RESIDENT EVIL : Operation Raccoon City Unveiled

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MysticOracle

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YET MORE RESIDENT EVIL COMING SOON!

Developed by Slant-Six (former developer of Socom), Operation Raccoon City has finally been confirmed; will be a team-based shooter. PS3 and Xbox 360 are the confirmed consoles. More info will be released in the May issue of the Official Xbox Magazine. Here are the details given so far:

-The game takes place in 1998, a time where Resident Evil fans already know what's set to take place. The title lets you enjoy the series from a new perspective, as the men and women who are technically responsible for it all.

-Rather than continuing the zombie slaying antics of BSAA agents, you're taken back to the original outbreak "that underscored both Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis."

-The game doesn't require any crazy amounts of knowledge of the past titles or characters involved in the series. The title opens up to a "quartet of new faces". Essentially, you're playing as members of the official Umbrella Security Services squad.

-Operation Raccoon City is a team-based shooter allowing four members of the USS team to destroy all evidence of the ongoing outbreak. Along with slaying the zombies, you're looking to "kill pretty much every survivor possible".

-The gameplay is described as "dirty", and the series will feel much darker than it has up to this point.

-The game features three factions that Capcom has stated make up a "three-corner conflict". The other two factions are the US Spec Ops, who are there to repel the USS, and the "bio-organic weapon monsters (BOWs) created by Umbrella.

-The USS team is made up of the following characters: Vector, Beltway, Bertha, and Spectre. Depending on which character you choose, the responsibilities that you're asked to do within your team will variate.

-Hunk, first seen in Resident Evil 2 as a hidden character, is the inspiration behind the USS team.

-"Whichever team you play on, you'll be facing Umbrella-created horrors in between skirmishes with each other".

-Zombies in the game can sense you in three different manners: sight, sound, and smell.

-A situation is described in the game where Vector cloaks himself to stir up previously slumbering zombies to use against the Special Ops military foes.

-Quite a few scenarios in the game aren't "all about headshots". A quote in the article states, "It's about shooting the other soldiers - manipulating the, making them bleed."

-The game will take you through a number of familiar areas if you're a Resident Evil junkie who remembers your journey to Raccoon City.

-Operation Raccoon City, depending on how you play the game, will give you the option to "change the history of Resident Evil". Not only will you have the chance to meet and interact with various characters from the series, but you'll even have the opportunity to kill them.

-One of the mottos repeated to OXM throughout the demo was "Kill Leon". It's also stated that if you choose to represent in the game as the Special Ops team, that you'd more than likely have the goal of trying to save Leon Kennedy.


-Slant Six or Capcom won't reveal if any other characters will be playable in the title just yet, but it'd make sense to see quite a few big cameos.

-The title will still see players relying on collecting herbs to heal from any attacks you may suffer. You won't need to hoard any herbs, but they'll still benefit you to collect them throughout the game.

-"This is not a one-versus-one game where you've got one clip full of ammo and zombies on you. If you've ever thought of those times in an RE game when you thought, 'I'd wish I had a big gun', that's what this game is. It's not fair to give people big guns, then take all the ammo away."

-One of the pictures in the article showcases a zombie being used as a "meatshield".

-Operation Raccoon City allows players to earn XP for kills, with these points helping you survive the onslaught, and to help to encourage you to anihilate everything in your path.

-The XP will allow you to earn new abilities, such as Vector's cloaking skill, and new weapons.

-Tyrants will most definitely be included in the title.

Source:http://tinyurl.com/6bq3qlv
 

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This sounds promising, I've been preferring the more action oriented gameplay rather than the survival/horror tank controls of the past.
 
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Resident Evil doesn't do Survival Horror well anyways, you get several guns and loads of ammunition through out the game, is that really survival?

In the old Silent Hills you get a fuckin flashlight and stick...
 

MysticOracle

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Achivement unlocked: You are a god!

I guess you could make it survival if you didn't pick up the guns, its hard to miss them though.
i wish we had achievements/trophies back then


the RE series was amazing to me then, used to get so high and play that shit in the dark lol...beat them so many times we had to come up with different challenges for them, the knife was by far the hardest thing ever...it started with doing certain areas/events with it and then finally graduating to playing the entire game with the knife alone..

a real accomplishment would have been if you could do it without dying lol or even taking damage