Resident Evil 9 Officially Revealed at Summer Game Fest 2025

It's official: Resident Evil 9 is coming, and we conscionable got our archetypal existent look astatine it during Summer Game Fest 2025.

Resident Evil Requiem is simply a single-player endurance fearfulness crippled owed retired February 27, 2026 crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S.

On-stage astatine SGF, big Geoff Keighley said Resident Evil Requiem marks a "bold displacement for the franchise some successful code and gameplay." Expect "high-stakes cinematic action" connected apical of endurance horror.

Check retired the debut trailer below.

The trailer appears to corroborate a destroyed Raccoon City, which was nuked astatine the extremity of Resident Evil 3, via metropolis shots that possibly suggest open-world crippled design. There's a little look astatine the Raccoon City Police Department successful ruins.

We whitethorn person a marque caller playable quality connected our hands successful the signifier of FBI method expert Grace Ashcroft, who is investigating a bid of unusual deaths. She's ordered to instrumentality to the country of her mother's murder, and successful doing truthful indispensable look her past.

We past spot Grace strapped to a gurney and perceive a mysterious fig accidental "I cognize present that you're the 1 that I've been searching for... peculiar one. Chosen one." Is helium talking astir Grace? If Grace is a playable character, is she the lone one? Are established Resident Evil characters similar Leon successful the crippled and playable?

Capcom's authoritative website doesn't person immoderate meaningful answers, but does constituent to "technological advancements" and "a communicative with affluent characters and gameplay that's much immersive than ever before."

Here's the authoritative blurb:

Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living.
Resident Evil Requiem is the ninth rubric successful the mainline Resident Evil series.
Prepare to flight decease successful a heart-stopping acquisition that volition chill you to your core.
A caller epoch of endurance fearfulness begins successful 2026. Technological advancements combined with the improvement team's extent of acquisition harvester successful a communicative with affluent characters and gameplay that's much immersive than ever before.

We've known a caller Resident Evil crippled was coming for a twelvemonth now, with Capcom having teased the adjacent crippled during its summertime watercourse past July and past teased it yet again conscionable past period portion celebrating 10 cardinal players of Resident Evil 4 Remake. That remake, which launched successful 2023, was awarded a uncommon IGN 10/10, with our reviewer calling it "the series' astir relentlessly breathtaking escapade rebuilt, refined, and realised to the afloat grade of its tremendous potential."

If you request a drawback up, cheque retired everything announced astatine Summer Game Fest 2025.

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