Resident Evil Requiem will function traditional characters linked to the Raccoon City incident, Capcom has now acknowledged — whereas stopping wanting confirming precisely who.
Hypothesis is rife that floppy-haired fan-favorite Leon S. Kennedy can be again for Requiem, revisiting the metropolis the place he spent a fateful first day as a rookie police officer again in Resident Evil 2.
However, up to now, Capcom has refused to debate whether or not followers will reconnect with any acquainted faces in Requiem, selecting as an alternative to focus its advertising and marketing efforts on new protagonist Grace Ashcroft, daughter of Resident Evil Outbreak’s Alyssa Ashcroft.
Now, in an interview with Well-Played, producer Masato Kumazawa has lastly confirmed that “sure, there are going to be some characters from the previous collection to return in.”
It is price stating that Kumazawa is responding right here to a query which requested particularly whether or not different Outbreak characters, in addition to Alyssa, will present up in Requiem. However Kumazawa does then go on to say characters “concerned in the Raccoon City incident” usually will seem. Here is the full quote:
“I might say that sure, there are going to be some characters from the previous collection to return in, however don’t over-expect or hype it,” Kumazawa teased. “We will’t promise you something about that, however the solely factor I can say is that there can be characters which have been concerned in the Raccoon City incident concerned in the recreation.”
The controversy round whether or not different characters — and particularly Leon — are in Requiem has dominated dialogue of the recreation up to now, although Capcom appears completely happy to maintain the hypothesis going. Whereas specializing in Grace Ashcroft in trailers and early gameplay previews, the writer has by no means explicitly said that she is the sole playable character.
In a separate interview revealed on-line this week, Kumazawa branded a selected fan picture of Leon with an eyepatch as “pretend information,” and urged it was the work of AI. However once more, the producer stopped wanting merely saying Leon is not in the recreation — which, at this level, you’d suppose builders would merely state in order to handle expectations.
Resident Evil Requiem launches on February 27, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5, Swap 2 and Xbox Collection X/S. There’s nonetheless loads of time for extra reveals.
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