Resident Evil Requiem Will Be Playable in Both First and Third-Person at Launch, Capcom Confirms

Resident Evil: Requiem was yet announced conscionable past week astatine Summer Game Fest, with a trailer introducing a caller protagonist. But what we didn't spot successful that trailer is simply a new(ish) diagnostic coming to Resident Evil: Requiem: we'll beryllium capable to play the crippled successful either first- oregon third-person.

We saw this diagnostic successful enactment oh-so-briefly during a behind-closed-doors presumption astatine Play Days implicit the weekend. While the immense bulk of the gameplay we saw was successful first-person, astatine the precise end, we saw a intermission paper unfastened with the enactment to toggle betwixt the two.

This is simply a large woody for the series, which has had games successful some first- and third-person earlier (as good arsenic third-person fixed camera), but has lone allowed players to take which enactment they preferred once, arsenic a portion of the DLC for Resident Evil: Village. This should besides soothe immoderate who criticized the power to first-person position that took spot with Resident Evil 7.

The remainder of the gameplay we saw astatine the showcase was very, precise acquainted Resident Evil. We got to ticker the caller protagonist, Grace Ashcroft, prime up wherever the uncover trailer near disconnected — strapped to a gurney successful an old, decrepit hospital. We watched her flight and dilatory research the abandoned building, uncovering Resident Evil staple items similar a lighter, a screwdriver, and a fuse that helped her progress, and yet moving into a fewer messed-up looking creatures that chased her astir arsenic she tried to escape.

What we didn't spot was immoderate motion of Leon S. Kennedy, who fans fishy is the existent protagonist of Resident Evil: Requiem. We'll person to hold for Capcom to uncover much to spot if and however Leon surfaces.

You tin work each astir our acquisition with Resident Evil Requiem successful some camera modes successful our hands-on preview close here.

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