Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City - Teaser Trailer

[Zombie_X]

They need to fix the ice-skating zombies.... Also like others mentioned, the animation is stiff and jerky but this can be fixed before launch and I have no doubt that it will.

[Stu]

Now Outbreak 1 + 2 as XBLA and PSN titles, with a bonus File 3 with the scenario's we never got and I think we'd have a good Raccoon City fix again.

This would be a financial disaster for Capcom, Resident Evil 1 and 2 whilst in concept were ahead of the time, in execution they were poor. I don't believe Capcom would regain any of the investment they'd put into porting them across.

That said, i do think it's what Capcom SHOULD do, because you need to take risks in business. They should just keep in mind that those "campaigning" for Outbreak's return make up only a tiny percentage (probably barely even 1%) of their potential market.

[Alexia_Ashford]

See Stu is making friends by the day. One day your going to offended the wrong guy and wake up with your dogs apputated head in your bed.

I am tired and I am irritable, so allow me to be utterly and totally blunt. The next person to start random insults or start shit flinging matches or any of the money shit that's been in more threads than I can care to count the last few days will be banned for 24 hours. If only because I need a cool down period before I stake one of you lot through the chest with my dick and ejaculate steaming white hate into your heart.

Just to re-iterate.. NO. CrimsonElder is now enjoying a 24 hour vacation from the site, if anyone else wants to win one, feel free to join in.

[TheSelfishGene]

Leon is the best thing about this trailer.
The rest of it is just annoying.
The title-card cutting in way too frequently. I mean, if I clicked the link to watch the trailer, chances are I know the name of the game... Just put it up at the end?!
You never see more than 1 or 2 seconds of gameplay. And when I do, it stars characters that I don't know or care about, and probably won't.

This makes me worry that the gameplay doesn't look so fantastic, so they have to use the Leon and the title for distractions. That's the message I get out of it.
And Leon is in the trailer at the end, and he speaks. Big deal. It's all about the brand recognition. And even though your logo takes equal amounts of screen time as the gameplay, seeing Leon will probably make people more interested in the game. Leon is not in every Resident Evil game, and say what you want about Leon, but there's a very good chance that he's in alot of people's favourite RE game (4 or 2).

As for the new characters. I've forgotten their names and don't know what they look like. This trailer doesn't help that any. But remember, it is only a teaser. And that's all that Leon's doing at the end... A bit of forward promotion to pique peoples interest in the game. I'd be very suprised if we don't see the other characters and gameplay in more trailers later down the line. Heck, I'd be more surpised if we don't have the entire game spoiled for us before release ala RE5 and UC. It's still very early days people...

[Humor Tumor]

I really don't mind Leon being in the trailer. It is set in the RE2 RE3 timeframe, and since RE2 Leon I am completely cool with, I don't mind it as much.

Of course, they could still make him like RE4 Leon, but seeing as the general gameplay (or what you could call gameplay) is fairly slap dash it won't seem too out of place.

But being a teaser, I don't really see it as a problem. What I saw as a problem was what looked like soldiers just mowing down zombies in a hail of bullets.

[bertjert]

I think you just feel this because you exactly know who the guy at the end is and what to expect from him.

[RetroRain]

Why the hell is Leon being targeted?

Someone mentioned this, I don't remember who it was off-hand, but they made an interesting point.

This person said that Leon is awfully popular for a rookie cop, first day on the job.

Meaning... Why the hell is Leon being targeted if it is his first day on the job?

The only things I can think of is that Leon had prior knowledge to Umbrella before entering Raccoon City, which I doubt was the case, or that Leon became the target of the USS by simply being a living cop who was not zombie. But from what they were saying, it sounds like Leon is the main target before the USS even enters the city, like that is their main goal, or one of their main goals.

Or maybe Leon isn't one of the main goals until later in the game, when Leon has uncovered more information, thus giving the USS the reason to eliminate him?

Now obviously we can't tell until we get the game, but we can speculate.

[Darkmoon]

I assume it's a case of Leon simply being a civic authority figure. Umbrella wants chaos. Cops do not. Cops, therefore, eat a hot lead sandwhich. In theory the remaining S.T.A.R.S members should be a higher priority, and Leon will be an earlier mission. Assuming the fight never descends into the sewers and labs (the game looks more at home with wide open spaces for it's gameplay, but we'll see) it may simply be that there orders are 'Shoot everyone' (still think this is dumb, but this is Capcom) and Leon is someone they spot who they then hound after like yippy dogs, despite having better things to do.

Most likely, Leon's not that important to the game, although it's impossible to say. Maybe he keeps sneakily escpaing via ninja magic and the team becomes frustrated yet strangely attracted to him, even being tempted to switch sides thanks to his smooth good looks and winning personality? But he's probably just being used as a big selling point. Sorta like the horror in RE5. It wasn't there, but damn, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a horror game from the ad campaign.

[RetroRain]

Well they said that the RPD would be in the game, so I'm assuming that we would be able to explore the RPD as well, but I also hope that they include the other areas as well, such as the sewers, hospital, park, Dead Factory, and the Umbrella Lab. But if I had to guess, I'd say there is a strong chance of seeing these areas.

[Mr. Rod]

I think you just feel this because you exactly know who the guy at the end is and what to expect from him.

LOL And this guy had to copy/paste exactly what I wrote? (Who was this btw? Since it's banned now..)

[Darkmoon]

Spambot. I forgot to delete his post.

[RetroRain]

Now am I correct in saying that not only is this game being published by Capcom, but Capcom also has their hand in the development alongside Slant Six?

[Stu]

Now am I correct in saying that not only is this game being published by Capcom, but Capcom also has their hand in the development alongside Slant Six?

They'll say so, just so people's immediate thoughts aren't "Well what do Slant Six know?" in the early stages.

Then as development continues we'll start to hear less and less from Capcom until it's only Slant Six running the show.

"Lip service" i believe it's called.

[Humor Tumor]

They'll say so, just so people's immediate thoughts aren't "Well what do Slant Six know?" in the early stages.

Then as development continues we'll start to hear less and less from Capcom until it's only Slant Six running the show.

"Lip service" i believe it's called.

If this turns up true, I'll be very worried of the final product.