Our colleague Imran Khan, former editor-in-chief of Game Informer, is not at his first indiscretions validated a few months later by official means. It is to him, for example, that we owe the confirmation of the existence of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, of which he reported the upset development, and which was announced during the last Nintendo Direct. This time, he focused on the case of remake of Resident Evil 4 and still prefers to warn in the preamble of the article he devoted to him: ” All information is provided by Fanbyte sources, which we hope are trustworthy and accurate. As always, things change in the middle of development and information may be out of date for different people, but the report presented below is to the best of our knowledge. This includes multiple checks but no official validation from Capcom. »
Concordant rumours, prior to the revelations of our colleague, report that the development of this remake would have started during the last moments of that of Resident Evil 2. And the sources of the Fanbyte journalist have indeed confirmed this story, even specifying that Capcom should officially announce the existence of the project during the course of this year. But, originally, the project was apparently in the sole hands of the M-Two studio, a studio founded by the former brother-in-arms of Shinji Mikami and president of PlatinumGames until 2016, Tatsuya Minami. Capcom’s objective would have been, still according to our colleague’s sources, to push Shinji Mikami to join his old friend at the head of the project – the M-Two studio having moreover been baptized thus by Minami in the hope that Mikami joins him afterwards. But the meeting of the two Ms never took place and Mikami would have preferred to devote himself to Tango Gameworks, as a recent interview with the person concerned confirmed.
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M-Two is the studio responsible for the remake of Resident Evil 3. However, the mixed reactions about the latter would have caused M-Two to see the project withdrawn, now entrusted to the internal team of Capcom at the origin of Resident Evil 2 (Remake), as we mentioned in January of last year. According to Imran Khan, M-Two would now only have a supporting role although all the work done by the studio was retained. Capcom would have taken the opportunity to influence the direction taken by the project: the objective would no longer be to achieve a strict recreation of the original game, but rather to bring it closer to what the publisher had unveiled of the latter during the Tokyo Game Show 2002 then during the Nintendo conference at E3 2003, namely a much more frightening and dark atmosphere. The sources of our colleague thus report that the game would now take place mainly at night.
In terms of the changes brought about by this remake, there are also much larger secondary roles in the story. Our colleague evokes for example the case of Ada Wong. In the original game, it was only entitled to a fairly superficial chapter. The following reissues – on PlayStation 2 in particular – offered the famous double agent an already more substantial story, subtitled Separate Ways. In this remake, the idea would be to further develop this approach, but the journalist’s sources cannot confirm whether Ada’s adventure will be included in the game or offered later as DLC. Nevertheless, ” most claimed it was a fairly significant expansion of the source material “says our colleague.
Finally, Imran Khan suggests that Capcom would aim to announce the game at the beginning of this year, very soon. Obviously, this assertion must be taken with tweezers, as the person concerned reminds us: “ This timeline could be pushed back, especially since the company has had some success with shorter announcement and release cycles with the Resident Evil series. “.
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