Chris Kramer, Capcom’s senior director for communications and community, has told Major Nelson that Resident Evil 5 is a continuation of the series and is no longer a traditional survival horror game.

“Resident Evil 5 can still loosely be considered a survival horror game,” he offered. However, compared with Resident Evil 4 it will be “more exciting, more action with more tension.”

“You have the ability to feel more like an action hero,” he went on. “You will have the largest Arsenal of weapons in a Resident Evil game to date.”

“The whole game is designed from ground up for co-op,” Kramer added. “There will never be a point where Sheva is knocked on the head or stolen by Gremlins.”

“It’s totally changed the Resident Evil experience and it’s as big a leap forward for the series as Resident Evil 4 was.”

The Resident Evil 5 demo should be ready to download on Xbox Live Marketplace any minute now.

http://www.videogaming247.com/2009/01/26/capcom-resident-evil-5-can-still-loosely-be-considered-a-survival-horror-game/

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Thank you for admitting you murdered RE capcom.

no wonder the japanese sales of RE4 were way down from RE3 levels

you made a franchise which had its foundation based on survival horror into a action TPS kind of game!

Yes its become more of an adventure shooter really but it still has its scary part.

It's still nothing like an actual shooter such as Gears Of War, at least not the first chapter. Judging by the demo it feels much more intense than GoW or another TPS.

I wouldn't say it's horror but it still feels somewhat scary (just not in a goosebumps way).

Resident Evil 4 wasn't scary at all compared to Resident Evil Remake.

I'm just as disappointed with RE4 and RE5. I'm sure RE5 will be a good game, just not a Resident Evil game.

While that confirms it for me, I was already thinking this. For me personally I'd rather have more atmosphere and less action.

Did they take out the mercenary parts? Why not add more scary environments? I don't understand why they cannot keep the scariness, entertainment that doesn't make you feel as much, isn't realizing its potential.

I found trying to beat the mercenaries in RE4 to be quite scary and also the dark prison section and sewer sections of the story were also very scary, but way too short. It was when they started putting in the military sections and making the zombies act like just an average mob of people that it wasn't creepy at all.

aww go back to giant mansions and zombies. have infected crows and dogs jump in through windows and scare the shiz outta people. have those freaky crawly jumpy things with the long tongue eating a person and see you and climb around the walls and attack you. bring back a nemisis that stalks you that you randomly encounter throughout the game. bring back the horror!!

I see BengaBenga and KylieDog having a field day with this.

Id rather gameplay wise they didnt deviate from resi 4, but plotwise, bring back the goddamn zombies!

YAY somone thinks like me!!!

@markers

TOTALLY AGREE

Big Mansions + zombies FTW!

I stillr emember RE 1 & the brilliant experience it was back in the day