New Famitsu Images and Umbrella's Death

[Dot50Cal]

Yes but there was always the undertone that Umbrella was still functioning behind the scenes. And I think Krauser's "All for Umbrella" line also fueled that thought.

Not really. All I got from that was that they we're trying to re-create their own company, basically what Umbrella was.

I'll have better scans on the site in about a week or so when my copy arrives.

[Stars1356]

The scans make me think they are trying hard to bring back puzzles into RE.

Umbrella is dead and don't see why some people are confused and agree fully with Dot. Since Capcom doesn't know where it is going with the story, things get changed with every game. First Wesker is dead, then he is alive with super powers and has been behind the scenes working for a rival company. Then he is working for himself and wants to restart Umbrella and now he working for another company. Capcom do us a favor, bring back as many characters as possible, kill who needs to be killed (good or bad) and work on RE Outbreak File 3.

[A-J]

giant rolling balls with spikes ..

i can already imagine how fun that part is going to be >_>

[Darkmoon]

Well, I can't say I'm terribly impressed. An evil multinational corporation has been replaced with...well, an evil, multinational corporation. Given they both have damned silly names it makes very little differences, but at least they aren't an evil cult made up of parasites like a bad X-files tale.

My personal view on what Resident Evil is (and yes, for each of us that will be different, as some will want to follow the story, others the plot, yet more the gameplay) has always been those three elements I always hammer on about add naseum. Horror, exploration and puzzles.

The storyline was, unusually for me, something of a bonus rather than a major factor. I find with a lot of horror media, so long as the story isn't so awful it stops the scary, I really don't mind too much. I enjoyed some of the story and disliked other bits, but it was never such a strong thing in the games that it made much different. It's not like Metal Gear, where the storyline is deeply important to the game.

[missvalentine]

Why? Because it portrays what Resident Evil was always about? War?
Resident Evil was NEVER about zombies. It was about Umbrella wanting super soldiers. It was about armies. About Military. About WAR.

Resident Evil's theme, it's main focal point, was ALWAYS Bio-Organic Weapons.
It was never zombies.

What is now, in Resident Evil 5?
Still Bio-Organic Weapons.
Resident Evil is still true to it's theme.
As such, it's still Resident Evil.
It's not as if it has completely derived itself away from the main point, the actual theme, and went into a main character infilitrating a building and killing actual 100% humans like they are themselves.
It's not as if it became a Max Payne, or Syphon Filter, or even 007.
It's still dealing with BOWs, thus, it's still Resident Evil.
All it's doing is now, with the power of current-generation consoles allowing more action, space, environments and enemies on-screen, the fight is taking place on a open fields. It's the actual war now, it was always war, only now it's taking place on the battle-field itself.

It was always Umbrella wanting to create super-soldiers, and things just went wrong. It was never "zombie incidents", it was about BOWs, and it still is.


I've repeated many things there, and I've actually typed statements in line-formats, rather paragraphs. Maybe this way it'll be easy to understand the mere fact:

"RE is NOT about zombies. Never was, never will be."

RE is NOT about War, Never was, and should never be.

just because in a file somewhere we find out that umbrella is making Tyrants for the miltary, does NOT mean it's about war, that is one of the most stupid things i have ever heard ever.

and certainly does not mean the series has to progress until it's nothing but all out war.

RE is about a lot of things i think, it's about Horror, Survival, Puzzles, Exploration, and Zombies and BOW's, not war, Call of Duty is about War, and has Zombies in a mini game, RE is about zombies and has War in the backstory.

and also, i just have to say that i could not care less for the story in RE now, i just want to know Jill's fate and that's it, besides Story is not the most important thing in a horror game anyway, it was good in the classics where it was B-grade and i liked it, but now it's just OMG HUGE PLOT TWIST LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and it's boring, and besides, i have a knack for predicting storylines anyway, i can usually predict them and be somewhat right.

i play RE for the gameplay anyway, and the gameplay bores me to death now, and besides, it's Chris's story, my least favorite main character, which means i will care even less than usual about it.

[Zombie Fred]

Considering how long Resident Evil has been running for, I am glad on some of the "changes" to continue the series going strong. Resident Evil, to me, has always been about biological weapons in the wrong hands, with the good and evil niche plot, trying to solve the mystery. It's still the same, with TriCell now being the next corporation, where it's got a new line of biological weapons to usher on people.

