‘Resident Evil Requiem’ returned to the beginnings of Raccoon City

After the fortress identity crisis what i assume Resident Evil 6 (2012), Capcom was recruited in the winter months to completely replant France. The strategy they began to develop had two key points: on the one hand, new games heavily focused on visceral first-person terror, and on the other remodels ambitious classic titles with high production values.

In the last decade, not counting spin-off or aledaños experiments, They launched five titles that completely revitalized Francewhich elevated her to a level of commercial success never seen before. Now it’s my turn Requiemwhich tries to merge both themes into a single game using two points of view that complement each other in a story that revolves around the creation of Raccoon City and the villainous pharmaceutical corporation Umbrella.

Grace Ashcroft She is a young FBI analyst who is assigned to investigate an abandoned hotel in a city in the American Middle East. The mission carries a certain emotional culmination because it is the same stable base from which her mother was brutally abused years ago in her presence.

Among the first fish, Grace is tracked down by Victor Gideon and imprisoned at the Rhodes Hill Medical Center, an enclave protected and inhabited by all manner of biological monsters and experiments. At the same time, Agent Kennedy follows her trail in a race against time to suppress the infection that is on her body. Fall down one by one, you’ll discover a lane a plot that takes decades from the depths of Raccoon Citythe first major disaster of this new era of biological weapons.

After 30 years of new main titles and loads of spin-offs, It’s surprising that Capcom has engineered itself to maintain the relevance of its particular formula of terror and survival. After the previous two games focused on the plight of Ethan Winters and his quest to rebuild his family, Requiem it seeks a new beginning for the narrative by making connections with the original aspects of the plot.

The result of e.g a game of strong contrastsin all feelings. Grace is surrounded by a burdensome world, a mental state best exploited by a traumatic past and a terrible disposition to lay it against her heart. On the other hand, Leon, a veteran of a thousand battles who trained you for five years, matches the hordes of zombies with deadly efficiency, completing everything that is part of an arsenal as vast as it is unbeatable.

The difference from the campaigns of Resident Evil 6 (2012), which is discussed in parallel, the scenes of Grace and Leon intertwine with specific moments of the plot, and at specific moments we switch from one perspective to another. So the first half of the game is more focused on Grace and the second on Leon. Since I used to be a regular in the saga many years ago, this is exactly the first episode where Capcom’s designers put all the meat on the player in a simply excellent gameplay plan.

Rhodes Hill Medical Center takes us back to Spencer’s mansion, the commissary, or Baker’s hacienda, enclaves that have made it to the Olympus of terror games on their own merits. The map is complete, full of puzzles, truths and extreme situations; the beat is spectacular, every millimeter step to sing the sequences masterfully; and the audio visual presentation is simply amazing.

Conversely, the second story, in Raccoon City devastated by a nuclear fallout, is less interesting. The game switches sides, abandoning terror in favor of despondent actioncompletely arcade. Leon continues to gain zombie-like points and uses them as usual to obtain more powerful weapons, useful mods and raudale.

E.g. electricity ethos de Resident Evil 4 (2023) drawn to your maximum expression, Leon, who has completed his transformation into John Wick To inflict eternal punishment on an endless legion of zombies, the ancient inhabitants of Raccoon City, who have departed, walk in decay in the ruined precincts of the city center. The action mechanics are very clean and the situation changes, but it’s the plan that excels in the face of mastering the opening sequences.

Resident Evil Requiem It has everything needed to convert to another result which crosses the 10 million copies sold mark. Everything about Grace is honor matriculation, and even Leon Rayan’s high-level secciones, It is impossible to shake the feeling that the game is running out of gasarrastrándose until the final comparison as routine as forgettable. Grace abuses her tics and her jokes a bit, but she is an engaging character who continues to grow in the face of circumstances and overcomes the paralyzing feeling that would lead us to a final nervous breakdown.

The best narrative framework that, for all its structural completeness, ends with a simple story that nevertheless shows how much Capcom has improved in this new era. In the future, we encourage you to keep your perfection until the end credits. In the meantime, we’ll start another film adaptation in September, directed by Zach Creeger, which follows Barbarian (2022) Arms (2025) demonstrated the talent necessary to right this institution of video game terror.