🎮 Get ready to sell your soul to the Umbrella Corporation again, because Resident Evil Requiem is dragging its rotting corpse towards us on February 28th, and Capcom is desperate to keep the hype train on life support! 🚂💀 The Resident Evil Showcase is dropping this week to dump more cryptic lore and gameplay clips on us, and honestly, we’re all just waiting to see if the inventory management is still more stressful than the actual zombies.
Hold onto your butts, because earlier this month, Nvidia decided to bless us with a trailer that looked suspiciously like a tech demo for “Ray Tracing: Mild Inconvenience Edition.” 🤡 We got a peek at a “busy” city environment that wasn’t just a train car or a dingy lab, but a whole actual city that hasn’t been completely nuked yet (give it time). It had cars! Pedestrians! And, inevitably, monsters lurking in hallways because architects in the RE universe really love narrow corridors. 🏢👻 The trailer, which you can watch below (if you enjoy corporate propaganda about DLSS 4), showed off NVIDIA’s latest wizardry to make sure the zombies look extra glossy while you’re running away from them.
Now, not content with one trailer, Capcom is doubling down with another Resident Evil Showcase this week. If you remember the October 2022 Showcase, it was basically the pre-game lobby for Resident Evil: Village DLC and Resident Evil 4 Remake flexing its graphics. Capcom is repeating this “peek behind the curtain” trick, probably hoping we don’t notice they are using the same engine assets since 2019. 🪄
The promotional art for this Showcase is obsessed with a specific gun on the cover of Requiem. Director Koshi Nakanishi previously hinted this gun is “important,” which is code for “it goes pew pew and we need to sell merchandise.” 🔫 While chatting with AUTOMATON, Nakanishi dropped some “insight” on boss fights. He claims Requiem will be more like the OG Resident Evil and RE2, focusing on “using your wits” in closed spaces rather than flashy action. In other words: get ready for tank controls, fixed camera angles that hide the enemy you just walked into, and puzzles involving turning valves to open doors. 🧩🚑 Because nothing says “horror” like realizing you forgot to pick up the red keycard three hallways ago.
How To Watch The Stream (Or Don’t, I’m Not Your Mom)
The “event” happens on January 15, promising the “latest information” (aka corporate buzzwords). They explicitly warn that “some of the games included in the show aren’t suitable for children.” 👶🚫 This likely means we’ll see some gore or perhaps a glimpse of the terrifying microtransaction screen. Maybe they’ll finally announce that Resistance spin-off no one asked for again.
If you want to ruin your sleep schedule, tune in at 5:00 p.m. EST on January 15. You can watch it on the official Resident Evil YouTube channel. Don’t forget to smash that like button and subscribe, because content creators need to pay their bills too. 💸📺
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