More Great Capcom Tidbits
July 20th, 2007
Hey guys, not sure if you have read this or not. I actually posted this on the 20th of July but because we where switching servers it got deleted. 🙁 I know that it went thru my RSS reader, not sure about anyone elses, in anycase. Here it is:
Another excuse for me to post about Resident Evil 4? Well yes. I seriously didn’t expect all of these new details and videos to pop up so suddenly. But they have so by law I must blog about them.
To begin with Capcom has recently revealed their new 2D fighter based on the Devil Kings franchise. This game is heading for the PS2 and Wii. Great news, should sit nicely along side Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers. There’s not a lot more to say, you can check out some screenies and scans here.
The most important part of news is that new details have surfaced on Resident Evil 5 straight from the producers mouth. Overall they are actually pretty juicy. Lets run thru:
-the main character is Chris Redfield, he is working for a group called the BSAA and was sent to the area to research the recent events-the foes aren’t ganado or zombie-there is a big focus on one of the female characters from the series, we will find out more about her soon, she affects the story and gameplay
-producre thinks that if you think that RE5 looks like RE4 then by the next trailer, you would have a completely different impression of the game
-the gameplay is affected from moving between light and dark areas, this affects the vision as per real life
More details can be found here. So until the next trailer, I will hopefully leave RE5 alone for a while.
Resident Evil 5 PS3 Conference Trailer Breakdown
July 18th, 2007
After hearing that some footage of RE5 was at the Sony E3 Press conference I assumed that Capcom wouldn’t be generous enough to give us a new trailer different to the MS Conference trailer. Well it turns out that they did and finally separate video has surfaced of just the RE5 part of the conference.
So if you haven’t seen the clip then check it out without delay:
Now I am going to refer to many points made in my breakdown of the 360 conference video. So I suggest reading that before you delve into this post. This video is much shorter than the previous one and many points have already been covered. So there isn’t a whole lot to break down.
To begin with this trailer repeats a number of scenes from the previous trailer, including:
- the stage scene
- angry crowd scene
- the brief snippit of the claws growing
- the scene with the strange man being restrained
- the repeated scenes of the strange man’s eye’s turning red
- scene of strange man’s fingers growing
After the first 2 repeated scenes we see an almost top down view of the initial scenes in the 360 trailer. Being at the start of both trailers it seems that this must be one of the first areas in the village.
This time though Chris walks past the announcer from the previous trailer. Although it appears that he is wearing shorts this time. We also see him a few times throughout this trailer. There is also the two females from the previous trailer. After this scene a mob of villagers group up. So it appears that this guy may be the ring leader.
We see a brief scene where Chris is being attacked and then a shot of a group of villagers running out of a shed with weapons. This is the group of people whom pursue him. Later we see one of the villagers trying to break Chris’ arm, this pans out into a scene from the previous trailer.
What I realised here was that the crowd scenes from the previous trailer must be seperate from this incident that is going on. So perhaps those shots where part of the back story as when Chris came to the town the strange man had his bloodshot eyes and yet before this he was in the crowd.
There is also another scene with the flyswat man from the last trailer. He must be some sort of boss. We see him swinging his devastatingly large flyswat around. It also should be noted that the strange man couldn’t be the flyswat guy as they where both in the same scene at the start of the trailer.
This trailer finally reveals whom is restraining the strange man, it is the two villagers at the start. You can tell because of the clothing. Although you can hardly see the announcer(that is if the announcer is the villager at the start of the trailers in the green shirt) we can spot a patch of his pants which match up. We can also see that the lighting matches the scenes.
This also scene matches up these different shots, once again the lighting:
There is also a repeated glimpse of the strange man’s hands evolving. Another scene proves this as he feels a jolt in his fingers.
The most important part of the clip is the part where we see the scene of the strange man continue. Blood starts to weep from his eyes. This and the hand part must be effects of this new virus.
Dot Points
A few quick points, as I previously mentioned the villagers use that strange hook thing. Perhaps another weapon for climbing into buildings In that scene we see a quick peek at a different area.
One of the villagers tries to break Chris’ arm which might be another new gameplay mechanic. Did you also spot the other shot with Chris’ headset I’ll leave that one for you guys.
I hope these features have opened up the trailer a little bit for you. 🙂
Hidden Secrets/Clues in the Resident Evil 5 Trailer
July 11th, 2007
Earlier today Microsoft showed off a mountain of video of new games for the Xbox 360 at their E3 press conference. Arguably the most important trailer of the lot was the Resident Evil 5 one. It is such an important trailer as it provides a number of key clues to how the new game will work. Unfortunately it will probably be months before Capcom actually inform us of these tidbits. So I have gone through the trailer with a fine comb in order to hunt the down some juicy details. Here’s what I found:
Of course you will need to have seen the trailer first to understand what I am on about.
