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    Capcom's Resident Evil (or Biohazard in Japan) series continues to draw in players with its stories of hideous mutations and the pharmaceutical company Umbrella Inc. It is Capcom's best-selling franchise in terms of software sales.

    We're Probably Heading to China for Resident Evil 6

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    Edited By patrickklepek
    Hey, Capcom, if you feel like making a remake of Resident Evil 2, I'm 100% behind you.
    Hey, Capcom, if you feel like making a remake of Resident Evil 2, I'm 100% behind you.

    Resident Evil 6 ranks as one of Capcom’s worst kept secrets.

    Whatever criticism Resident Evil 5 had to ride out related to its presentations of race and design decisions, the game sold just fine, which means Resident Evil 6 is on the way...eventually.

    PlayStation focused site The Silent Chief uncovered two pieces of recent evidence regarding it, including actress Milla Jovovich getting a humorous denial from Capcom employees on the set of the latest film, Resident Evil: Retribution, and a voice actress listing her work on the project.

    Actress Wendy Mok’s EWPACTS profile includes her having contributed to the recently resurrected True Crime Hong Kong, Dead Island, and worked on Resident Evil 6 as a “Chinese villager/zombie.”

    What “Chinese villager/zombie” means for Resident Evil 6 remains to be seen. Resident Evil as a series started moving away from zombies with Resident Evil 4, but perhaps we’ll see a return to form with the next game. I wouldn’t mind seeing Resident Evil make a return to its scarier roots. [insert crimson head flashback]

    Or they could just release the long-cancelled Resident Evil 1.5 already. Man.

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    #1  Edited By patrickklepek
    Hey, Capcom, if you feel like making a remake of Resident Evil 2, I'm 100% behind you.
    Hey, Capcom, if you feel like making a remake of Resident Evil 2, I'm 100% behind you.

    Resident Evil 6 ranks as one of Capcom’s worst kept secrets.

    Whatever criticism Resident Evil 5 had to ride out related to its presentations of race and design decisions, the game sold just fine, which means Resident Evil 6 is on the way...eventually.

    PlayStation focused site The Silent Chief uncovered two pieces of recent evidence regarding it, including actress Milla Jovovich getting a humorous denial from Capcom employees on the set of the latest film, Resident Evil: Retribution, and a voice actress listing her work on the project.

    Actress Wendy Mok’s EWPACTS profile includes her having contributed to the recently resurrected True Crime Hong Kong, Dead Island, and worked on Resident Evil 6 as a “Chinese villager/zombie.”

    What “Chinese villager/zombie” means for Resident Evil 6 remains to be seen. Resident Evil as a series started moving away from zombies with Resident Evil 4, but perhaps we’ll see a return to form with the next game. I wouldn’t mind seeing Resident Evil make a return to its scarier roots. [insert crimson head flashback]

    Or they could just release the long-cancelled Resident Evil 1.5 already. Man.

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    #2  Edited By Cincaid

    Great, I love RE.

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    #3  Edited By freaksaus

    For a moment I thought GiantBomb was going to China to watch RE6.

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    #4  Edited By Buscemi

    Great!

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    #5  Edited By Vinny_Says

    and the racism continues...

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    #6  Edited By zDarkHerald

    I would like to see them do something fresh with the series for 6 rather than just copying the structure of 4 again.

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    #7  Edited By John-Luke

    This is what's on the cover of this month's issue of Game Informer, isn't it? IT HAS TO BE!

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    #8  Edited By snap

    Can't wait. I actually hope they keep the tank controls, they're just part of the series and getting rid of them would mean that Capcom wants to make it even more like and other third person shooter. However, I really hope PlayStation-Move controls are part of the package - the Wii-Mote was amazing in RE4 and playing RE5 with Move was a great experience as well.

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    #9  Edited By napalm

    Now that I think about it, I almost wish that fake Tokyo Game Show '11 Resident Evil 6 trailer was true. The outbreak becomes so massive that it swallows the entire world. Regardless, I am super interested in what Capcom is doing with 6. 4 was amazing, 5 was alright, but stumbled a bit, especially with the later story elements, "CHRRRIIIISSSS!", and... boulder... punching. Please, no boulder punching. And please, just retcon 5 and make it so it was a Wesker clone they destroyed.

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    #10  Edited By SomeJerk

    Hell yea. I liked RE5 despite the controls, still a f i n e fine game.
     
    Just wonder what in the world 6 is going to cover and when it will take place. As long as there's co-op!

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    #11  Edited By delta_ass

    I hope you're able to move and shoot at the same time in this one.

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    #12  Edited By HadesTimes

    That would be crazy.

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    #13  Edited By Jimjamjaha

    Judging by the screenshot I take it you meant 2 if so then I agree whole heartedly.

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    #14  Edited By mbr2

    @Vinny_Says said:

    and the racism continues...

    Is this a novelty account or just accidental irony? :D

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    I loved Resident Evil 5.

