Earlier this week, Capcom shared a brand new preview for Resident Evil Requiem, the ninth recreation within the long-running franchise. In keeping with Capcom, Requiem is already on 1 million want lists throughout PSN and Steam. However would the quantity have been that prime if Capcom went via with its unique plans to make Requiem a web based recreation?
Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi shared a web based developer diary on Capcom’s official site (through VGC) and revealed that the sport was initially developed as a web based title. Nakanishi added that the group got here up with “fascinating ideas” for the sport, however finally deserted their on-line plans when the group realized that RE followers did not need it. As a substitute, Requiem was re-envisioned as a single-player recreation like its eight predecessors.
Contemplating the origins of Requiem as a web based title, that will clarify why it options Grace Ashcroft, the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft from the franchise’s first multiplayer recreation, Resident Evil Outbreak. The story can also be selecting up the narrative threads from the primary three RE video games by returning to Raccoon Metropolis 30 years after it was bombed to finish the zombie infestation.
Throughout the Capcom Showcase, one in all Requiem’s devs defined why Leon Kennedy is a nasty match for horror video games like the present chapter within the franchise. Grace is an FBI agent within the recreation and she or he does have some firearm expertise, however she’s not an motion hero like Leon. It’ll be extra of a battle for Grace to outlive than it might have been for Leon.
Resident Evil Requiem will hit Xbox Sequence X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC on February 27, 2026. That date is just below a month shy of the thirtieth anniversary of the unique Resident Evil recreation.