Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is an upcoming 2012 third-person shooter video game with online playability for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It will be developed by Slant Six Games and published by Capcom. The game will be a new installment in the Resident Evil series of video games and will be developed by Slant Six Games instead of Capcom. The game takes place during the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3. Capcom hopes for an early 2012 release.

Plot
The game takes place in the year 1998, during the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3, after the outbreak of the t-Virus in Raccoon City. However it is a reinterpretation of the events that occurred in the original games, and players are given the opportunity to change the occurrence of certain events in the Resident Evil canon. Players will take the role of an officer of the Umbrella Security Service, part of the Umbrella Corporation. Members of the USS are tasked with destroying evidence of Umbrella Pharmaceutical, Inc.'s illegal activities which caused the t-Virus outbreak, including killing survivors of the outbreak. Among their enemies are Government Spec Ops, who are tasked with exposing the actions of Umbrella and understanding the cause of the t-Virus outbreak in Raccoon City. The game will see the return of major places as well as characters of the Resident Evil series including Raccoon City as well as characters; Leon S. Kennedy, and Claire Redfield. Also announced at E3 2011 is the decision whether or not to kill Leon and Claire so you can keep the storyline as it is or you can change it drastically.

Environments known to appear in the game are Central street, the street left burning by the oil truck that decimates Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield's car in the opening cinematic to Resident Evil 2, about a block or so away from the Gun Shop Kendo (It is also the starting point for Scenario A, and a joint street to Central Station, where Jill Valentine makes her escape via Raccoon's Tram system in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis). This area is showcased in the latest gameplay video from E3 2011. It is also shown in the gameplay demo from San Diego Comic Con 2011, where the members of the Umbrella Security Service overhear Leon and Claire shouting to each other after the crash, re-creating dialogue from the original Resident Evil 2. New footage also shows a recreation of the ending of Resident Evil 2's opening cut sequence. This demo also reveals Kendo's Gun Shop as another location. Another area shown is the Stagla gas station, previously from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, although it does not appear to be the same gas station Jill ends up in. The Raccoon City Police Department has also been shown in one of the trailers, and a screenshot indicates that the Raccoon General Hospital from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and Resident Evil Outbreak will also make an appearance, although the screenshot appears to be of a back entrance previously unseen. Other places likely to appear due to information from the "Inserted Evil" ARG are the sewers from RE2 and Raccoon City Hall and the Raccoon Park (Information from the second ARG mission :Check The stairway in City Hall. Check out the big sewer grate in the park.) Other locations revealed by the site are the RPD and Lonsdale Yard.

Campaign Scenarios
The game contains these current scenarios:

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 * Objective: Infiltrate in the Birkin's laboratory and steal the G-virus sample.
 * Areas: Umbrella Underground Laboratory.
 * Characters: HUNK.
 * Enemies: UBCS, G|G-Birkin.

Corruption

 * Objective: Destroy all the evidence of the Umbrella participation in the outbreak.
 * Areas: Raccoon City Hall.
 * Characters: Nicholai Ginovaef.
 * Enemies: Zombies, Lickers, SpecOps.

No Survivors

 * Objective: Find the cop and kill him.
 * Areas: Stagla Gas Station, Kendo Gun Shop.
 * Characters: Claire Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy.
 * Enemies: Zombies, Hunters, Lickers, SpecOps, T-103

Multiplayer Modes
These Multiplayer Modes have been confirmed by Capcom for the game:

Team Attack
A team deathmatch style gametype. The goal is for one of the two teams (Spec Ops or USS) to kill the other in order to attain the highest score.

Biohazard
The goal is to escort samples of the G-Virus back to the base of your team.

Survivors
A competetive twist on survival gametypes; the goal is to survive until a rescue helicopter arrives, while fending off the other team.

Heroes Mode
The goal is to fight against your opponents' and defend your own team's iconic characters.

