Biohazard Dark Side Chronicles Famitsu Preview

[A-J]

The latest issue of Famtisu has a new preview from Biohazard Dark Side Chronicles. It explains the RE2 scenario and talks about how unlike the actual game, Leon Ada Claire and Sherry will all be together at the same time and will work together to escape Raccoon City. The preview also contains some shots, including one of the RPD cop, Marvin. It also shows off some new enemy designs, including the lickers who look like the one's in Resident Evil 5 now. The scans can be seen courtesy of Biohaze here.

Famitsu Dark Side Chronicles Preview thanks to Biohaze.


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Cleaner versions of the scans can now be viewed at this page. Thanks to Zombie for the heads up.


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[Kaneco]

I can't really tell if the Lickers are the ones from RE5. I hope they're not, since RE5's Lickers are enhanced by
the progenitor virus and their necks are a lot thicker & much more buffed than the original RE2 ones.

I hope they just make ones close to the RE2 ones but with much more recent brand-new texture improvement,
I prefer them not to get lazy about this game like they did with UC. Looking at the new zombie textures I think
they'll do a good job at it.

[Zombie]

I love Sherry's new 3D model but the story is going to be a mess.

[Stars1356]

Very interesting. Yea its hard to tell what the licker looks like. Also there is a shot of Claire with Ada. They were never together in RE 2 so I don't know what the deal with that is.

[Red-Jackal]

Hrm, I think everyone would have expected the typical, Leon/Ada-Claire/Sherry pairups, but I feel this adds an interesting twist, and may shed light on some interactions we've never seen before. I think the only time Claire and Ada were in the same area, was when the shadow of the agent tossed her the rocket-launcher. Correct me, if there are more instances that i don't recall.

That is unless, you are capable of choosing either Leon or Claire for those specific scenarios; which would be a nice set-up if they allowed for different events to occur, depending on the person chosen.

Im very relieved to see Sherry atleast. And for some reason, the idea of an Ada/Claire team excites my senses XD

[Mr_Zombie]

Booo, they're once again reusing Ada's RE4 model :/. They could have at least remove those straps so she would look like an ordinary civvie, like in RE2.

I'm glad they changed Lickers. I don't care if they're using downgraded RE5 models or completly new, I'm just glad they aren't using Outbreak models - those skinny Lickers were awful.

[riderkid]

i can only make sherry out on the scans, there too fuzzy. will higher res images be uploaded soon?

[Mr. Spencer]

t explains the RE2 scenario and talks about how unlike the actual game, Leon Ada Claire and Sherry will all be together at the same time and will work together to escape Raccoon City.

It's already sounding bad. Of those characters, only Leon and Ada were ever together, and Claire and Sherry. I certainly hope they don't mean all four at the same time, because that would be ridiculous and would involve further detraction from the earlier game(s). Good to know that we'll be seeing Marvin, my hope is that he'll play more or less the same role as in RE2. We find him as Leon, there's a brief scene where he talks about some "zombies" and then loses consciousness or becomes a zombie right there on the spot.

Same with Kendo, I hope we get the chance to talk to him before the zombies pay him a surprise visit with their wallets in hand for a bargain at KENDO GUN SHOP. It's also looking unlikely that we'll ever hear from Nicholai again, I'm already tired of seeing Ada and her pretentious attitude. That said, can't wait to see more of the CODE: Veronica scenario, wonder if we'll see Steve in there.

[Zombie Fred]

Good stuff, I like Sherry's model.

[DXP]

this is already putting me off.... they screwed up the whole resi time line in UC now this.... ada and claire meeting up? leon protecting sherry, and now marvin outside in the main hall and not in the office... is it me or have capcom gone off the rails?

[James]

The game will be fun. Deal with it.

I'm sure the new chapters will add to the canon. I mean, the main game of UC was never meant to be "how it really happened" so I don't think it's the same with Darkside, which looks to be going for a more "player friendly" approach.

I like this approach. It works. And yeah, we know RE2 is the canon already, so why do we need to go on about how they've changed it? We know it's for the sake of playability.

Play the game KNOWING that what happened in the original RE2 is what really happened. I don't see how, for the sake of a game, we need to complain.

Did you guys really expect otherwise?

[Zombie Fred]

The game will be fun. Deal with it.

I'm sure the new chapters will add to the canon. I mean, the main game of UC was never meant to be "how it really happened" so I don't think it's the same with Darkside, which looks to be going for a more "player friendly" approach.

I like this approach. It works. And yeah, we know RE2 is the canon already, so why do we need to go on about how they've changed it? We know it's for the sake of playability.

Play the game KNOWING that what happened in the original RE2 is what really happened. I don't see how, for the sake of a game, we need to complain.

Did you guys really expect otherwise?

And besides, why complain to a revisioned route for 2's journey when they could do a full remake of 2 another time, and that this journey would be a more refresh take on the 2 scenario?

[riderkid]

not really, i expect a game, like when i bought chocobo tales for the Wii. it got bad reviews but i still enjoy it.

so all i care about is one thing...WTF HAPPENED TO SHERRY!!!!!

[DXP]

Alot of people on my games design course would rather have a remake of 2 with the 4 engine, personally myself would have a remake of 2 and 3 not changing anything apart from making it like REmake, first time i saw what uc looked like i was like this is gonna be awesome, after playing it i find it as pointless as the 80+ runthroughs on re4 it was good at the time but after a while its not the same, by doing this like with UC i know the story i don't need too see a rehash in a on the rail shooter engine i mean christ where was barry in UC? its why i prefer the old re's when they actually scared the crap out of me and not have me doing army of 2/Gow co-op, i'll play it but other than that meh =/

[Sephiroth]

Hang on Leon Ada Claire and Sherry will all be together at the same time and will work together to escape Raccoon City NO NO NO WHAT THE HELL IS CAPCOM DOING Doint get me worng I like the idea but it just shemes really really stupid WHY. Is Capcom really that chep they aint make one chapter be Leon and Ada then the next one be Claire and Sherry.