Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 6 will have mutliplayer DLC available post-launch. The survival horror will be launching on Xbox 360 and PS3 on 2 October, with a PC release date still to be confirmed.

In the press stuff, Capcom doesn’t specify whether the content is free or paid DLC; it reads to me like a way to lure people into signing up for the new (free) Resident Evil.net social and stat tracking service which is to launch alongside the game.

There will be three multiplayer gameplay modes on offer:

• Survivors Mode takes the classic solo- and team-based versus mode and adds a twist. Get killed and you respawn as an enemy character with the ability to attack the human characters. Take down two human characters to resurrect in human form. Last man or team standing wins.
• In Predator Mode, one player takes on the role of the Ustanak, the fearsome B.O.W. that stalks Jake Muller throughout his campaign, and tries to eliminate the human players. The humans’ task: stop the deadly B.O.W. in its tracks, or at least survive until the end of the session.
• Choosing the human side in Siege Mode will see players protecting a single NPC, while as a member of the enemy team, players will need to eliminate that same NPC. If the NPC is still alive at the end of the time period, the human team win.
• Survivors, Predator ,and Siege modes will all support up to six players online and be played using maps from Mercenaries Mode.
• Players will be able to track their accomplishments in these three modes alongside their main campaign statistics and compare their performance with others by registering on Resident Evil.Net.

Capcom stated that further post-launch DLC for Resident Evil 6 will include additional maps for Mercenaries, which can in turn be used as maps for Survivors, Predator, and Siege modes. Yet more DLC was also promised for announcement at a later date.

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