remakes and spinoffs Capcom are still making for the series.

 

[scotth266]

And now my assumption that the mercenary is Alex Wesker takes a mighty blow. If it was Alex, they probably would have just said so. Especially since they named the other new character. (Helena)

He could be one of the clones. Wesker was just one of many, and while the rest were supposed to have died, ANYTHING is possible in the Resident Evil series.

I, personally, dont think Wesker would keep a can of doombots [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActuallyADoombot] or clones in reserve, much less trust them to not try to kill each other or Wesker himself.

Who says that Wesker knew that clone-guy was still alive (assuming he's a clone)? Besides, this guy doesn't appear to be a direct copy of Wesker, he has his own personality and stuff. I'm aiming for a "polarity twin" concept here, not a Doombot.

The reason I like the Wesker clone idea is because it's the most recent thing in the Resident Evil universe involving blood, and Wesker's blood was supposed to be unique in some fashion (I can't remember exactly why, but it was important). And while the Resiverse has a habit of introducing new big bads, it doesn't exactly have a problem with adding heroes (which is what this guy seems to be, a hero or anti-hero at worst) or bringing up elements of past stories.

 

[Jacob Towell]

Does anyone think that the mercenary could possibly be HUNK unmasked...he would need something to do after the fall of umbrella, mercenary seems right up his alley...possible but not probable

 

[gigastar]

And now my assumption that the mercenary is Alex Wesker takes a mighty blow. If it was Alex, they probably would have just said so. Especially since they named the other new character. (Helena)

He could be one of the clones. Wesker was just one of many, and while the rest were supposed to have died, ANYTHING is possible in the Resident Evil series.

I, personally, dont think Wesker would keep a can of doombots [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActuallyADoombot] or clones in reserve, much less trust them to not try to kill each other or Wesker himself.

Who says that Wesker knew that clone-guy was still alive (assuming he's a clone)? Besides, this guy doesn't appear to be a direct copy of Wesker, he has his own personality and stuff. I'm aiming for a "polarity twin" concept here, not a Doombot.

The reason I like the Wesker clone idea is because it's the most recent thing in the Resident Evil universe involving blood, and Wesker's blood was supposed to be unique in some fashion (I can't remember exactly why, but it was important). And while the Resiverse has a habit of introducing new big bads, it doesn't exactly have a problem with adding heroes (which is what this guy seems to be, a hero or anti-hero at worst) or bringing up elements of past stories.

Well i decided i cant be bothered getting into a discussion over where Capcom should drag the story to probably ruin it further (remember, its Capcom) but i can tell you why blood is important at the least.

With various viruses and parasites kicking about the place in the Resident Evil universe for about 60 years its inevitable that some humans, by law of natrual selection, can resist the negative effects of the viruses (immense drop in intelligence, craving for human flesh, explosive uncontrolled physical mutations to the host, etc.) and still gain the befeficial effects of them (super strength, speed, reflexes, regeneration, tentacle arms and lightning powers)

So Umbrella began hunting people who were resistant to the viruses and then used the antibodies in thier blood to regulate the existing viruses in subjects to produce either new viruses or certain variations on the usual outcome of the unregulated viruses.

An example from RE5, Jill's body had developed a total resistance to the t-virus at some point, between being kidnapped by Wesker and his starting on trying to create Uroboros, so he used antibodies from her blood was used to regulate the Uroboros virus from being completely lethal to what Wesker desired to force an evolution in humankind.

So this new guy, Alex Wesker or not, is probably carrying some form of antibody that is apparently warranting something that looks suspisciously like a new Nemesis variant to come after him and suck him dry with that mechanical arm full of needles.

 

[CharrHearted]

Does anyone think that the mercenary could possibly be HUNK unmasked...he would need something to do after the fall of umbrella, mercenary seems right up his alley...possible but not probable

Hunk is an ice cold mercenary, this guy is a cocky awesome dude, my bet it's STEVE or some random dude. The blond haired girl?

