Capcom has unveiled Resident Evil 9 running in both first and third person views, along with a new gameplay video for Pragmata.
With Monster Hunter Wilds still the best-selling game of the year, despite problems with the PC version, Capcom is on the best roll of their 46 year existence. They’re hoping that the recently unveiled Resident Evil Requiem (aka Resident Evil 9) will continue that run and the new gameplay footage they’ve just unveiled suggests it probably will.
Unfortunately, it’s still only a minute or so of actual gameplay, and even that is based on what Capcom already showed at Summer Game Fest early in the month.
It’s still the most they’ve shown in public so far though, as the developers revealed a few more details about protagonist Grace Ashcroft, with still no indication that there are any other playable characters – despite rumours of Leon S. Kennedy and/or Jill Valentine being involved.
It’s perfectly possible that Capcom is keeping other playable characters a secret for now, but given how they describe Grace as being inexperienced with combat and naturally timid it seems she’s very much the focus of the story.
Or perhaps they just want to keep things scarier, by making your character less capable – with the footage so far having an almost Silent Hill style vibe to it.
Resident Evil Requiem will launch on February 27, for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC, which really isn’t that far away, so they’ve got a lot to explain in a relatively short period of time.
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The video above was part of the latest Capcom Spotlight, which was a bit longer and more substantial than usual. The other big reveal was gameplay footage for sci-fi game Pragmata, which Capcom weren’t being quite so coy about.
It’s a curious mix of puzzle game and third person shooter, where you attack robot enemies in the normal manner but first have to remove their amour by playing a little puzzle game. There are also other non-combat puzzles, to represent hacking, and what looks like some light platforming.
Doing two completely different things at once seems like it might be a challenge, but Capcom appear confident in it, and it’ll be playable at Gamescom in August. The game itself will be released in 2026.
The rest of the spotlight focused on live service games Street Fighter 6 and Monster Hunter Wilds, including a team-up with Fender for the latter, and only a brief mention for the upcoming Onimusha reboot.
A little more time was spent on Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess, with the game set to get an expansion called Otherworldly Venture, that includes what sounds like a survival mode.
It wasn’t entirely clear if it’ll be free or not but there will also be an update for the first anniversary, that adds 8-bit style music to the game’s already impressive soundtrack, and that definitely won’t cost anything.
Capcom tends to make most of its big reveals at other events, so it’s difficult to say when you might hear more about Resident Evil, but Gamescom is a good bet, given they’ve already said they’re going to be there.
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