New Resident Evil 6 Information Shuffles Onto the Scene
The announcement of Resident Evil 6 sort of crept up on all of us and, like a zombified doberman vaulting through a window, took us by surprise. After seeing a legion of Resident Evil titles indiscriminately crammed into 2011 and 2012,  a main entry into the series will surely serve to melt the collective minds of gamers everywhere.
With a mere 9 months left for Resident Evil 6 to gestate, Capcom has gone gungho, firing off an unyielding barrage of new and exciting information. Today we were treated to a slew of material concerning the cast, the setting, the enemies and a couple of gameplay changes. Pull up a chair and allow me to give you the lowdown.
If you’ve seen the trailer, you have probably deduced that the game will take place somewhere in China. If you’re the type of person who is into specifics, you can now run out and tell your friends ,who aren’t quite as obsessive as you are, that the game will be set in a fictitious coastal town called Lanshiang sometime in 2013.
Also, if you’ve already seen the trailer, you have noticed a combination of strange and familiar faces alike. Intrigued? Capcom has been kind enough to release the following biographies on the protagonists to help whet your appetite.
Leon S. Kennedy:
Following the Raccoon City incident, Leon was recruited as a US government agent by none other than Adam Benford, who would later become the President of the United States. Ever since the nightmare that was Raccoon City Leon has made it his life’s work to eradicate bioterrorism.
Helena Harper:
Like Leon, she is also a government agent, but was in the process of transferring to the Secret Service to become one of the President’s personal bodyguards. In the announcement trailer it is Helena who admits to Leon that she is the one responsible for this incident.
Chris Redfield:
The ex-S.T.A.R.S member who continued the fight against bioterrorism as the leader of the BSAA underwent a personal trauma some six months prior to the events depicted in RE6. In spite of this he has rejoined his BSAA colleagues in China to uncover a major bioterrorist attack.
The mysterious third protagonist:
We’re still trying to track down his real identity but we do know this man is a mercenary currently engaged in a bloody conflict in Eastern Europe where reports confirm that B.O.W.s are increasingly being used. One day, he’s told that he is the man to save the world. Whilst he doesn’t understand the implications of this, he does immediately think how much money he can make from it.
Ingrid Hunnigan:
A member of Field Operations Support (FOS), Ingrid has been working with Leon for a long time, and they share a mutual trust.
Adam Benford:
President of the United States and the man who hired Leon after the Raccoon City incident.
So Capcom is clearly mixing a lot of new with the old. Gamers will be glad to know that Capcom plans on returning to the more traditional zombies in this outing. Traditional in a cosmetic sense, anyway. These zombies will be running, jumping and wielding guns in order to eliminate our heroes.
Perhaps even more daring (and prone to outcry) is their decision to further tinker with the gameplay. With revamped mechanics, Resident Evil 6 will utilize an “evolved control system allowing players to shoot whilst moving; slide; roll in any direction and to take cover along with the addition of an enhanced melee attack.”
Players will be able to see how all these changes come together when Resident Evil 6 releases on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on the 20th of November, 2012.
