An actual-time strategy tackle Resident Evil has been introduced for iPhone and Android, developed in "close collaboration with Capcom to ensure authenticity and quality."
Resident Evil Survival Unit is being co-developed by Joycity Corporation, a Korean cell gaming firm that beforehand made Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War, one other licensed real-time strategy spin-off.
A full reveal of Survival Unit will happen subsequent week however, till then, a single piece of art work launched at present affords the smallest of clues to the game's setting.
Amid a suitably darkish and ominous environment, a automobile is stopped within the woods subsequent to an promoting billboard for… you guessed it, Umbrella Corporation. The advert exhibits two fortunately smiling people, with the tagline: "Our Business is life itself…"
Umbrella present probably locations Resident Evil Survival Unit earlier than the occasions of Resident Evil 4, by which level the evil organisation has crumbled. Could we be wanting on the woods across the Arklay Mountains, close to Raccoon City? We can nearly glimpse a mountain vary within the background, so it's doable.
It's straightforward to think about a real-time shooter taking benefit of the occasions seen in and across the Resident Evil game, the place a number of groups of STARS commandos — characters that followers have now grown to care about — most be poked and prodded into action, whereas stored alive for as long as you possibly can.
An accompanying press release states that Survival Unit is "designed to appeal to both long-time fans and new players," suggesting we are going to see some acquainted faces or settings right here.
And with the primary sequence headed back to Raccoon City in Resident Evil Requiem, and supposedly choosing up the storyline of Umbrella, now appears a good time to revisit the setting and occasions that began all of it.
Resident Evil Survival Unit will launch in Japan, South Korea, North America, Europe, and Asia, revealed by anime firm Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony. More particulars can be confirmed subsequent week by way of an online showcase, set to broadcast by way of YouTube on July 10.
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