After a fake-out earlier in Summer Game Fest on Friday, Resident Evil Requiem, or Resident Evil 9, was proven for the primary time.
The brand new title is the primary mainline entry since Capcom launched Resident Evil Village in 2021, and is rumored to characteristic sequence stalwart Leon Kennedy. Within the trailer, the one particular person we noticed was a personality named Grace Ashcroft, who works for the FBI and seems to have ties to Raccoon Metropolis.
For essentially the most hardcore Resident Evil followers, the title Ashcroft will ring a bell. Alyssa Ashcroft was one of many survivors of the online-only title, Resident Evil Outbreak for the PS2. Alyssa was a journalist who was trapped in Raccoon Metropolis throughout the occasions of Resident Evil 2, and she or he, together with different survivors, needed to escape the town earlier than it was destroyed.
Grace is Alyssa’s daughter, and within the trailer, she goes to go to the Remwood Lodge, the place Alyssa was murdered. Later within the trailer, photographs from what seems to be the remnants of a destroyed Raccoon Metropolis are proven, so it seems Resident Evil 9 will return to the place the sequence began.
Leon’s return is an enormous deal for the sequence, which has made a few of its best games with him within the starring (or co-starring) function. He first confirmed up as a rookie cop in Resident Evil 2, which constructed on the unique recreation’s success with extra story and improved monsters and degree design.
He confirmed up once more in Resident Evil 4, which took the sequence in a brand new course by introducing an over-the-shoulder perspective, as an alternative of the standard static digital camera angles and tank controls. Leon was additionally one in every of a number of playable protagonists in Resident Evil 6, a recreation that appeared to overlook about its survival horror roots. We largely do not discuss that one.
However the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 was a superb return to kind, bringing RE4’s gameplay and a lot better graphics to a fan-favorite entry. The RE4 remake was an identical success.
Resident Evil Requiem is about to drop Feb. 27, 2026, for PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection consoles, however we’re hoping to get our fingers on it this weekend. If you wish to compensate for older Resident Evil video games, Capcom is having a sale that features mainly all of the video games, together with Village and the three remakes.