If you don't like the changes then just simply ignore it, if you truly despise it, because it will not change. It's a game series I enjoy playing. For fun, with friends.

[Henry Spencer]

The series has changed from a survival horror game to a survival action title, so it only seems right that the organisation changes from now on. If the developers over at Capcom are indeed finally making the events more widespread, like Alzaire was getting at, then that's good too. About time things progressed instead of the whole virus thing being isolated incidents.

And I'd really hate for Excella to take over from say, Wesker, as the series main antagonist since lets face it, she looks pretty lame in comparison. Here's hoping the new organisation bring in good new characters that long time fans can like. It's a risk, but if the new characters are good, many of those who are disliking the changes, can get over it. Although I don't see that happening.

And it looks like spiders are back, from the look of things in the Famitsu scans...

[Nomad9026]

Those are no spiders, nor it's the chimeras. It's most likely some new form of a parasite.
Just like the "facehuggers" from re4.

[Sunglasses]

@missvalentine
RE is about BOW, not zombies.
zombies were only mistakes, tyrants and BOW were the real purpose

and basically RE is not only gameplay and puzzles, there is a plot behind the game, RE5 seems to have a strong plot and is tied in old chapters... ok there are no zombies, but again RE is not zombies.

Who cares Umbrella is gone replaced by Tricell, Umbrella it's just a name Jesus! Basically they are the same thing using two different names... so it's ridicolous complaining about a name, A NAME!!!
There are still evil guys, pharmaceutical corporations and BOWs, so RE5 is still RE also without zombies and with esploration replaced by action style.

[Zombie Fred]

Don't forget, Umbrella is still in the Resident Evil series, but not as the primay villain/co-operation anymore (as the news states).

[missvalentine]

@missvalentine
RE is about BOW, not zombies.
zombies were only mistakes, tyrants and BOW were the real purpose

and basically RE is not only gameplay and puzzles, there is a plot behind the game, RE5 seems to have a strong plot and is tied in old chapters... ok there are no zombies, but again RE is not zombies.

Who cares Umbrella is gone replaced by Tricell, Umbrella it's just a name Jesus! Basically they are the same thing using two different names... so it's ridicolous complaining about a name, A NAME!!!
There are still evil guys, pharmaceutical corporations and BOWs, so RE5 is still RE also without zombies and with esploration replaced by action style.

i think of it like this, RE's plot is about making BOW's, RE itself, or it's gameplay is about zombies, and BOW's, but mainly zombies.

and as i said before, i don't really care to much for the plot of RE now, i liked it back in Raccoon City, but after that it got a litte boring IMO, and i watch movies for plot and story, i play games for gameplay.

and well, what if they changed the name to the happy wabbit company?

then you would be complaining, i think TriCell just sounds kinda lame that's all.

it's still Resident Evil.
All it's doing is now, with the power of current-generation consoles allowing more action, space, environments and enemies on-screen, the fight is taking place on a open fields. It's the actual war now, it was always war, only now it's taking place on the battle-field itself.

just because you can doesn't mean you have to.

if i made a horror move, but had huge battle scenes and laser guns with space battles, would it be a horror movie? no, just becaue i can, doesn't mean i have to.

if capcom wants to play around with HUGE environments and lots of enemies on screen, they can, just don't call it RE, id rather them just end the series than milk the hell out of it.

[Dark_Chris]

@missvalentine
RE is about BOW, not zombies.
zombies were only mistakes, tyrants and BOW were the real purpose

and basically RE is not only gameplay and puzzles, there is a plot behind the game, RE5 seems to have a strong plot and is tied in old chapters... ok there are no zombies, but again RE is not zombies.

Who cares Umbrella is gone replaced by Tricell, Umbrella it's just a name Jesus! Basically they are the same thing using two different names... so it's ridicolous complaining about a name, A NAME!!!
There are still evil guys, pharmaceutical corporations and BOWs, so RE5 is still RE also without zombies and with esploration replaced by action style.

I absolutely agree with you!!!

[Nomad9026]

Yeah, have to say that I'am also totally agree with you there Sunglasses.

[Zomby]

Can someone tell me please wich issue it is and wich number it has ?

[aris13]

I agree with Sunglasses too.

I actually give a damn about the plot of the RE series and someone else mentioned that they should make a game about the Raccon city outbreak...again??? Aren't we done with that subject?