Capcom has officially announced the long-rumored remake of Resident Evil 4, via Sony’s State of Play today. Resident Evil 4 Remake will also be coming to Xbox and PC via Steam.
What’s more, we got a pretty solid look at the remake via a detailed cinematic trailer captured on PS5, and a release date of March 24, 2023. We also learned that there’s PSVR2 content in development, though no further details on that component were shared. And, per Capcom, we’ll get to enjoy the remake on Xbox Series S and X and PC as well.
According to a PlayStation Blog post shared following the event, Resident Evil 4 will be a “reimagining” of the 2005 game’s storyline, with an aim to “achieve state-of-the-art quality for a survival horror suitable for 2023, while preserving the essence of the original game.” It looks like there may be changes to the original’s controls in addition to graphical updates.
Suggestion of a Resident Evil 4 remake came as part of a Capcom leak in late 2020; a data breach reportedly discovered references to an RE4 remake among other future Capcom projects. The latest reports from the rumour mill suggest that the project was subject to a “partial reboot” within Capcom due to internal disagreements over its direction.
Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 4 is real and coming to consoles and PC on March 24, 2023 — with PlayStation VR2 content, as well — the company announced Thursday during Sony’s State of Play livestream. A new trailer showed the game’s vastly improved graphics, but the same spooky atmosphere that made Resident Evil 4 a hit when it debuted in 2005.
This time, the game is being developed to achieve state-of-the-art quality for a survival horror suitable for 2023, while preserving the essence of the original game,” Capcom said on Sony’s PlayStation Blog. “We aim to make the game feel familiar to fans of the series, while also providing a fresh feeling to it. This is being done by reimagining the storyline of the game while keeping the essence of its direction, modernizing the graphics and updating the controls to a modern standard.”
Based on the remake’s official description, the general gist of the plot is intact: Set six years after the events of Resident Evil 2, ex-cop and survivor Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to a remote European village to find and rescue the kidnapped daughter of the President of the United States. Leon discovers something has gone terribly wrong with the village’s inhabitants, and an attempt at rescue ensues.
The RE4 remake was initially announced for PS5, but it’s also coming to Windows PC and Xbox Series X.
Resident Evil 4 was first released on GameCube, initially as a platform exclusive. RE4 later came to Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. Capcom has released remakes of the previous games in the franchise, including Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, in recent years.
After years of anticipation, Capcom has officially announced a remake of Resident Evil 4 in the vein of its recent remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. In other words, it’s not a remaster, and if it’s anything like the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, it will make substantial changes to the original game both in terms of gameplay and story. These finer details will be revealed at a later date though. For now, what we have is an initial trailer and the confirmation of a release on March 24, 2023.
Resident Evil 4 debuted back in 2005, and at first, it was only available via the Nintendo GameCube. Since then, it’s come to just about every platform under the sun. Unlike its successors, Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil 4 favored survival-horror over action-horror like its predecessors. As a result, it didn’t sell as well as the aforementioned successors, but it reviewed better. It’s widely considered the best game in the series alongside Resident Evil 2. Further, it’s not often just referred to as one of the best horror games of all time, but one of the best games of all time across any genre.
As always, we will keep you updated as more information about the project surfaces. In the meantime, for more Resident Evil
Resident Evil 4 Remake is in development for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. Below, you can read more about the game, courtesy of an official story synopsis:
“In Resident Evil 4, special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped. Finding his way to a rural village in Europe, he faces new threats that are a departure from the traditional lumbering zombie enemies of the earlier installments in the series. Leon battles horrific new creatures infested by a new threat called Las Plagas and faces off against an aggressive group of enemies including mind-controlled villagers that are tied to Los Illuminados, the mysterious cult which is behind the abduction.”
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