Resident Evil 6 executive producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, director Eiichirou Sasaki and producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi recently had an interview with Famitsu magazine giving further details to their upcoming title.

They claimed that while the game may not be a going back to the roots of the series they do want to put a greater emphasis on horror, what the RE games actually became known for.

“One of the appealing aspects of the Resident Evil series is the feeling of dread; where you know something bad is waiting ahead, but you still need to go anyways,” said Sasaki. “But there’s much more to fear than just dread. We want to show the player that there are more facets to fear than they first thought of.”

The developers hinted that they wanted to find new ways to scare the players instead of relying on typical jump scares or atmosphere.

With the introduction of Lanshiang the team wishes to bring a much more crowded realistic feeling in comparison to the recent areas from RE 4 and 5 in small African or Spanish towns. For this they traveled to China to “get a feel for the cities there”, creating levels from actual experiences.

As in the recent Capcom-Unity Update the creators have confirmed that the enemies are actual zombies, though they did not comment on the involvement of Umbrella Corp. or Tricell.

“All we can say now is that ‘someone’ is engaging in acts of bio-terrorism across the globe. Who it is, we can’t tell you. After the game system established in RE 4, it became difficult to introduce zombies into the game, but we’ve brought them back. You might be interested to know that these zombies are not victims of the T-virus.”

When asked about the third protagonist next to Leon and Chris the producers were a little coy.

“For people like us, seeing veterans like Chris and Leon do their thing is fine, we’ve been with the series for 15 years. But we needed a character that new younger players could relate to. That’s why we’ve brought in the third protagonist.”

Bringing the series back to what its known for, namely Survival-Horror, seems logical, though from what we’ve seen in the trailer and the comments of the developers we can expect the new protagonist to be a dick.

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