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Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles Details
Yesterday scans hit the internet with scans from Famitsu revealing the newest Resident Evil title for the Wii. Capcom has wasted no time in releasing more information, most of which confirms what we already surmised from the screenshots. Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles is indeed a sequel to Umbrella Chronicles, though the reason for the title change is that the Umbrella Corporation is no longer the enemy.
It is set during the events of Resident Evil 2, with Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield braving the hordes of T-virus infectees on September 29th, 1998. The overall format of the gameplay will be the same, with players blasting away at zombies and other creatures in an on-rails arcade shooter format. Capcom promises a heightened sense of realism this time around though with better camera angles, sharpened visual effects and the ability to see your partner in front of you on screen (for single player mode only).
Complaints about the difficulty of the original have been addressed as the main focus of Capcom is replayability, so while less experienced gamers can play the game without frustration, the more experienced can still get a true challenge. Darkside Chronicles will have more of a horror bent than Umbrella Chronicles and will have scenarios from other games than RE2, but Capcom isn’t revealing any of those quite yet. The game is currently about 35% complete and no release date is set.
Famitsu Reveals Wii Biohazard Title
Thus far Capcom has been dodging any specifics on a Wii port of Resident Evil 5 and when recently asked about it they said that soon Wii owners would be ‘very happy’. An advertisement in Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has shown a new title for the Wii in the Resident Evil series. The title is Biohazard (the Japanese name for the Resident Evil series) The Darkside Chronicles.
There’s not much information to go on from the screenshots in the advertisement, but it looks like Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield will be the main characters, which hints that it might be set in the timeline of Resident Evil 2, with players fighting hordes of zombies in Raccoon City. One of the pictures shows some shambling zombies, which is no surprise, but closer inspection reveals a red crosshair in the shot, suggesting that this could be another on-rails shooter in the same vein as Umbrella Chronicles especially since both titles have the word ‘chronicles’ in the title.
Is this really the announcement that’s going to make Wii owners happy? Maybe, but I doubt it’s going to please hardcore fans of the survival horror series.