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Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps (PC/PS4, $30, Unity 5, 2016), competetive MP shooter

PranooY

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Umbrella Corps First Official Trailer

Capcom announcement: http://www.capcom-unity.com/neilgortz/blog/2015/09/15/umbrella-corps-announced-at-tgs

Capcom said:
It’s been an exciting time lately for Resident Evil fans, and we’ve got yet another piece of exciting news for you. Announced today was Umbrella Corps, a fast-paced, third-person competitive shooter set in the RE universe. Compete online with other players in quick-and-dirty matches in compact battle zones modelled after historic RE environments.

Umbrella Corps will be coming digitally to PlayStation 4 and PC in North America and Europe in early 2016, for $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99.

The game will utilize the Unity engine developed by Unity Technologies
, which bears no relation to Capcom Unity, but we’ll try to leverage this coincidence for as many puns as possible.

Synopsis:

Umbrella Corporation, a ruthless international pharmaceutical company, had been known for its genetic experiments and biological weaponry that led to worldwide devastation including the infamous Raccoon City incident. Although the organization was brought down in 2003, its legacy of bio-terrorism continued. In the present day, corporations with nebulous interests in bio-weaponry have hired squads of special forces for experimental battles in restricted virus-infected areas against other mercenaries.

Gameplay:

Umbrella Corps will feature intense and quick team-based matches spanning a variety of unique online modes. One such mode (which is playable this week at TGS!) is the One Life Match mode. Players must take out the opposing team with one crucial catch: there’s no respawning. Every player gets one life per round and must not only face the other team, but also contend with other classic RE enemies that prowl the map.

Players will be equipped with an array of gun and grenade weaponry, as well as some less traditional gear: the “Brainer” (a powerful melee axe which goes straight into the skull), the Tactical Shield (an arm-mounted guard allowing players to utilize a zombie as cover), Terrain Spikes (boot-mounted spikes for trampling the enemy), and the Zombie Jammer (a device which repels zombies only when active).

The game’s analog aim and cover system, meanwhile, allows for precise control when using firearms behind cover. Look forward to more info over the coming months!

Screens:

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Reminds me of the late 00's when Japanese devs where trying to get super western and failing miserably.


What are you doing Capcom?
 

Markitron

Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I'll repeat what I said in the other thread.

This has killed off what little hope I have for RE7, Capcom have no idea what they are doing with the series.
 

kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Yup. Nothing to see here. Hopefully it'll be delayed until 2017 and then delayed until 2018.
 

Blackage

Member
"For the 20th anniversary we're going to release something as far removed from the source material as we possibly can!"

Kinda thankful the fighting games division is isolated from whatever suit/number cruncher authorized/approved this travesty.
 
So instead of taking RE6's mechanics and making a great new action IP with them, they double down on Resident Evil action-shooting with a competitive Umbrella Corps game once again saddling the mechanics with a game that doesn't fit.

Oh Capcom...
 

Eila

Member
Looks like they threw whatever little survival horror was left in the series, thankfully, RE0 and RE2 remake are still coming.
 

SolVanderlyn

Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I'm starting to think RE7 isn't a thing

RE2-r is though which makes up for that

This is already the buy for $5 on sale game
 

Zomba13

Member
"For the 20th anniversary we're going to release something as far removed from the source material as we possibly can!"

Kinda thankful the fighting games division is isolated from whatever suit/number cruncher authorized/approved this travesty.

Just wait. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary MOBA.
 

Markitron

Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I'm starting to think RE7 isn't a thing

RE2-r is though which makes up for that

If RE7 is a thing (which I think it is), then it's likely going to be just as bad as RE6. They want it to be an action series and are placating us with RE0 and RE2.
 

SolVanderlyn

Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
If RE7 is a thing (which I think it is), then it's likely going to be just as bad as RE6. They want it to be an action series and are placating us with RE0 and RE2.
RE6 was great, so, I hope you're right
 
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