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What will be the next Resident Evil remake?

During the last few years Capcom has become one of the most solid large companies in terms of the quantity and quality of its releases. Part of it is due to the strategy they have in place with resident Evil. resident evil 7 kicked off a modernization of the saga on two fronts.

On the one hand, new deliveries based on the survival horror modern. On the other, one look at the past to bring back the previous installments with those same fundamentals. All this with the aim of build a coherent wholedarning at the same time from the left (the reimagining of Resident Evil 2 Remake, Resident Evil 3 Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake) and to the right (Resident Evil 8 Village and what is to come).

Who knows if what touches after that Resident Evil 4 Remake hits stores this March 24 for PC, PS5, Xbox Series and PS4, maybe the ninth installment, or maybe another remake. But what is clear is that the fabric is still torn, that there are still stitches to be given on both sides, and that more revisions of past deliveries are inevitable. But as it is, Capcom has several possibilities From this moment.

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Resident Evil 5 Remake?

The most logical thing, considering the history so far, is a Resident Evil 5 Remake. The game released in 2009 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC is one of the most divisive in the saga because it took the story further, perhaps too much. bet on the action of the fourth installment. It was about a shooter in third person set in the fictional Kijuju slum, in africawhere we were constantly accompanied (the leading duo are Chris and Sheva) and which offered a much more fun experience in cooperative.

Of course, you would benefit from a controls modernization (here we can’t walk and aim either), and although it is true that it still looks pretty good, the possibilities of the latest generation consoles would come in handy for enhance the aesthetic premise from which he started: darkness, terror (which he had rather little) in full sunlight. Current lighting techniques could get a lot out of this, both visually and playably.

But Resident Evil 5 It is a very different game from the games in the series created with the RE Engine. Introducing it in the unification of the saga would entail changes of weight in the gameplay and in the structure, and of course in the script; the title was labeled a racist in its day and this may be an opportunity for Capcom to correct its mistakes. The basic plot premise and playable ideas of RE5 they are interesting, so we would welcome a major review of the fifth numbered installment of the series with open arms.

Resident Evil Code: Veronica Remake?

Another possibility is that the title that received the treatment of remake out Resident Evil Code: Veronicathat survival horror classic i was born in Dreamcast in 2000 before being ported to the PlayStation 2 and GameCube some time later. Although it did not have the success of the numbered installments of the saga, the adventure of Claire and Chris has its followers, and for those who are fans of resident Evil since the first installments it has been the preferred option, so it is not unimaginable that Capcom could bring it back, although the company is not very fond of it: it is one of the few main games in the series without remastering for PC and/or for the past. console generation.

code veronicawhich preserves the structure, perspective and control of the resident Evil classics, would benefit greatly from a revision of the draft of Resident Evil 2 Remakebut that also assumes that the work to be done is much broader than the one that entailed an assumption remake of the fifth installment.

Also, if remakes they have made to date following the order of release from the originals, it would be strange if Capcom went back to code veronica after Resident Evil 4 Remake. Perhaps they prefer to leave this adventure, which took us to a prison and a laboratory in Antarctica, out of canon. If they don’t, they’ll be faced with another tirade: What about Resident Evil Zero?

Resident Evil Remake Remake?

Continuing with this hypothesis (the one that Capcom wants to leave out of the current canon everything that is not a numbered installment) there is another possibility other than Resident Evil 5 Remakealthough perhaps less likely. Resident Evil Remake It is one of the best reimaginings ever made of any video game, but it is also true that its playable proposal (fixed cameras, turret control, etc.) far from what it is resident Evil now.

It may seem like another remake of resident Evil be curling the loop, but cannot be ruled out. But, in that case, why didn’t they start there? It can be argued that the success of Resident Evil 2 Remake it came to them suddenly and that in the strategy that they drew from there they did not want to include their masterpiece in case the plan stumbled at some point.

Perhaps, because of the recognition that this version for GameCube (rereleased on modern systems and easily accessible) has, they drew a plan based on homogenizing the entire numbered sagafrom the second part, and as final climaxperhaps in the generation that comes after the current one and with an unimaginable graphic section, meet again with that zombie turning his face towards us from a third-person perspective more photorealistic than ever.