Alternate Edition High-Rez Famitsu Scans + Interview Translation

[ElusionM]

To start off, the Spencer Estate in RE5 is NOT the same exact replica as the Arklay Mansion. Because if you notice:

-In the dining room, there is no door leading to the Kenneth Hall.
-The dining room itself has changed.
-The Main Hall has slightly changed from the REmake Mansion.
-The 2nd floor dining room balcony has been changed.
-2nd floor Main Hall balconies have holes and gaps between them --> meaning new traps.

And more. So don't worry. And as for new content:


Capcom could REALLY milk in A LOT of "$$" if they can manage to give us Seperate Ways for a number of characters: (small spoilers, so be warned):

Kirk: We get to play as him, but like an FPS type mode, where you're always in the chopper and basic objectives being provide cover fire, for example, YOU have to lead the chopper to the Assembly Place in time and blow the gate up for Chris and Sheva to escape, etc. His mission can end when it does, after the "What the fuck are those?" scene.

Josh: A small Josh-Seperate Ways could be nice, see what he has been doing, etc.

And heck, even add in like a 30min Irving Seperate Ways.

I'm serious, if Capcom can pull of these kinds of things for once, they'll really milk out on Resident Evil: Alternate Edition.

[Jill's Boob]

And why do they keep saying "This was planned from the start." If they had it planned from the start, it should have been included in the main game.

Well, I know the "cool" thing is to bash on both Capcom AND Resi 5, but does anyone remember the early speculation that there would be "playable flashbacks?" Everyone ended up chalking it up to a mistranslation between Japanese & English, but it could have been a possibility.

Knowing Capcom, they saved such a thing for purposely enhancing the selling point of the inevitable RE5 "X edition."

And it is apparently working.

Barry was in the mansion, Rebecca was in the mansion. I know it's a different mansion, but merc levels would would be fitting with those two. I don't care much about Barry, but I would love play as Rebecca.

That's funny, since 99% of the rest of the people would love to play as Barry and don't give a shit about Rebecca.

[Mr. Rod]

Still with the no-enemies thing, huh?

[Dark_Chris]

WAIT!

Is this being done in Classic RE style? The pics remind me moreso of REmake and Zero? I had just presumed it was going to be the same over the shoulder view as 4 & 5 or am I missing something?

...

My interest in this has increased ten fold.

- The behind-the-shoulder camera will be used, although if you noticed from the screenshots, there are no enemies present?

[Zombie Fred]

WAIT!

Is this being done in Classic RE style? The pics remind me moreso of REmake and Zero? I had just presumed it was going to be the same over the shoulder view as 4 & 5 or am I missing something?

...

My interest in this has increased ten fold.

Same here to be honest. The lighting done in Resident Evil 5 was great stuff, I found it disappointing that we never get to look around the Spencer mansion to find more information about him and to take a nostalgia trip back down to memory lane. Now I get a smell that with this they will go back to more of the older roots and read people's impressions to see if they should dig more into the horror side of Resident Evil for the next title, and I hope the reception from old and new will do it justice to explore this dark creepy estate; traps around the corners, BOWS (Hunters, Crimson Heads, T-variants) to bring a nice spark of tensity to the player in the MT engine.

Ty, what do you think?

[CODE_umb87]

Definitely, Crimson Heads have far more in common with Majinis or Ganados, it would just make so much sense.

I'm really hoping for this. Capcom should know by now that zombies aren't the slow movers that they used to be, almost all zombie movies today depict them as fast runners. Maybe the Crimson Heads can be controlled somehow by Spencer?

[Biokk]

WAIT!

Is this being done in Classic RE style? The pics remind me moreso of REmake and Zero? I had just presumed it was going to be the same over the shoulder view as 4 & 5 or am I missing something?

...

My interest in this has increased ten fold.

[Zombie Fred]

From the looks of it, it sounds like they've already finished the actual product, they're just waiting on the Sony wand thing.

They did say about trying new game modes and other characters so perhaps that is what they are working on now, and more polish.

[Paracelsus]

I dout the Majini will be the ememies Jill and Chris never meet them until RE5 I know in my heart it will be Zombies why else is it been kept a secret.

I totally agree.

[Sephiroth]

I dout the Majini will be the ememies in this story Jill and Chris never meet them until RE5 I know in my heart it will be Zombies why else is it been kept a secret.

[Stu]

Definitely, Crimson Heads have far more in common with Majinis or Ganados, it would just make so much sense.

[[STARS]TyranT]

Crimsons Heads have to, just HAVE TO be in this, it would still fit with the more action approach of Resident Evil 5, and just be all round awesome.

[Paracelsus]

OH. MY. GOD. I haven't been this excited for a Resident Evil game since REmake. Let alone this only being a chapter, plus a few extras. Now I have to wait until spring 2010?!! Crap. The scans look sweet! Capcom did a good job so far by giving it a very creepy vibe.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to calmly lie down and have a heart attack from excitement.

[A-J]

From the looks of it, it sounds like they've already finished the actual product, they're just waiting on the Sony wand thing.

[cvxfreak]

The enemies have obviously been decided. It's just that they haven't revealed them to us. We'll find out soon enough.