Slant Six: "we're not changing the Resident Evil storyline"
Friday 8-Apr-2011 10:44 AM Operation Raccoon City will "retell it from a different point of view"
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will "intersect" with the events of Capcom classic Resident Evil 2 without altering key plot points, according to Slant Six Games creative director Adam Boyd.
"The basic idea for this game is we're really attaching a group of characters to Resident Evil sort of 15 years after the fact," Boyd explained to a worried Mike Channell at a preview event.
"So what was really important was that they feel like Resident Evil characters, and because they're going to intersect with the events of the original outbreak, they're going to meet those original heroes and villains, we wanted them to feel like they belonged there, and like they were a natural part of the Resident Evil universe."
The new game puts players in charge of an Umbrella Corporation Secret Service unit, tasked with bumping off the survivors of a T-virus outbreak. Among the names on Umbrella's hit list is Leon Kennedy, star of the second and fourth numbered Resident Evil titles.
"We're not changing the Resident Evil canon, we're not changing the Resident Evil storyline," Boyd insisted.
"We're trying to intersect with it, at those moments where maybe those characters weren't on screen, or like for instance in some of the games you play Claire [Redfield], and then you play Leon, so in a lot of cases, this is what happened to Leon while you were playing Claire.
"We're not trying to change the characters, more it's a fan service. You should run into them and go 'oh, that's where Leon was', or 'that's what happened here'.
"So this is an addition to the storyline, and there are some salacious details, some things that you didn't know happened that you'll find interesting, but we're not changing the storyline, we're working in with it.
"Capcom has retold the story of the outbreak a number of different times, and we're retelling it from a different point of view."
Confirmation, then, that Operation Raccoon City will not let you gun down Leon, despite Capcom's suggestions to that effect? We're a little stumped, to be honest.
For more on the subject, check out the preview in
Issue 72.