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Resident Evil Showcase: Winters' expansion, third-person mode and upcoming PS VR 2 features detailed
During Capcom's presentation, all the details related to the upcoming RE Village expansion and the features it will receive in the future were shown.
As promised by Capcom a few days ago, we have seen what's new for Resident Evil Village. Although some of the upcoming updates had already been revealed to us previously, several details were given about the future of this title.
The Winter’s legacy lives on
A new trailer showed a glimpse of Winters' Expansion, the upcoming DLC for Resident Evil Village. In this one, besides having more aspects of the first-person mode, we see a little more about 16-year-old Rose and what makes her come back and face her fears. Taking place in the future, the trailer shows Rose visiting Ethan's grave and returning to the origin of her misfortune to get rid of her powers.
Kento Kinoshita, director of the expansion, gave more details about this expansion, its story and what one can expect. The first thing he seeks to explore with this expansion is what kind of person is a 16-year-old Rose? This, with the idea of her returning to the village to get rid of her powers, although this will take her to a world of Nightmares. The fear in this installment comes right from the nightmares and bad memories are the core of the memories that we will face.
Balanced Mercenaries
As for the Mercenaries mode, Kinoshita said he looked for characters that would be interesting for people who don't play the mode. This led to the integration of characters called lords, which allow them to have abilities and attacks that a normal human wouldn't do, and that turn out to be more fun. As for enemies, players won’t have to wait so much this time, with the intention of this to have a good tempo and be fun.
A Change of Perspective
Playing a first-person horror game can be "incredibly scary" or even make players feel motion sickness with this perspective, so these factors were taken into account to create a mode that could be enjoyed to the fullest by players. While Kinoshita says he doesn't consider the third-person experience as scary, he does mention that it can be an excellent way for players to return to the title as a game as well as an experience. With this, it was announced that there will be a 60-minute demo of this perspective available starting today at 16:00 PDT.
A virtual perspective
To conclude, Kenjo Akiyama, senior director of technology at Sony talked about the benefits that the game will have when the PS VR2 arrives. He mentioned that the RE7 mode was well received and is expected to improve this experience in every way, from the visual improvement with 4K and HDR to show the "beautiful and bizarre world of Resident Evil Village", to take advantage of the improved audio with the Tempest 3D Audio. It will also have more intuitive control thanks to the new PS VR sense controllers, making you feel the feel of the weapons.
As previously announced, Resident Evil Village, Winters' Expansion will arrive on October 28 for PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC.