Takeuchi: Resident Evil 6 will reboot the franchise

Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi has recently revealed, however, that the series is in store for franchise reboot. Resident Evil 5 seems as if it's practically guaranteed to be the last of its kind, and just as Resident Evil 4 reinvented the franchise, it seems Resident Evil 6 is slated to do the same.

[shadowfox]

I'm kinda neutral on this... on the one hand, I like how Resident Evil 4/5 play. But on the other, I also don't feel like they are traditional Resident Evil games. Hopefully Capcom branches out the series and have games with both types of gameplay.

[GWAVE]

It kinda worries me when the developer is basically saying "Hey guys. RE5 is same old. It will be the NEXT game which pushes things forward". It doesn't help that I found the demo to be rather boring.

[Maxned]

going in the FPS direction.

[DominusRebellis]

I'm mixed on it too. I love RE, it's my favourite series but I will be honest: Co-op destroys what the original RE's have established, plain and simple! I want the old school back and I hope RE5 doesn't spawn another terrible movie...cough cough RE2 extinction cough cough...sigh

[Sarcasm]

I beg the question, why didn't they just "reboot" the franchise with RE5? They had more than enough time.

[Powertesties]

I hope this simply means that they will be going back to what started this franchise. ZOMBIES.

The series has gone on this weird human looking/acting crazies that split open and sprout weird limbs.

Go back to the zombies, go scary and no one will care if the controls are sh*t like they are now....ok, just don't make them any worse. haha

[Flipgeneral]

Translation: you will be able to shoot while moving. We're still going to keep the same character animations though!!!

[himdeel]

...because RE5 isn't even out yet. I was definitely considering RE5 as a new purchase sometime this year but I'm leaning more towards a used copy now.

I kind of feel like they're just taking my money for RE5 if they are already saying they'll do more with number 6 :/ I'm confused...buying RE5 makes me an investor in RE6?

[gauntletpython]

Sounds scary... the Resident Evil 4 reboot worked because they had a masterful game designer in Shinji Mikami behind it. Don't get me wrong, Jun is a great game designer too, but I'm fearful as to what it could become.

[Th3 Chr0nic]

ok hearing the dev talk about this even before RE5 has been released makes me think it would be a waste of time to even bother with part 5. good job jun now i can spend my money on something else...maybe a game that isnt getting the cold shoulder before it is even released.

[gauntletpython]

I dunno about going THAT far. I feel like RE5 is still gonna be good on it's own merits, the co-op is great! I just think Capcom realized they need to keep the series fresh, and bring it back to it's roots. PLEASE BRING ZOMBIES BACK!

[RememberThe357]

The games designer promotes his game, therefor it wont be good.

[nycredude]

They should have rebooted this franchise for RE5! Or at least just update the controls if you are going to go the action game route!

[interrergator]

i hope in resident evil 6 will be zombies i mean if wesker has the virus
then why not i mean i think its the last one kuz its comin to a close

[chidori666]

re need this... r4 is a crap game and no zombies... and r5 is same thing... sad this.

[NaiNaiNai]

none of the REs have zombies. NONE, a virus cased them all, zombies are living dead brought back to live threw natural means, not bioterrorism.
-nai-

@below, still BIO-T, not natural causes. they are just reanimated corpes, not zombies, the only thing that links them to zombies is the fact of them eating flesh.
-nai-

[Foxgod]

Well, they where still walking corpses, because if you read the books in Re1 from the book cases, you would know that the virus caused corpses to reanimate, after the infected person died.

They didnt become parasite controlled freaks as in Re4/5

[Snoogins]

(Enter nerd mode.) Actually, the mindless walking corpses of the early Resident Evil games are in fact zombies by the textbook and traditional sense. George A. Romero created the genre and while we're still unclear of the origins or cause of the zombie phenomenon, not once did an already dead corpse come back to life, only the infected (by fluid transfers such as blood or saliva, or scratched), or the recently-deceased (adding more to the mystery of the cause). Romero's framework carried over to other popular zombie films as well as books by Max Brooks (World War Z, Zombie Survival Guide). So, Capcom decided to take a liberty and say a synthesized virus was the cause, doesn't change the fact they are zombies (RE4/5 not applicable).

As for the topic, I was not pleased by the demo or the absense of Mikami, and taking into account the very short playtime (approx. 6 hours), I can see why you'd assume it's a waste. Now if I can only convince my girlfriend not to buy it so we can get SFIV instead. LOL

[sinny]

Knowing Takeuchi the next RE will be just like left4dead in third person....
RE will miss Shinji Mikami :( , thank god for platinum games.

