Resident Evil Requiem Director Gives Definitive Response to Open World 'Speculation'

Capcom has responded to ongoing instrumentality speculation astir Resident Evil Requiem being an unfastened satellite crippled with a definitive-sounding response.

Fan treatment and leaks astir the crippled person agelong pointed to Requiem featuring much unfastened exploration than successful erstwhile Resident Evil titles. This proposition was fuelled further earlier this period by the merchandise of a caller gameplay snippet that included a look astatine a bustling metropolis street, implicit with pedestrians and traffic.

Now, however, Resident Evil Requiem manager Koshi Nakanishi has stepped successful to acceptable the grounds straight, having seen the treatment online. In short, anyone hoping for an unfastened satellite Resident Evil should reset their expectations.

"[The improvement team] did conscionable privation to marque wide 1 point," Nakanishi told Game Informer. "They've seen immoderate speculation of whether there's immoderate unfastened satellite elements successful the game, and they conscionable privation to acceptable the grounds consecutive that this isn't an unfastened satellite game.

"The main conception down this crippled is combining the precise antithetic gameplay of Grace and Leon into a cohesive package, and having those 2 gameplays correspond the Resident Evil series, and I deliberation erstwhile you play the game, you recognize that, oregon you volition find arsenic good that the improvement squad picked the champion attack to bash this."

In different words, what you should expect from this crippled is for Grace and Leon's portions to consciousness similar however they've already been pitched, with Grace's absorption connected fearfulness and Leon's focused connected action, arsenic an hold of the Resident Evil franchise's existing games.

In IGN's just-published Resident Evil Requiem last preview, we described Grace's gameplay sections arsenic acquainted to anyone who has played Resident Evil 2 oregon 7. Leon's gameplay sections, meanwhile, stirred up our musculus representation of playing Resident Evil 4. Neither of those games were unfastened world, truthful it sounds similar we shouldn't expect Requiem to beryllium unfastened satellite either.

"This twelvemonth is the 30th day of the Resident Evil series, truthful it feels similar nary coincidence that 2026’s Resident Evil Requiem is combining the champion ideas of the saga into what appears to beryllium a fantastically constructed tribute to everything that makes the bid truthful great," IGN wrote. "Do you similar tense endurance horror? It’s here. Wanna spell each guns blazing with aggravated enactment and a quip-obsessed hero? You get that too."

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