100% SHERRY >:l

 

[ShaneGunWolf]

As soon as I get the money, I'm pre-ordering the FUCK out of this thing.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm still a little concerned and reserve judgement until November-whenever-I-actually-get-to-play. As I said in the video's comment section, Chris's section looks a lot like something you would find in Resident Evil's Mercenary mini-game (what with enemies who shoot at you with guns). Leon's section looks a lot like they're trying to go back to Resi-4's style but then, Resi-5 looked like that too.

Something I didn't mention on the video is that we have no idea how the inventory works in the game so hopefully they fixed 5 or just copy-pasted from 4. As for the 2 additional characters, they aren't mentioned as being playable. Helena and Mr. Blood could just be there for...ugh...escort missions. Or they could be similar to Shiva from 5 in that they'll have a pistol fetish.

One final note, remember the before-time when Resident Evil 5 was being talked about? One of the features of the game was supposed to be a sort of heat-scale. The hotter/ more dehydrated Chris got, the more prone he was to delusions and, hallucinations. It could have made for some really interesting gameplay, especially if there were friendly NPCs around whom Chris could have mistaken for the walking dead. Here's to hoping Resi-6 won't ditch the fear factor.

 

[Lunar Templar]

:/

well, its Capcom, i expect to not have the games i want from them any more

 

[anthony87]

Who the hell is Alex Wesker? I've beaten all the games and "Alex Wesker" certainly doesn't ring any bells.

It looks like it will be better than 4 and 5, which really doesn't say anything at all. However, that **** rocket Leon can go fuck off. Chris can, too. There are something around a dozen characters in the RE universe that have simply vanished. I want to see them.

I'm still more excited for ORC.

It's the name of one of the Wesker children. It's mentioned in a file near the end of Resi 5.

 

[Beautiful End]

I don't know, Resi. You hurt me bad with RE5. I mean, I literally rage-quit 10 minutes after popping in the disk. You literally took a step back from RE4.

*Sigh*

It looks okay, I guess. I mean, Leon has always starred in good Resi games, like RE2 and 4. I could be wrong, though. Although the whole "We have 4 protagonists so they will all plyay differently although it is one continuous story" scares me. I hope they don't jump back and forth between stories and instead, they stick to what they know, aka, finish one story/the game for the first time and move on with the next.

And for the record, I would NOT like to see Wesker again. He's the bad guy. He's been killed a couple of times now. How many more times do they have to kill the guy in order for him to stay dead?
What's that? His son? Eh...if the game can handle that well, then sure. But I don't wanna see the cliched "I will avenge my father, you cunts!" plot again.

As usual, this is all assumption. I suppose I'll have to wait until more information is release before I continue. :/

Off Topic: A side of me REALLY wants to play Operation Raccoon City. But I'm still dubious about it. So we'll see.

 

[Panayjon]

Does anyone think that the mercenary could possibly be HUNK unmasked...he would need something to do after the fall of umbrella, mercenary seems right up his alley...possible but not probable

Hunk is an ice cold mercenary, this guy is a cocky awesome dude, my bet it's STEVE or some random dude. The blond haired girl?

100% SHERRY >:l

Yup! Though, now I wonder where Claire went... Maybe she's off having adventures with Sheva?

 

[ckam]

I found it funny that cover based mechanics are screwed over by the enemies grabbing you out of them.

 

[Yopaz]

Who the hell is Alex Wesker? I've beaten all the games and "Alex Wesker" certainly doesn't ring any bells.

It looks like it will be better than 4 and 5, which really doesn't say anything at all. However, that **** rocket Leon can go fuck off. Chris can, too. There are something around a dozen characters in the RE universe that have simply vanished. I want to see them.

I'm still more excited for ORC.

http://residentevil.wikia.com/Alex_Wesker Here you go.


OT: This game looks like it has some potential. I really hope it wont let me down.