Meant to post this yesterday, too. Forgot about it.
Resident Evil:Umbrella Chronicles
http://wii.ign.com/articles/732/732520p1.html
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September 13, 2006 - In this week's Famitsu magazine, the publication revealed in their Wii section some mention about a new Biohazard game, entitled Biohazard: Umbrella Chronicles. Dubbed as an action game headed by Kawada Masachika, the man who was responsible for the PS2 port of Resident Evil 4, the game's story and characters have yet to be revealed, you can probably take a few guesses as to who's going to show up based on the title of the game.
The article reveals very little about the title, even to suggest that the game will somehow make use of the Wii's remote to manipulate your weapons. I suppose that's something. So far there has been little details about the game so far, and the screenshots that were included with Famitsu's preview make everything even more confusing; one screenshot depicts what seems like an old fashioned dining hall much like the one from the first Resident Evil game, as well as a door that's been blown to bits by some sort of weapon.
More information will most likely be available at the Tokyo Game Show next week, so keep checking back for updates soon!
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Some details about this game:
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Biohazard Wii indepth
Extensive information on the gameplay and content of RE:Wii has surfaced.
-The game consists of 4 "chapters", RE1's mansion, RE2's RPD, RE3's city areas and RE4's village (plus surrounding areas).
-Each chapter has 2 characters to choose from. RE1 has Jill and Chris, RE2 has Leon and Claire, RE3 has Jill and Carlos and RE4 has Leon and Ada.
-There are several characters that can be unlocked by playing through the game: Rebecca Chambers, Hunk and Albert Wesker.
-The gameplay of all chapters is designed around RE4's. Press the B trigger on the wiimote to go into over-the-shoulder view, aim with the pointer and press A to fire.
-The game will have QTEs, but rather than push buttons you have to make motions with the wiimote in order to get through them.
-All characters will have mêlée attacks, just like RE4.
-To encourage replayablility, each character has strengths and weaknesses, similar to how in RE4:Mercenaries Ada had the least health, Krauser was the slowest, etc.
-Just like in RE4:Mercenaries each character has a unique set of weapons. What's more players can only carry 2 weapons at any one time. Chris gets a pistol and shotgun whilst Jill gets a pistol and grenade launcher.
-You will be able to find several new weapons during each stage. For example, RE1 will have Richard's shotgun, RE2 will have the Desert Eagle, RE4 will have the Chicago Typewriter. There will also be new weapons like Krauser's anti-personnel robots.
-Similar to Devil May Cry 3, after each chapter you can save your data and any new weapons picked up will be available for use in Arcade Mode.
-Arcade Mode is like a giant Mercenaries minigame, where you pick a character and stage and blast through it. Building on the resounding success of Mercenaries seen when RE4 was released.
-Scenario mode will feature a large number of ingame cutscenes.
-New content not in the games that the chapters were based on will be added. The primary goal of this will be to link RE4 and Umbrella's status in it more closely with the rest of the series.
-Ammo conservation will play a part in the gameplay, so it's not just constant action like RE4.
-Trailer coming at TGS.
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Sounds great for RE fans! It will have RE 4 style game play mechanics, with shooting similar to it but enhanced with the Wiimote, and also have doses of action, melee attacks, and QTE style bits like RE 4, but will also mix in more elements from older RE games, such as ammo conservation and such.
Also, as the above states, there will be extra modes, one like the mercenary mode from RE 4, many playable characters, and it is good to see the man behind the PS2 version of RE 4 is behind this one. I'm sure he'll work with Shinji Mikami on some aspects, but Mikami will be most involved with RE 5. Another thing that is so cool about this RE is that it will go into more detail about the RE world and mythos, aspects of the main RE games, the Umbrella corp., and how Umbrella Corp. went under. Oh, and also, it is very cool how it will go about this by presenting to you scenes and events that took place with multiple characters throughout the main RE games. To RE fans, this is right up there with RE 5; its like, it isn't RE 5 itself, but it seems to be a really good spin off that is true to the main series, like how RE:Code Veronica was (this won't be another RE Dead Aim or RE Outbreak).