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Lastgengamer on 15 November 2009

Many Resident Evil fans on the Nintendo Wii were upset to learn that the Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is an on-rails arcade shooter instead of a mainline traditional title. Matt Dahlgren, the product manager for the Resident Evil brand, explained Capcom’s decision for the gameplay in a recent live-streaming event:

If you look at Resident Evil in the past, there’s a lot of different styles of games that have appeared within the franchise. An arcade-style shooter is definitely not brand new to the series. And it fits particularly well on the Wii platform. We already did Umbrella Chronicles once and that left some gaps in the storyline. So it made sense to finish off this iteration of this series.

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles will be released on November 17th exclusively for the Nintendo Wii.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-6894-Video-Game-News-Examiner~y2009m11d14-Capcom-explain-why-Darkside-Chronicles-in-onrails

 

So is this answer satisfactory? I would say that makes sense.

 



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theRepublic on 15 November 2009

Personally, I couldn't care less about the story. Just give me a good game and make it in a genre I like.

So no, this excuse does not work with me.



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Onyxmeth on 15 November 2009

Enough on-rail shooters. When are we going to get Resident Evil RPG? I've been waiting for 13 years damnit!



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Siko1989 on 15 November 2009

good explanation but really it makes sence since UC was a railshooter lol... i hope capcom makes a wii resident evil games titled resident evil 4.5 .. it will be set 5 years after RE4 and 5 years before RE5...




Galaki on 15 November 2009

How about RE platformer? I want to stomp some zombie heads.



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Samus Aran on 15 November 2009

I want a RE mmorpg. That's where the money is in today XD

burgerstein on 15 November 2009

Because making the sequel to an on rails shooter a SRPG would be stupid?

I really didn't think this needed to be explained. It's this close |---| to being a numbered sequel.



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koffieboon on 15 November 2009

If I recall correctly they brought all the negative reactions on themselves by first claiming Wii owners would be very happy.

Anyway, nothing to see here except for some PR talk.



hsrob on 15 November 2009

I mean it makes sense but it's not like it wouldn't have worked or people wouldn't have gone nuts if the "Chronicles" was finished as a full 3-D game.



bmmb1 on 15 November 2009
hsrob said:
I mean it makes sense but it's not like it wouldn't have worked or people wouldn't have gone nuts if the "Chronicles" was finished as a full 3-D game.

Yup.



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