Resident Evil 6 sent to SOCOM Developer?
A western developer is developing the next iteration in the Resident Evil franchise, if information sent to game blog Kotaku is to be believed.
According to the document the game is being handled by Slant Six, developers behind the PSP SOCOM titles, and that the project’s name is Resident Evil: Raccoon City.
Could this be a modern take on the brilliant, but under appreciated, ‘Outbreak’ mini series? Or a frightful new strain of the T-virus emerging in the town due to its explosive sendoff at the culmination of Resident Evil 2/3. Nuclear wastelands are all the rage nowadays…
Slant Six’s website claims to be under development on ‘an amazing new project’ that is unannounced, while in March this year they hired a Japanese translator/interpreter.
It certainly wouldn’t be a surprising move for Capcom following Bionic Commando, Dead Rising, and *groan* Devil May Cry all moving to western developers, it makes sense that they would send Resident Evil the same way. For better or worse.
Interesting times ahead indeed, with 3DS title Revelations looking like a real dream for Resident Evil fans then this could be a chance to tread new ground. Many saw Resident Evil 5 as already being too similar to Resident Evil 4, so a new direction makes sense.
What direction do you want to see the Resident Evil franchise head? ‘The bin’ is not a suitable answer.
4 Responses to “Resident Evil 6 sent to SOCOM Developer?”
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I liked the over the shoulder from R.E. 4 and 5. The whole fixed camera thing from past games kinda annoyed me. I wouldn’t mind seeing RE 6 in the same theme as the past two.
I enjoyed the setup of 4 and 5, although 5 itself was a terrible game really.
Too short, too bright.
The only thing that made it better in my opinion, also doomed it as a horror game and that’s the two player option, but everyone knows that once you aren’t alone, it’s about as scary as little big planet.
So…what your saying is that Sackboy doesn’t terrify you…? Maybe I’m the only one lol
I dunno Tom, introducing more players does not doom a potential pant browning horror game.
The Outbreak series itself stands as testament to that fact, and playing Left 4 Dead 2 in Realism mode on Expert is guaranteed to send you crying to sleep.
Creating horror is much more about creating an atmosphere, the problem with Resident Evil 5 is that it had no atmosphere to speak of and compounded issues further with the extra character whilst still peddling the series trademark ham packed scripting.
I’m incredibly interested in this, however I’m equally worried that this signals yet another leap into the direction of action over horror, and that makes me a sad bunny.