{"id":14572,"date":"2011-10-09T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-15T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:57:37","slug":"capcom-defends-decision-to-make-resident-evil-fps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14572-capcom-defends-decision-to-make-resident-evil-fps","title":{"rendered":"Capcom defends decision to make Resident Evil FPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been a little confused by Capcom\u2019s decision to green light the Resident Evil project, Operation Raccoon City. This is due to the fact that the game will be a squad-based FPS, a gameplay experience very different from the previous iterations.<\/p>\n<p>Series producer Masachika Kawata defends the decision in an interview with <a title=\"Gamasutra\" href=\" http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/6505\/two_tendrils_of_resident_evils_.php?page=2\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a>, saying that people would become bored of a franchise that didn\u2019t change it up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the core, basically, we want to make the best use of our brand,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Resident Evil is an IP, and a franchise, that people have loved for a long time. It&#8217;s still very, very popular and we&#8217;re very, very happy about that, and we want to basically answer all the requests that we get about the series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People want to see a lot of different experiences within the Resident Evil universe, and so we&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to be able to answer those requests with a lot of different experiences, in different forms, in games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned that he&#8217;s &#8220;not too concerned&#8221; that an FPS iteration will dilute the Resident Evil brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All these different Resident Evil games that are coming out are focused on very different things. I&#8217;m thinking that if we would have brought out all these Resident Evil titles, and they were all focused on survival horror, absolutely I think people would be really sick of Resident Evil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in my mind, we&#8217;ve got this online shooter game, we&#8217;ve got other things like Mercenaries that are even more action-focused, and some other games. And by going in a lot of different directions, I&#8217;m pretty confident that people are going to still be enjoying Resident Evil for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re still foaming at the mouth, Kawata insists that 3DS title Revelations will use the traditional formula.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevelations, which is a 3DS title, is very much going to be core-fan focused and survival horror-focused,&#8221; he assures us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a more deliberately paced-game, a little bit more classic Resident Evil, solving puzzles, things like that. So definitely there is the plan to go that direction as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans are pretty upset by this change in the franchise, and perhaps rightly so \u2013 stunts like this have generally not been very successful in the past; we\u2019ll have to wait and see if Capcom can get it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producer says people get bored of the same thing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47493,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions\/47493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}