Wolfpack unit

 * "Vector" - Master of stealth, real name unknown
 * Hector Hivers - Explosives expert, codename Beltway
 * Michaela Heinzwaffen - Team medic, codename Bertha
 * Vladimir Bodrovski- Designated marksman, codename Spectre
 * Karena Lesproux- Team leader and a USS Commander, codename Lupo
 * Christine Yamata- A USS Field scientist, codename Four-Eyes

Goverment Spec Ops

 * Willow
 * DeeAy
 * Harley
 * Shona
 * Tweed
 * Party Girl

Playables in Heroes Mode


Seven classic characters from Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 were recently confirmed as playable in the new Heroes Mode. Also, a new character nicknamed LONE WOLF was confirmed to debut in this mode.
 * Leon S. Kennedy - A rookie cop and one of the surviving Raccoon City Police Department, and as a cop, he was being procecuted by the USS
 * Claire Redfield - College student and sister to Chris Redfield. She was "procecuted" by the WOLFPACK.
 * Jill Valentine - A former STARS Alpha Team member and a survivor of the "mansion incident".
 * Carlos Olivera - One of the few surviving UBCS mecenaries, he was confirmed in the same trailer as Jill.
 * HUNK - A USS member known as "Mr. Death", confirmed via Inserted Evil clue #4; the Wolfpack met with him after he obtained a G-Virus sample.
 * Nicholai Ginovaef - A russian mercenary of the UBCS, he was confirmed to play a important role in the main game.
 * LONE WOLF - A legendary helicopter pilot of Umbrella, is unknown if he appears in the main game, but he was confirmed as a playable character in the Heroes Mode.
 * Ada Wong - A female spy sent by The Agency to obtain a G-virus sample.

B.O.Ws/Non Human

 * Nemesis Beta Parasite
 * Zombie
 * Crimson Head
 * Licker
 * Hunter α
 * T-103
 * Nemesis-T Type
 * Zombie Dog
 * G-Birkin

Human

 * Government Spec Ops
 * RPD Officers
 * UBCS Mercenaries

Targets

 * Leon S. Kennedy
 * Claire Redfield
 * Unnamed elite Spec Ops team

Areas

 * Raccoon City Police Department
 * Raccoon City Hall
 * Raccoon City Hospital
 * Raccoon City Laboratory
 * Raccoon City Park
 * Stalga Gas Station
 * Lonsdale Yard
 * Other places were confirmed in Inserted Evil, yet are only speculations.

Gameplay
The game has players taking the role of one of the members of a USS clean up crew. Alongside a single player mode, the game will also offer a 4 player co-operative mode as the player experiences the events of the game. Operation Raccoon City will allow the player to make decisions that could have major repercussions on series canon, such as causing the death of Leon S. Kennedy or Claire Redfield during the course of the game.

A multiplayer mode is confirmed, which pits the USS against the Government Spec Ops, with the latter looking to uncover the situation Umbrella is attempting to hide. In addition, there are a few elements being added to the multiplayer. One of which is the presence of zombies on the multiplayer maps, including Hunters and Tyrants being spawned occasionally. This is similar to Mercenaries, but with a twist: Normal zombies can be used as shields. Being shot may cause bleeding, which causes a feeding frenzy to converge on the bleeding character. The player must hide or hold their position while the bleeding subsides and the zombies become more passive again.

Capcom-unity later announced at E3 that Lupo, and Four Eyes are new playable characters and that players will also get a chance to kill Claire Redfield. At E3 2011, the gameplay shows that if a member of the team becomes infected and their health bar runs out, the player turns into a zombie and can attack their former teammates. Gameinformer also added that the government Spec Ops might be playable team in the game and might be set out similar to the USS.&#91;4&#93;

Confirmed weapons
The weapons for the game are directly taken for Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and Slant Six SOCOM titles, takes the more notable weapons for this games. A great part of the weapons are confirmed via Kendo Gun Shop webpage, via Inserted Evil in the fifth clue.

All playable characters begin the game with a standard handgun and a combat knife. The selectable weapons are separated into six categories including shotguns, sniper rifles , assault rifles , machine guns and submachine guns with each category containing between 3 and 6 weapons. P layers may choose only one before the campaing begins. , and Other weapons, like handguns,flamethrowers and grenade launchers are confirmed in game, but it is unknown if players can select these, start with these, or need to obtain them in the game. The "magnums" (and/or revolvers) category are not yet confirmed. Currently, the grenade launcher just uses explosive rounds ammo, despite the incendiary, acid and nitrogen rounds from RE2 and RE3.

