The “another factor” revealed at this yr’s Summer time Sport Fest was a teaser trailer for the most recent sport within the Resident Evil collection — Resident Evil 9, or Resident Evil: Requiem. The trailer drops a number of particulars in regards to the sport’s characters and setting, together with that the collection 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 collection producer Jun Takeuchi initially mentioned that the subsequent sport within the collection would wish 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 collection 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 sport. It additionally contains extra visuals exhibiting what’s left of Raccoon Metropolis after it was nuked on the finish of Resident Evil 3. The collection has so far not returned to the zombified city exterior of remakes and remixes of video games Resident Evils 1-3.