Chris has a Headset
While taking screen dumps of the quick burst of snippets I got this grab of Chris(not confirmed, but it makes sense) wearing a headset and there’s also a number of parts where you can notice his long knife or possibly sword. Also notice the STARS badge on his shoulder
Strange Man
During the clip you will notice the transformation of one of the villagers. He appears after the words resident evil flash on the screen. He is bound to a wall and enduring some sort of pain. His neck is forced back by a mysterious someone or something. There is a close up on one of his eyes which is frantically looking around.
The next scene of him also contains Chris Redfield. He is looking down away from the light. There is a sequence afterwards where he is looking up at the mysterious shadow. His skin looks noticeably worse this time and you can notice his eyes beginning to turn red. Just before this sequence we see him in the crowd shaking his fist in the air.
In the final blast of snippets we first see a very quick blink of the man’s arms and face becoming even more deformed. There is also a repeated scene of his neutral eyes midway through the snippet.
Shadowy Man
In the sequences where the Strange Man begins to mutate we notice a strange shadowy figure who is likely to be causing the strange transformation. Notice the disproportion in the arms When he’s is holding the Strange Man down we can notice his greenish hairy arm. This is a similar tone to the Strange Man’s final skin tone.
Megaphone Man/Announer
Notice the two men conversing at the beginning of the trailer The man on the left in the green shirt appears to be the same person whom is talking to the crowd with the megaphone.
Although it is hard to tell if he is also the Strange Man. The announcer is on stage while the Strange Man is in the crowd, so it isn’t possible. But they bear such a similarity that it is worth mentioning, just incase:
His shirt is the same, being an open button neck shirt but the pattern is different. The Strange Man has a chequered/stripped pattern yet the announcer’s shirt has no pattern. This could be due to a patterned skin dis figuration that can be seen through the shirt. Also the Strange Man had an claw like bald spot on his shaven head and in the shot of the announcer we cannot tell if he has the bald spot. He is also wearing sunglasses.
There is also a creature standing behind the Megaphone Man. I say creature as the face is very deformed and I cannot distinguish any normal facial features. This character is also holding something that looks like a giant fly swat made out of wire and mesh. He or a similar character appears in the following scene.
Red Eyes
The trailer seems to encompass a general theme related to eyes. As I already mentioned we notice that the Strange Man’s eyes begin to turn red, this could be part of a plague to hit the village(like RE4). The close up shot of his eyes strengthen this argument. Also Chris (once again) covers his eyes from the bright sunlight(he did this in the original trailer), this could be a slight clue to fit in with the theme.
The most interesting point though is that the announcer is wearing sunglasses. If the announcer is in actual fact the Strange Man with the virus then he is probably wearing the sun glasses in order to hide his mutation from the crowd. Also in the scene with Chris he is facing away from the light.
There also seem to be other hints of the colour red, in the resident evil flash and also in the 5 logo. I believe that the volcanic red is related to the eyes changing colour. The outflow of red is meant to represent the disease spreading through the veins.
Crowd Scene
The villagers in the crowd scene seem to be on some sort of revolt being lead by the announcer. The villagers are carrying sickles and jumping around. So some sort of fuss is going on. We get to see a shot of the stage where the announcer is standing, this reveals a silhouette of someone being hung upside down. If you look to the left you notice more people lined up. This is obviously what all the fuss is about. Once again we see the announcer and his minion in this shot.
We also get a glimpse of the villagers kicking Chris around and later on in the snippets we seem them trying to attack him with their sickles. Although Chris must survive this as afterwards he is standing infront of the stage. Here’s a few shots to show the layout of this area.
You probably also would have noticed the slightly inhuman look to the villagers as well. Perhaps they have already taken in some form of the disease
Similarities with Resident Evil 4
- based around a small village that looks somewhat nonhuman
- Chris has a knife slung around his back, similar to Leon
- the flow of the trailer goes from tranquillity to distress as does RE4’s story
- there appears to be some sort of plague
- animals locate the village
What does this all mean
This could mean a lot of things. I have a personal hypothesis that I’d like to share, basically I have attempted to piece together all of the previous points:
It seems like Chris Redfield(we can tell by the badge, look, its so obvious) is on a mission in this new environment(Middle East or Africa) in order to find out more about this virus. We know that he is probably working for STARs. There appears to be some sort of virus in this town, this mutates the body and gives you red eyes. The people in the town discover this and decide to hang all of the victims. This is led on buy the green shirted male. I’m absolutely stomped on the minion creature with him, no idea.
I reckon that this new virus is a cross between the Plagus and T-virus as the baddies in the original trailer moved faster than zombies. Perhaps this concoction was created by Umbrella/Wesker and tested on this village. Just like Leon Chris somehow is given the virus and has to avoid looking at the sunlight etc etc.
Well that’s my take on it. I hope that you gained something out of these ideas. If you liked the article then why not digg it I don’t use digg very much but these tidbits are pretty useful, so help me spread the word.
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