It looks like Capcom's Resident Evil surprise for Wii fans is out of the bag.
The latest issue of Famitsu has revealed the upcoming Wii title Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. The game is being handled by Umbrella Chronicles developer Cavia, and looks to be a sequel to 2007's on-rails shooter. The game will take place in Resident Evil 2's Racoon City setting, and and will have players controlling Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy.
With the publisher set to officially make some sort of announcement in North America on Thursday evening, we should know more soon.
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10:40 AM on 03.11.2009
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Why God. They had a chance to do a RE2 Remake, Code Veronica, or perhaps a new game altogether. Saturate the Rails market why don't ya Capcom!?
The rail shooter market for Wii might be "saturated" but a quality title like UC still stands out from the pack. I mean, JRPG's are ap retty saturated market but that didn't make Persona 4 any less outstanding.
It was a rhetorical question :D
Capcom laziness point and case - Dead Rising Chop 'till you drop.
I mean, Umbrella Chronicles wasn't bad, but, well...it's not called Capcom Sequel Stagnation for nothing...
But hey! Look at it this way, we might FINALLY have a Resident Evil game where you can move AND shoot! .... Maybe
Modern Gamers... Be Ashamed!
Capcom to fans: No you are not getting Resident Evil 5 on the Wii. But we still want your money nonetheless.
Oh dear, Capcom. What a missed chance to really give Wii owners something cool. I don't have a Wii, yet, but this really makes me weep.
Think I might have to use my Capcom Unity account today.
Like I said elsewhere, next time Capcom, give the RE license to Valve.
Its very possible that while Capcom are hard at work, they might not have the man power to focus on a Wii RE title. We still have Dead Rising 2, Monster Hunter 3, Lost Planet 2 to come out yet.
Everybody should have seen this coming when the RE2 scenario was excluded from Umbrella Chronicles.
I liked Umbrella Chronicles, so as long as they don't stray too far away from that, this will do just fine.
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still have to play my Re rail shooter as I even bought the gun just havn't touched it in a while.
I already have RE: Umbrella Chronicles. And the only main entry of the RE series I own is RE4 for the Wii. I'm not sure about this.
Look, I enjoyed Umbrella Chronicles, I really did. I generally like on-rail shooters too, but I just get tired of them blowing great chances with games by turning them into on-rail shooter. A good example of this is Dead Space. It would have been amazing to play a Dead Space like the other versions, only with Wiimote aiming done similar to RE4 Wii Edition. But, no, they have to ruin that and turn it into just another on-rail shooter.
They better not do that with this game, and I'd much rather it be a remake of RE2 with the controls of RE4 Wii Edition. That would be far better.
Saturate the rails market? There are like 3 on-rails games on the Wii. At least it's not a RE minigame compilation.
I'm exited for this. I loved Umbrella Chronicles, so another game with backstory will be fine by me. I have RE2 on the GameCube, so I don't really need a remake, although one with RE4-type gameplay would be fun eventually.
Ohh wow, and here I'm sure many of us were thinking RE5 was gonna be out on wii. Well that might still be a possibility, but I guess some folks will have to wait a bit longer.
I should have said "the market will be saturated", however, I never said it was at the present moment. With Dead Space on the way, it seems to be reaching that trend (instead of remaking or porting, just "rail shooter it!")