Resident Evil: Raccoon City announced [Officially confirmed: Post 273]

[Stu]

Absolutely no clue what to think of this. Gameplay video would be helpfull. This is going to come out this fall?

Winter

[RetroRain]

With news all of sudden popping up so fast, we may even get screenshots later today or tomorrow. I mean, if this game is scheduled to be out this fall/winter, then wouldn't it have to be at least 50% done by now?

[Mr. Spencer]

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and fire up Crysis 2.

Look forward to reading everyone's thoughts about this.

[Stu]

With news all of sudden popping up so fast, we may even get screenshots later today or tomorrow. I mean, if this game is scheduled to be out this fall/winter, then wouldn't it have to be at least 50% done by now?

I'd be surprised if we don't have scans/photos at some point by the end of the evening.

[RetroRain]

I'd be surprised if we don't have scans/photos at some point by the end of the evening.

Yay.

[aris13]

Captivate takes place in a couple of weeks so I guess we'll get more info.

[Zombie Fred]

I'm hoping Capcom Japan lends their efforts with composing music for this title. If they can get the same tone Outbreak. This title needs to really bring Raccoon City as a strong character in this game which will be quite the challenge to do.

[Archelon]

My question is, why Slant Six?

And please tell me I'm not the only one who thought this when they saw the name "Bertha"?

[Zombie Fred]

My question is, why Slant Six?

Capcom loves Canada after Blue Castle's success? Also Slant's experiance in the tactical shooter genre (Socom) being a strong plus.

[Archelon]

But weren't the SOCOM games Slant Six developed generally considered the worst in the series?

[aris13]

But weren't the SOCOM games Slant Six developed generally considered the worst in the series?

CR29 can shed some light on this, he's the SOCOM expert around here.

[Zombie Fred]

But weren't the SOCOM games Slant Six developed generally considered the worst in the series?

You bet!

Honestly though, Capcom's involvement with Blue Castle did make a very strong quality product with Dead Rising 2 (but this is got to be credit to Blue Castle "getting" what Dead Rising was about) and I am sure Capcom will be heavily involved supervising the title because of it from being its flagship series.

[Mr. Spencer]

Slant Six were responsible for SOCOM: Confrontation, renowed for being a completely broken game at launch. Almost unplayable, then they patched it and things are better from what I've heard.

[Delta]

It would be funny if they put in the cast of the outbreak games in this and allowed you to kill them. I'm sure a certain thread with a "million views" at capcom unity would love it.

[News Bot]

Not sure if want...

On the one hand, they are finally referring to the USS by its full name (Umbrella Security Service) rather than colloquial name (Umbrella Special Forces). There was indeed a US Army Special Forces team in Raccoon City (corpses can be found in the Raccoon General Hospital and later, the P-12A Waste Incineration Facility). There might be some connection with this USS squad and the 2nd USS Squad led by Rodriguez in Outbreak File 2.

...This can go either way.