RE: Umbrella Chronicles Hands-on

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Kwaad said:

Smash_Brother said:

Kwaad said:

As Shams, A Wii fanboy. (sorry shams, I do like your last post, and you do tend to be one of the less rabid ones tho) said.

It would be a re-wire. They would basically have to re-create RE5 on the RE4 engine. Wich would most likely require a complete remodel of everything. Basically adding a 2-3 year dev cycle to create this 'port' But by the time it would be done, it would be a 'remake' of RE5, and not a port, becuase of the massive ammounts of money/investment in it.

 

The thing is, it has been a year and seven months since an RE "gameplay" footage was shown, and that was from 2005.

If Lair showed us anything, it's that you can't rely on year-old media as an example of what the final game will look like. Hell, RedSteel proved THAT in 6 months.

A year and seven months is an AWFUL long time for a game to go into hiding for a developer like Capcom, espeically when the Capcom show just happened and we got NOTHING about RE5.

At this point, nothing is set in stone. To say that they'd be remaking it is jumping to conclusions since we don't know that they've MADE it in the first place.

If the graphics are close to performing on a Wii, then it likely dosent push more than 10-20% of a PS3/360, and since it is being designed for them in though, that would make capcom a VERY sucky dev.

If it is a bad engine... it will still run at 100% on PS3/360. It just wont look good. However porting it to the Wii would be just as hard, as it has that 10-20x power diffrence. Meaning it would have to shave off 95% of the games power usage. (that is no small number)

 You don't know anything about how far the game is in production.  They could very well have scrapped engines, and they could make a Wii game if they wanted.  They could have two seperate Resident Evil 5s, which could be essentially the same game, but one built specifically for PS3 and 360, and one built specifically for Wii...it's not unheard of. 

I think the makers of Godfather did something like that with the recent games, BlackHand and whatever the PS3 game is.  They're not much different, but the PS3 game is built differently, and does look better.  BlackHand is still plenty fun though, and in fact got a better score because of the controls.

If they made a Wii Resident Evil 5, that looked around twice as good as Resident Evil 4, I would be plenty happy with that...and I can see Capcom doing that, considering all their current support for Nintendo.