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Resident Evil 8 is going to be making “serious departures” from other mainline entries in the series, as alleged by a new report from Video Games Chronicle.
Okay, so the little game is done. This will be breaking this month with more details later not by myself, but I've needed to clear some stuff up. "Resident Evil 2021" is Resident Evil 8, but it wasn't always RE8. During most of its development it existed as Revelations 3.
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) April 4, 2020
Let’s run through the rumours. First things first: Resident Evil 7’s protagonist will be returning in Resident Evil 8. The unflappable Ethan Winters will be stranded in a snowy village somewhere, and the game will keep using a first-person perspective, like its predecessor. “Serious departures” from the standard will be featured, too, like hallucinations and creatures based on legends like werewolves. “Occultism, insanity, and not being able to trust others are huge thematics of the game,” added industry insider Dusk Golem.
This Resident Evil 8 was originally meant to be a third game in the spin-off series, Revelations. However, Capcom was surprised by how well the project was received in testing. As a result, the company chose to spend “an additional year” on the game to turn it into a fully-fledged mainline Resident Evil entry. There are also rumblings that this game is to be cross-gen compatible.
Of course, Capcom has not acknowledged any of the above information about a possible Resident Evil 8, so we should still consider this to be speculation. While we wait twiddling our thumbs for a confirmation, we could tide ourselves over with the remade Resident Evil 3, which Josh rated rather highly. “If I could pair it with another game, for a draining double-feature, it would be The Last of Us. Think of the atmosphere in Naughty Dog’s game: guilt-stained and sombre, its characters bent under unbearable weight. To which Capcom provides the perfect ironic tonic: when the world will end in flames, we need a supercop,” he said.
Resident Evil 3 is out now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
