The “another factor” revealed at this yr’s Summer season Sport Fest was a teaser trailer for the newest recreation within the Resident Evil sequence — Resident Evil 9, or Resident Evil: Requiem. The trailer drops a number of particulars in regards to the recreation’s characters and setting, together with that the sequence will apparently return to the ill-fated Raccoon Metropolis, because the gutted stays of its police station make an look within the trailer. The sport is ready to launch on February 27, 2026.
Capcom and sequence producer Jun Takeuchi initially stated that the following recreation within the sequence would want extra time to be revealed — however “extra time” apparently meant solely 20 extra minutes, because the reveal trailer dropped on the finish of the present. The cinematic trailer follows an FBI agent named Grace, who’s investigating a sequence of mysterious deaths, together with her mom’s — her mom being Resident Evil Outbreak’s red-suited reporter, Alyssa Ashcroft.
The trailer doesn’t reveal a lot else, besides the sport’s launch date and that it launches on PC and consoles, and that it’s a single-player recreation. It additionally contains extra visuals exhibiting what’s left of Raccoon Metropolis after it was nuked on the finish of Resident Evil 3. The sequence has to this point not returned to the zombified city exterior of remakes and remixes of video games Resident Evils 1-3.
