The director of Resident Evil Requiem says the choice to change to a third-person viewpoint was added as a result of gamers discovered the first-person view in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard too scary.
When Resident Evil 7 was launched again in 2017, the sport ditched the third-person view from Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6 and as an alternative switched to a first-person viewpoint for the primary time in the primary sequence.
Resident Evil 7 was directed by Koshi Nakanishi, and whereas he didn’t work on the eighth recreation Resident Evil Village (which additionally launched with a first-person viewpoint as default), he has returned to direct the upcoming ninth instalment Resident Evil Requiem.
Regardless of beforehand being the person in command of Resident Evil’s swap to first-person, nonetheless, this time Nakanishi has added the choice to play in both first- or third-person viewpoints.
Talking to GamesRadar, Nakanishi defined that Requiem now provides gamers the selection as a result of some felt the first-person viewpoint in Resident Evil 7 was too scary and intense.
“Trying again at Resident Evil 7’s first particular person perspective, I applied that as a method to make it extra immersive and extra scary than ever earlier than, which I feel most media and gamers agreed it was an extremely scary recreation, however it was probably too scary,” he mentioned.
“I feel some individuals couldn’t deal with it, and both couldn’t end or didn’t even begin it. And that’s one thing that I look again on considering that, you realize, I need to ensure that individuals can get pleasure from this recreation.
“So when you began the sport off in first particular person perspective, and also you’re discovering it’s an excessive amount of, then third particular person is sort of a method to step barely again from that degree of horror and make it barely simpler to cope with by having the character on display screen as a form of avatar of your self.”
Resident Evil Requiem might be launched on February 27, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Collection X/S and PC.
The sport focuses on Grace Ashcroft, an FBI analyst investigating a sequence of mysterious deaths in Raccoon Metropolis, 30 years after it was bombed within the occasions of Resident Evil 3.
Based on director Nakanishi, in contrast to earlier Resident Evil protagonists Grace has little fight expertise, which implies gamers will watch her study and see her abilities develop as the sport progresses.