[Bnet343]

First helghan666 and now you. Why the hell is everyone talking like a 3rd grader? Oh yeah ...

[farhsa2008]

i dont like the sound of that as a big RE4 and RE5 fan although i know many will be happy to hear this

[Foxgod]

Well, eventually its time to move on.
I myself didnt really like the jump from virus infected undeads to parasite infected undeads.

To me they just didnt feel like old fashioned zombie's anymore, so i understand what you mean.

[Darrius Cole]

My problem is that the parasite infected undeads in RE4 and RE5, don't appear to be undead. They show anger. A zombie doesn't show any emotion other than maybe hunger.

Umbrella Corp. and Zombies are what made the RE series great. They should never have changed away from it.

Never forget, you best shot at getting some is from the girl you brought to the dance.

[onomix]

Those who whine, suck at games. Go play you're Pokemon on Gameboy advance.
These kind of games are for hardcore players who want some challenge.

EDIT: 4 DISAGREES? WOW, I was being sarcastic. People at N4G lacks HUMOR.

[kickaski]

you want people to agree with your sarcasm?

[Foxgod]

Hopefully a return to normal zombies, but in a different setup then the original resident evils.

E.g instead of a mansion with undeads that got infected by a virus, they could go more of the classic zombie way.

Or better said, Jr Romero horror zombie style.
I am curious what they will do tho, they cant go the zombie as biological super soldier way.
As that is already done in Dead rising, And re 4 and 5 have parasites, and the original Resident evils are about viruses.

Oh and mechanical cyber zombies are a big NO NO, all the quake fans in the world would burn down RE. :D

Curious what Capcom can come up with

[LarVanian]

-A return to Racoon City (Would love to see it in HD)
-Being able to move while shooting
-The return of zombies
-Zombies sprinting directly at you (Like the grims in Resistance 2)
-The return of Survival Horror in Resident Evil

[NaiNaiNai]

truth, THEY WERE NEVER ZOMBIES. mutants just like the las plages, which the las plages are what started the who'll thing to begin with.
-nai-

[beavis4play]

bubbles for you.

[NaiNaiNai]

oh god yes, i will have my piss poor controls back and bad camera angles so i can't see my zombies. YEAH T_T. *if you can't detect the BS in that statement, please leave*

the games are better then ever. if the series need to be fixed, they wouldn't have the sells they do, it wouldn't have sold well on the gamecube, or be a best seller on the ps2. the games fine, just whiny fanboys because they can't user there ink ribbons anymore.
-nai-

*lets compair the classic OUTBREAK to RE 4 sells, hmmm, the newer version fanboys seem to hate sells better, why its a better game.*

@below

then go back and play the old games, cause it doesn't look like its going to change, since the games are actually better then before. alot better.
-nai-

[Foxgod]

the controls are indeed good, they shouldnt thinker to much with that.
It would be nice if the return the investigating from the old resident evils.

And this time go for gory zombies =D

[beavis4play]

really, you're sounding like a whiner right now.
many people (who came into the series from the beginning) enjoyed the "survival horror" aspect. i liked it better than "survival action". although, i did enjoy RE4; RE5 looks to be a step back. it's pretty, but the "feel" of the game seems to lean towards action rather than horror........and that's too bad.

[Snoogins]

I'm one of those people you mentioned who've been with the series from the beginning and the original Resident Evil is what got me into survival horror (until my torrid love affair with Silent Hill, which thanks to American hands, has been raped of its former beauty). Honestly, and I may be in the minority here, I felt RE2 was a step in the wrong direction. The series continued to lose touch with its mysterious and frightful Voice present in the first game, and while RE4 rejuvinated the gameplay, it still lacked that uneasy feeling I got from the original. RE5, much like the movies, looks to be a huge step back for the series, which is a disappointment as I was looking forward to RE5 after playing RE4. There is a lot of tension in RE5 (thanks to the awkward controls and real-time inventory system), but none from the need to survive. I'm just not one for the Westernized "Survival Action" approach.

[Sharpshell]

I don't get why people complain about old resident evil controls... I never thought twice about them and if its those controls that will make hte franchise scary and mysterious again then I am all for it. Also for hte record the camera angles were the best part of re1 and what I miss the most! Well no I miss the puzzles hte most but the camera angles I guess second. the new games are good too, but different not beter, and more appealing to the modern audience but I hope the revamp will be a more thoughtful, scary, SURVIVAL HORROR gmae liek the old ones and a revamp which brings back the roots of the series. Hope springs eternal.

