[RUMOR] Resident Evil: Raccoon City - New multiplayer game NOT DEVELOPED BY CAPCOM!

Following in the trail blazed by Dead Rising 2, the next Resident Evil game may come from the Great White North. SOCOM developer Slant Six Games could be the latest studio tapped by Capcom to create its games.

A document forwarded to Kotaku indicates that a new, team-based Resident Evil game is currently in development at Slant Six. The developer is responsible for SOCOM:U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation for the PlayStation 3 as well as two iterations for the PSP, Tactical Strike and Fireteam Bravo 3. Named (or codenamed) in the document as Resident Evil: Raccoon City, Slant Six looks to be staffing up to bring even more zombie game development to Vancouver.

When contacted for comment, publisher reps said "Capcom does not respond to rumors and/or speculation."

Slant Six Games writes on its official web site that it is currently in development on "an amazing new project" that is unannounced. That project is being developed in conjunction with a "new publishing partner on a world class franchise." Several Slant Six current and former employees list an unannounced "multiplayer action game" for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on their LinkedIn profiles.

In March of this year, Slant Six solicited work for a "Japanese translator/interpreter."

Capcom has looked outside of Japan for help on some of its better known franchises, including GRIN (Bionic Commando), Ninja Theory (Devil May Cry) and Blue Castle Games (Dead Rising 2), another Vancouver based studio that had its zombie project leaked well in advance.

Thanks for the heads up, Hawk.

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Biojex said:

Not opposed. It sounds like a potential improvement on the Outbreak series (which I loved). As long as they keep the main games of the series in house at Capcom this doesn't bother me. A team based Resident Evil set during the Raccoon city outbreak? Count me in.

I could see them easily turning this in to "Left 4 Dead: Resident Evil" Which could be both good and meh.

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Something Sexy said:

As long as they keep it as close to the survival horror genre as possible I am in!

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Biojex said:

Not opposed. It sounds like a potential improvement on the Outbreak series (which I loved). As long as they keep the main games of the series in house at Capcom this doesn't bother me. A team based Resident Evil set during the Raccoon city outbreak? Count me in.

I could see them easily turning this in to "Left 4 Dead: Resident Evil" Which could be both good and meh.

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Something Sexy said:

As long as they keep it as close to the survival horror genre as possible I am in!

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plasmid303 said:

I'm not opposed to the idea of an outsourced RE, I just don't like the studio supposedly handling it.

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Biojex said:

Have they done anything besides Socom? I've personally never played a Socom game.

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plasmid303 said:

The problem is that RE hasn't been purely survival horror in a long long time, and I'm afraid the (supposed) new games will be more action-oriented like RE4 and 5, especially if it's headed to a studio who's only done shooters.

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Darth_Fatso said:

I wonder if this will be a sub game like Survivor and the Outbreaks or will deal with the main characters.

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Biojex said:

Hopefully Revelations does well, so Capcom sees people still love/prefer Resident Evil's that cater to their Survival horror side.

But like I said, I hope the main series stays in house. That way this could be a deviation to satiate the people who love RE to be more action oriented while the main series returns to it's horror roots.

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lord-22 said:

bring back kevin and cindy and i'm happy.

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