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

[Pikminister]

Proof?

When contacted, neither Capcom nor OXM could comment on this report. You can see the full cover image, provided by StickSkills, after the break. The issue is scheduled to hit newsstands, officially, on April 5.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/25/re...-raccoon-city/

[Pikminister]

What a letdown if it isn't.

If it is fake... this will happen.

Spoiler:

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Maybe.

[RetroRain]

I too am interested if it is Real.

What a letdown if it isn't.

[Stars_g36]

I too am interested if it is Real.

[RetroRain]

If I buy the new games, I won't be playing them for story. I think 4 and 5 have destroyed the story in my opinion, so I don't play for the story. I don't care if Revelations was a prequel or a sequel. I'll play it because its "Resident Evil", not "Call of Duty".

From what I've seen, Revelations looks great, and I'm liking the sound of RE: Racoon City because it really does sound like Outbreak in a lot of ways. So I'm very eager and excited to see more from these two games.

[Jill4EverSTARS]

I haven't forgotten about Revelations, but it has two things working against it at this point (in my opinion, anyway):

1) It's a prequel.

2) From the looks of the trailer, it has yet another replica of the mansion.

Lol yea another mansion interior is dumb I understand RC because the games that involve it actually take place there while the mansions are different parts of the world rehashing the same design

I think a prequel is needed at times to open new story arcs re5 didn't leave much for a sequel

[RetroRain]

No pictures yet huh? That sucks.

[riderkid]

I already mentioned bloody-disgusting.com here.

They claim 'Capcom confirmed" dah game Raccoon City.

But then again, they took everything from the same source, so...

I dunno.

still captain price versing nicolai volkoff is a dream that has taken my dreams by force

[Pikminister]

ok we cna add
bloody-disgusting.com
the-magicbox.com

to sites covering this game now but both show either screenshots from the movies or resident evil darkside chronicles screenshots. so its not a 50/50 chance of beign real

I already mentioned bloody-disgusting.com here.

They claim 'Capcom confirmed" dah game Raccoon City.

But then again, they took everything from the same source, so...

I dunno.

[riderkid]

ok we cna add
bloody-disgusting.com
the-magicbox.com

to sites covering this game now but both show either screenshots from the movies or resident evil darkside chronicles screenshots. so its not a 50/50 chance of beign real

[Pikminister]

I thought it was a boat with a lavish decor that resembled the interior of the Titanic.

[Archelon]

I haven't forgotten about Revelations, but it has two things working against it at this point (in my opinion, anyway):

1) It's a prequel.

2) From the looks of the trailer, it has yet another replica of the mansion.

[Jill4EverSTARS]

Lol true it could be Kitty City but I'm guessing that the idea of running around as strange operatives (Bertha wtf o_O) totally different gameplay from any previous RE entry they needed maybe one thing that brought familiarity to the game while monsters would do, the looming presence of Raccoon City would definitely bring some nostalgia.

Don't forget Revelations i know a lot of people are discrediting it and not paying much attention to it because it's a handheld but maybe that's a start of what's to come, or Capcom isn't really thinking RE6 at the present moment

[Darkmoon]

If all Capcom is going to do is rehash old ideas and keep going back in time rather than moving forward with the series, then I really do hope Resident Evil 6 is a genuine reboot that has little to no ties to previous games. Maybe just the BSAA and Tricell, but that's it.

I don't mind seeing the return of old Umbrella BOWs, in fact I welcome it, but do something new with them. Place them in a new environment. It's not like you had to be in Raccoon City to encounter them.

No, you know what?

I don't even care about any lingering plot threads anymore. Resident Evil 6 can have absolutely nothing to do with previous games in the series for all I care. Just do something new, but more importantly, do something original. I want Resident Evil to define genres again, not play catchup and blindly follow the herd.

Okay, now I'm done.

Pretty much starting to agree. I'd rather see the games connected to the old ones, but Capcom has to move the series along, somehow. It's the one thing that bugged me about Dead Space...we got a game about Aegis VII, then a comic about the incident there, then a movie about it...and then another game about it. Milking something just makes the whole thing suck. And by God, Capcom is a master of the milking machine.

Idk it seems good that it's Raccoon City although the enemies will be in the same setting they will probably be very different. In old RE games most of them were restricted by the invisible barriers of the game and could pretty much only come at you straightforward. I see Hunter's leaping on walls and onto fire-escapes and show the actual "intelligence" that made the Hunter program so wanted in the first place

This is all true, but there's no reason it couldn't be Kitten City or some such.

as for moving forward I think Capcom is waiting for Damnation to come out first

They shouldn't be. That's a spinoff, and add on. The games are where the main development should be, but so far all the games are remakes, prequels or Mercs. Besides, at this stage at least the plot of Damnation should be done. Capcom should know where the movie's leading them. If they still don't then they have a real problem.

[Jill4EverSTARS]

True I haven't played a Slant Six game so I'm in the dark as to what they're capable of