@ Snoogins I completely agree dude, I was the same way playing and loving RE1 from pretty much the day it was released, although I actualy loved re3 (code veronica was interesting but really weird) but nothing NOTHING beats the original, terrible voice acting and all. Back then gamers didn't demand as much to enjoy a game i guess, bubbles for you for remebering the good old days that so many people disregard as the clamor for every game to become a hemoginized verizon o itself untill all games are basically indistinguishable.

[Kushan]

Call me crazy, but I'd welcome a "reboot" back to the series' routes, where the focus was more on survival and puzzle solving than mowing down hundreds of "zombies". Don't get me wrong, I LOVED RE4 and I'll be getting RE5 the second I can lay my grubby mits on it, but I've been a fan of RE since the very first game and I kind of miss it. Even the tank controls.

Now, Capcom, how about you stop Remaking RE1 for every platform under the sun and give RE2 the next-gen remake it truly deserves.

[Foxgod]

same here, what made RE so great was its diversity, with RE4 it became too action focused.
Maybe they can go puzzle style again, and go for splatter zombies this time :P

Lots of gore and nasty zombies, instead of the hardly zombified aggressors we had the past 2 games.

[beavis4play]

i want settings like the police station in RE2, and the lab/mansion in RE1. and whatever happened to heads exploding like pumpkins when hit by a shotgun?

come on capcom, you know what we want.........give it to us!

[Sharpshell]

I liked the old controls personally, allowed great camera angles and made for some scary zombie encounters. YOu have to apreciate that in the old games the slow lumbering zombies could be so terrifying while i find the las plagas not even a little scary

[Horny Melon]

RE hasn't been quality since 2. This includes the survivor, and online games. RE4 and RE5 are not even survival horror. They are twitch TPS with crappy controls.

[NaiNaiNai]

yes RE 1/2 were great, bad camera angles, poor movement, even wrose control schemes add that to the fact you had limited items, had to carry a ink ribbon to save, and oh let me say this one again, YOU CAN"T SEE ZOMBIES AROUND CORNERS EVEN IF YOUR LOOKING THAT WAY....yep great game. = pile of CRAP.
-nai-

*im sorry i prefer worrying then being scared. scared does nothing after the first few times, worrying about crap theres alot of "zombies" how to kill them all how to run away. more realistic then a slow bastard walking like "eeeeeeehhhhhhhhh" to me,
-nai-

[Foxgod]

the idea was the scare factor, thats why you didnt see the zombies all the time.

Just like when you ran trough the hallway and zombie dogs jumped trough the window, that scared the f out of everybody.

[LTC]

Is make it PS3 exclusive.

[solsub]

Open Zone -->

[incogneato]

good because resident evil 5 feels really crappy and last gen.

i hope they make it more like RE1 and RE2. those were epic

[kydrice]

Though RE1 and RE2 were awesome, your comment makes no sense. "Yea sure RE5 feels "last gen" but hey let's make the next game feel new by making it even more old by making it last last last gen." They just need to bring back the zombies, the lickers, the hunters, stick us back into a dark dampy city and not make the controls and cameras suck as much.

[Gamer_Z]

bring back zombies!!!

[onomix]

If they were smart enough, they would not have disagreed. How can you take a person seriously when he says:

''Go play you're Pokemon on Gameboy advance''.

Seriously, I have been sarcastic all day long, and people have not noticed it yet. I have posted crap all day long about PS3, but I really did not mean it.

EDIT2: I still see people disagreeing at my posts. Do you do that to annoy me? Because you fail epically if you do.

[Arsenic13]

Thats because there really are people on this site stupid and arrogant enough to say stuff like that.
I actually dont mind the controls (Not Sarcasm)

[bigboss911]

Yeah so remakes of old games are cool. But I dont want to play the same game, with the same story in ten different remakes. The past is past. I play Re2 all the time. Would a remake on ps3 be awesome? damn right it would. But ten years from now you people would want another and another.... It was good in 1998, so why not play the 98 version? Also Re's story has to progress. Going back to Raccoon would do nothing for the series. You go there and the streets are cramped. Zombies are easy. Four to six shots. And you get out before the a-bomb kills your ass. Boring. Oh and the whole " not zombies they are parasites" uhhh yeah it talks about that during the first 3 games how the made it. Its also in Zero, C-veronica too. They went to africa found it, mixed in some good old ebola virus and leech dna. -Holy smokes Batman the T-virus?!!! Billy< from Zero, kills AFRICAN villagers so they going to execute him. It was going in this direction the WHOLE time. And scare factor.... after beating the old games 70 times, seeing a dog jump through a window isnt as scary. Plus there is no music in those areas in the games so u kinda expect something to go boo. Wait and actually beat the game when it comes out and hopefully we will have some answers. thank you for letting me rant lol

[kydrice]

While you're there Capcom, reboot the movies too. This time, please no more cyborg ninja clones.