Other non-playable characters and bosses use weapons not shown on the Kendo Gun Shop web page. Nemesis-T Type uses his trademark FIM-92 Stinger rocket launcher, as well as the Gatling minigun from his movie appearance. Claire Redfield uses a Penn Arms L1 rather than her signature M79 Grenade launcher against     the USS. Also, in Claire's render, she is shown using a shotgun rather than her canon bowgun. Nicholai Ginovaef uses a H&amp;K PSG1.

It is unknown if classic characters like Leon and Claire use their trademark sidearms, the H&K VP70 and Browning HP, but both weapons were confirmed to be in the game. During the Heroes Mode trailer, Carlos Oliveira and Nicholai Ginovaef was showed using a SIG P226, as the standart sidearm of the UBCS. The render of Ada Wong was shown using the Blacktail and Jill Valentine with the Samurai Edge.

Another weapon pack was taken from Resident Evil 5, with weapons like the AK-74, H&K MP5, H&amp;K PSG-1 and others. Alfred Ashford's sniper rifle from Code: Veronica was confirmed to be in the game.

The grenades in game can be used by USS members, UBCS mercenaries, RPD Officers and Government Spec Ops. Currently, just the frag and flash grenades are confirmed along with the proximity bomb used by both Beltway and Nicholai.

The knife has special action techniques merging with martial arts attacks to kill enemies. Blades includes survival knifes, machetes and daggers used by Wolfpack members and classic characters in the Heroes Mode.

Non-confirmed weapons
Currently, only real life firearms are present in game, despite the non-real weapons like the RE2's Spark Shot and the RE3's Mine Thrower.

It is also unknown if the game includes the infinite ammo option and the unlockable weapons feature, despite other classic and notable past game weapons like the M202A1, the RPG-7, the S&amp;W M500, the M93R, the ARWEN 37, the Red9 and the Claire's bowgun, for example.

Downloable weapons
Operation Raccoon City is the first game in the series to include DLC weapons, currently eight in total: Machine Pistol, Combat Shotgun (Armsel Stryker), Perforator (Kel-Tec KSG), Combat SMG (TDI Vector), Anti-matérial rifle (Barret M87), Matilda (H&K VP70 burst), Cowboy Shotgun, and Classic Launcher (M79). Some of these weapons are based in country-like style and others have notorious designs.

Development
The May 2011 edition of the Official Xbox Magazine, to be released on April 5, shows an image of an individual in a gas mask along Umbrella, Inc. logo on the issue's cover. On November 1, 2010 Kotaku reported on a rumor that Slant Six Games, developer of SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, was developing Resident Evil: Raccoon City. On its website, Slant Six Games wrote that it was currently developing "an amazing new project" that was unannounced, which was developed in conjunction with a "new publishing partner on a world class franchise."

In an interview with 1up.com, Masachika Kawata estimated the game, as of March 30, 2011, to be 45% complete.

Release
During E3 2011, French game site Play3-live.com claims that Capcom gave a release day of November 25, 2011 for Europeans, however, Capcom confirmed the wordwide release in March 2012.

A special edition of the game includes a steel cover for the game, 8 exclusive weapons and one alternate costume for Lupo, FourEyes, Bertha, Specter, Vector and Beltway.

If you pre-order the game at GameStop, BestBuy or Amazon.com, you will receive two DLC weapons different for each retailer.

Trivia

 * Originally shown as having four playable characters, that number was later increased to six.
 * According to Kawata, there are currently discussions on introducing brand-new B.O.W.s into the game.
 * In the demo, signs written on walls written in blood are seen around (often asking for HELP), this was already in the beta version of the original Resident Evil (1996), but for unknown reasons, blood signs were cut from the final product.
 * The North American PC version of the game will be sold exclusively as a digital download.