Resident Evil Requiem Live-Action Trailer Provides a Fresh Look at Ruined Raccoon City

Capcom has published a live-action Resident Evil Requiem trailer that showcases our champion look yet astatine the ruins of Raccoon City, a fewer weeks earlier players get to research it for themselves.

The live-action abbreviated features Longlegs histrion Maika Monroe, who plays a parent surviving successful Raccoon City soon earlier its infamous zombie outbreak. Things sadly bash not extremity good for her (or her daughter) successful this three-minute abbreviated movie that is meant to acceptable the country up of Requiem's arrival.

Fans tin present find the abbreviated movie by scanning QR codes recovered connected viral selling appearing successful New York's Time Square and astir Hollywood. Alternatively, its YouTube nexus is present unrecorded and fans are sharing it astir societal media:

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The trailer features cops, dogs, and galore inheritance actors arsenic zombies. A wide changeable shows the immense crater near by the rocket onslaught astatine the extremity of Resident Evil 3, designed to yet neutralize the city's undead outbreak. At thoroughfare level, the metropolis subsequently looks post-apocalyptic, with burnt retired cars and part-collapsed skyscrapers arsenic acold arsenic the oculus tin see.

Fans are already discussing the trailer's end, which features 2 shadows moving past. Dialogue is past heard saying "That's the past of them, installation secured," and past "Copy that, Raccoon City is ours." These voices surely don't dependable similar Requiem's starring duo of Leon S. Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft, truthful who are they? And who has claimed the metropolis present — Umbrella?

Resident Evil fans person known for immoderate clip that they volition yet get to instrumentality to Raccoon City successful the series' upcoming Requiem, which is acceptable to tie-up long-gestating crippled threads related to the determination and to the shadowy Umbrella Corportation that person been dangling ever since the franchise's origins. An aboriginal trailer for Requiem featured a glimpse astatine the ruined city, and Leon's erstwhile Raccoon City Police Department headquarters.

How overmuch much volition we get to explore? With lone a fewer weeks to spell until launch, Capcom seems to person kept overmuch of Resident Evil Requiem nether wraps. That said, the game's manager precocious made a constituent of clearing up instrumentality speculation that the crippled volition beryllium unfastened world.

"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 successful our caller Resident Evil Requiem last preview. "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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