Resident Evil Requiem Producer Teases Characters 'Involved in the Raccoon City Incident' Are in the Game

Resident Evil Requiem volition diagnostic classical characters connected to the Raccoon City incident, Capcom has present acknowledged — portion stopping abbreviated of confirming precisely who.

Speculation is rife that floppy-haired fan-favorite Leon S. Kennedy volition beryllium backmost for Requiem, revisiting the metropolis wherever helium spent a fateful archetypal time arsenic a rookie constabulary serviceman backmost successful Resident Evil 2.

But, to date, Capcom has refused to sermon whether fans volition reconnect with immoderate acquainted faces successful Requiem, choosing alternatively to absorption its selling efforts connected caller protagonist Grace Ashcroft, girl of Resident Evil Outbreak's Alyssa Ashcroft.

Now, successful an interrogation with Well-Played, shaper Masato Kumazawa has yet confirmed that "yes, determination are going to beryllium immoderate characters from the past bid to travel in."

It's worthy stating that Kumazawa is responding present to a question which asked specifically whether different Outbreak characters, arsenic good arsenic Alyssa, volition amusement up successful Requiem. But Kumazawa does past spell connected to notation characters "involved successful the Raccoon City incident" mostly volition appear. Here's the afloat quote:

"I would accidental that yes, determination are going to beryllium immoderate characters from the past bid to travel in, but don’t over-expect oregon hype it," Kumazawa teased. "We can’t committedness you thing astir that, but the lone happening I tin accidental is that determination volition beryllium characters that person been progressive successful the Raccoon City incidental progressive successful the game."

The statement astir whether different characters — and specifically Leon — are successful Requiem has dominated treatment of the crippled to date, though Capcom seems blessed to support the speculation going. While focusing connected Grace Ashcroft successful trailers and aboriginal gameplay previews, the steadfast has ne'er explicitly stated that she is the sole playable character.

In a abstracted interrogation published online this week, Kumazawa branded a circumstantial instrumentality representation of Leon with an eyepatch arsenic "fake news," and suggested it was the enactment of AI. But again, the shaper stopped abbreviated of simply saying Leon isn't successful the crippled — which, astatine this point, you'd deliberation developers would simply authorities successful bid to negociate expectations.

Resident Evil Requiem launches connected February 27, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5, Switch 2 and Xbox Series X/S. There's inactive plentifulness of clip for much reveals.

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