Capcom has revealed a live-action Resident Evil Requiem trailer that showcases our greatest look but at the ruins of Raccoon City, a few weeks earlier than gamers get to discover it for themselves.
The live-action brief options Longlegs actress Maika Monroe, who performs a mom residing in Raccoon City shortly earlier than its notorious zombie outbreak. Issues sadly don’t finish properly for her (or her daughter) on this three-minute brief movie that’s meant to set the scene forward of Requiem’s arrival.
Followers can now discover the brief movie by scanning QR codes discovered on viral advertising and marketing showing in New York’s Time Sq. and round Hollywood. Alternatively, its YouTube hyperlink is now reside and followers are sharing it round social media:
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The trailer options cops, canine, and quite a few background actors as zombies. A large shot exhibits the large crater left by the missile strike at the tip of Resident Evil 3, designed to finally neutralize the town’s undead outbreak. At road stage, the town subsequently seems to be post-apocalyptic, with burnt out automobiles and part-collapsed skyscrapers so far as the attention can see.
Followers are already discussing the trailer’s finish, which options two shadows transferring previous. Dialogue is then heard saying “That is the final of them, facility secured,” after which “Copy that, Raccoon City is ours.” These voices actually do not sound like Requiem’s main duo of Leon S. Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft, so who’re they? And who has claimed the town now — Umbrella?
Resident Evil followers have recognized for a while that they’ll lastly get to return to Raccoon City within the sequence’ upcoming Requiem, which is about to tie-up long-gestating plot threads associated to the placement and to the shadowy Umbrella Corportation which were dangling ever for the reason that franchise’s origins. An early trailer for Requiem featured a glimpse at the ruined metropolis, and Leon’s former Raccoon City Police Division headquarters.
How rather more will we get to discover? With solely a few weeks to go till launch, Capcom appears to have saved a lot of Resident Evil Requiem underneath wraps. That stated, the sport’s director just lately made a level of clearing up fan hypothesis that the sport will probably be open world.
“This 12 months is the thirtieth anniversary of the Resident Evil sequence, so it appears like no coincidence that 2026’s Resident Evil Requiem is combining the very best concepts of the saga into what seems to be a fantastically constructed tribute to every little thing that makes the sequence so nice,” IGN wrote in our latest Resident Evil Requiem remaining preview. “Do you want tense survival horror? It’s right here. Wanna go all weapons blazing with intense motion and a quip-obsessed hero? You get that too.”
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