[name]

Yay, another reinvention. Resident Evil 6 won't have zombies or mind controlled humans, it'll just be regular humans and they'll be TERRORISTS. Might as well just make it a military shooter 100% and get it over with.

[Mad_Rhetoric]

why wait till re6?

[Dimitri]

Haha reboot the franchise ?? With what ??
What are they going to think of now ??

Maybe robots which are taking over the world ??

[onomix]

I hope that Kojima will do a remake of Snatcher. He should do it, then many people can know the great storyline of Snatcher. Now that MGS series is done, and I'm delightful, please let it be a remake of snatcher.

[KKanjiAnkh]

Raccoon City was blown off the map.

[GVON]

I had a british gamecube mag called NGC,they had a little interview with him were he said he wasn't sure if the direction they finally went was they right one,he basically said people would get bored with it and it would need reworking again.

The problem Capcom have is fans want the real res back,but the reason 4 was made more action oriented was because they run out of ideas for the old style games.

[Darrius Cole]

Bubbles for you.

[Sty]

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[Rhezin]

if you seriously b!tch about controls then you shouldn't be playing games. Every game has a different control scheme, if they all had the same controls like gears of war or halo (which seems to be the trend now unfortunately) then it would be bland and would take the fun outta learning how to master those controls. THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT A LEARNING CURVE.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

run and gun will be the new introduction to the series for all those that b!tched about it in 5's demo. Sad thing is, now I feel this series is at a loss if this happens and I damn near gaurantee that the people that ripped apart 5 for not having run and gun, WON'T even be interested in 6 if it comes around... so whats the point of doing it?

I've been with the series since the 1st and all I wanted was zombies back... and now I want zombies AND umbrella back... this series is losing itself to people that haven't even been following the series, it's Capcom catering to those people... that is going to make them lose their original fanbase and RE will then become nothing but a faint memory!

[leftbehindxp]

we get to wait till, what, 2013?

[OhMyGandhi]

thank god.
Resident Evil 4 was an action game.
The resident evil franchise was about scary the f*ck out of you.

Hopefully they return to that formula instead of this "house of the dead: off rails edition" BS.

[buckethead_911]

Nice....I hope they bring back Raccoon City though

[DoctorXpro]

10 - Things I'd love to see in Resi 6
-A return to Racoon City (Would love to see it in HD)
-Being able to move while shooting
-The return of zombies
-Zombies sprinting directly at you (Like the grims in Resistance 2)
-The return of Survival Horror in Resident Evil

I hope Albert wesker dont die on RE5 is my favorite vilan.

[likeaboss302]

Dead Space controls please! This is from a life long RE fan.

[mmike855]

Resident Evil was a lonesome, scary solitary experience once, before the light gun games and the "reinvention" of the series with Resident Evil 4. What Capcom did wasn't reinvent Resident Evil, they made a new franchise, and called it RE:4. Resident Evil is an excellent series, but it is now a completely different animal, almost comical with its QTE's and ridiculously choreographed enemy entrances, and boiled down to an action game: with zombies. It seems Capcom is thinking "The more, the scarier!" Unfortunately, for any of us who wants a suspenseful, masterfully written and provocative survival horror game, a "white knuckle" experience doesn't mean we are shooting more zombies than we have rockets for, it means we are sweating in anticipation of what is scratching on the other side of the old cellar door.

[PS360PCROCKS]

Thank you Capcom, as I am very excited for co-op Resi evil. I want traditional back in the day crazy monsters and zombies jumping at you off ceilings and scaring the crap outta you. So if you want me to buy Resi evil 6 this is what I need:

*Zombies/Monsters and nothing else
*NO BUTTON PROMPTS!! Please? :)
*Move slowly while shooting
*All new character movements, realistic motion cap which leads me into... think KZ2 animations which are ridiculously awesome.
*That god awful knife to be useful and not look retarded doing it
*New moves, be able to grab zombies and throw them through walls, kick them, punch them, throw them through windows, you're trying to not die remember? You'll do anything.
*DARK corridors, not light, all new settings, maybe a forest, trapped in a house?
*Creative weapons, chainsaws, garden hoes etc. Make the game less about guns and truly make it scary by making EVERYTHING a weapon like Dead Rising, just not goofy stuff like a steaming skillet lol
*Cut down on Ammo big time and no more sidekicks, you're alone, trapped, trying to be killed by mutated animals and Zombies.
*Oh yeah and Zombies have the ability to sprint directly at you and attack you without stopping.

[GFahim]

if u wanna reboot the franchise, then at least make it for the wii with motion plus ir controls etc