What a remarkably distasteful development:

New images have emerged for the upcoming new Resident Evil title in the long running zombie franchise from Capcom. The new screenshots showcase a few new characters as well as an unlikely ability: using zombies as shields.

Resident Evil Raccoon City is a squad-based shooter, which I believe is a first in the world of third-person zombie games. It’s a little shocking given how long 3D zombie shooters have been around, but I guess you can only look to Capcom to innovate in a genre they perfected.

Actually, as previously discussed here on the ZRC blog, and in keeping with Capcom practice these days, the development of this game has been outsourced to Slant 6, a Canadian game studio with experience in squad based shooters:

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is collaboration between Capcom and Vancouver based studio Slant 6 Games and is scheduled for release this Winter. Since the launch of the first title 15 years ago the Resident Evil® series has enjoyed phenomenal success, selling over 45 million units worldwide to date.

Therefore it’s Slant 6 that has found a way to ‘innovate’ their way into virtual war crimes, not Capcom per se.

Inside baseball aside, I guess we can rule out any thoughtful consideration of the plight of the Differently Animated from this upcoming Resident Evil spin-off. It’s hard to imagine how much further the series can stoop, but Slant Six seems up to the challenge of adding new layers to the already fetid pile of depravity that is Capcom’s flagship Anti-Zombie universe.

So much for Canada’s reputation of ‘niceness’. Nice unless you’re Undead? That’s hardly nice at all.

Tags: Videogames

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