Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is an upcoming 2011 survival horror third-person shooter video game with online playability for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 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. The game is currently scheduled for a release in late 2011.

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 either an officer of the Umbrella Security Service, part of the Umbrella Corporation, or a member of the Spec Ops, part of the United States government. Both have vastly different objectives, 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. Members of the Spec Ops on the other hand, are tasked with exposing the actions of Umbrella Corporation 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 and Leon S. Kennedy.

Gameplay
The Game has you take 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 reprocussions on series canon, such as causing the death of Leon S. Kennedy during the course of the game.

A multiplayer mode is confirmed, which pits the USS against the US Government, with the latter looking to uncover the situation Umbrella is attempting to hide.

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.

Triva
Two confirmed enemies, based on footage from the March 30 teaser, are the zombie and T-103 Tyrant.
 * According to Kawata, there are currently discussions on introducing brand-new B.O.W.s into the game.