    Dude, four player RE. You play as Chris, Claire, Jill and Leon.

    I got to add that I love that Japan is not afraid to slap a big number on the franchise. Western series always try to avoid it to make their games appear newer and fresher, but the addition of a 6 or a 13 on a game just reminds me of its relevance as a part of gaming history. I'd rather Silent Hill Downpour was called Silent Hill 8, I'd rather the lineage was clear rather than avoided.

    Final Fantasy has been around almost 25 years. Celebrate that fact, don't come up with crazy subtitles.

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    I really hope they think the next one through. Resident Evil 5 disappoints me to no end.  It sure looked pretty.... and thats just about all the good things I can say about that game.

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    #17  Edited By MiniPato

    @Vinny_Says said:

    and the racism continues...

    Why? Cause there's gonna be Chinese not-zombies there?

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    #18  Edited By WickedCobra03

    Only a true racist would make a news story about another Resident Evil. Thanks Patrick, you racist!

    On a more serious note, I am excited for this game, I didn't love RE5 due to it just being kind of bland, and the co-op was cool, but playing that game alone was kind of a bummer. I really hope they do some new stuff in RE6, but kind of pull the story back to the days where the games were actually creepy in 1,2 and 3; rather than more fantastical in 4 and 5.

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    #19  Edited By Kael

    First Warcraft goes to China with Mists of Pandaria, then Assassin's Creed Revelations' epilogue movie "Embers" shows Ezio almost literally passing the torch to a new Chinese assassin who then goes back to China to reestablish the brotherhood there, and now there's a good chance Resident Evil is going to China next, too! 2012 is already looking to be a China-themed year, isn't it? I'm all for it. :D

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    #20  Edited By AwesomeAquaman

    Why would anyone think RE is racist?

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    #21  Edited By N2NOther

    Resident Evil 5 is the only main story RE game I couldn't be arsed to finish. That game was boring and controlled terribly. I am hopeful that 6 will turn it around.

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    #22  Edited By gramblor

    Next to all of my dreams not coming true, Resident Evil 5 was the biggest disappointment of my life.

    However, I remain reservedly interested in RE 6.

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    #23  Edited By Loopah

    Excited for this game. I still need to finish RE5 =/

    Sooo many games out right now.

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    #24  Edited By Monk

    It makes me happy that Patrick mentioned Crimson Heads.

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    #25  Edited By onan

    I think a game made by a Japanese company about killing Chinese people is much more offensive than what they did with RE5, specifically because of their history. It's like a German developer making a game about killing Jewish zombies. It's inappropriate.

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    #26  Edited By vortextk

    I went to click that picture to see it in full resolution, it didn't get any bigger, then realized oh my god that might be or be close to full resolution.

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    #27  Edited By leejunfan83

    no thanks the series fell off after 2 Japan's fall from grace is sad to see Metal Gear Final Fantasy Resident Evil and Street Fighter need to be killed off

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    #28  Edited By Just_Endless

    @Kael: If the next AC game is not in the present, or comes out post-2012, they will have missed the fictional deadline they set for themselves.

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    #29  Edited By Karl_Boss

    颜色我兴奋

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    #30  Edited By MormonWarrior

    @leejunfan83 said:

    no thanks the series fell off after 2 Japan's fall from grace is sad to see Metal Gear Final Fantasy Resident Evil and Street Fighter need to be killed off

    I only started liking RE with RE4 and thought RE5 was pretty good...not the masterpiece 4 was but I found the other games boring and unplayable. MGS4 was my favorite gameplay-wise and I've enjoyed each installment more than the last, and Super Street Fighter IV is the most I've liked a Street Fighter game. I'd only agree on Final Fantasy - the last one I really loved was IX. X was good but not really my thing and more so with XII. XIII just looks like a mess.

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    #31  Edited By NegativeCero

    Zombie Pandas. Make it happen.

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    #32  Edited By FunExplosions

    The important question is, by what degree will they amplify the amount of muscles in this game.

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    #33  Edited By Sooperspy

    So how long before Capcom realizes killing only Asians in China is racist and put white and black people in it?

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    #34  Edited By sissylion

    @AwesomeAquaman said:

    Why would anyone think RE is racist?

    Because the first two acts of RE4 depict Spaniards as continuing to live in the Dark Ages, and RE5 literally has spear-shaking Africans.

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    #35  Edited By Shaka999

    I thought they were going to reboot the franchise?

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    #36  Edited By AuthenticM

    I want REmake 2, goddamnit!

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    #37  Edited By Curufinwe

    Brad and Vinny should play REmake for the next ER.

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    @Curufinwe said:

    Brad and Vinny should play REmake for the next ER.

    Wouldn't be a very long Endurance Run.

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    #39  Edited By gamma_male

    @AwesomeAquaman: RE5's depiction of Africans as mindless savages (in one scene ravaging a white women) didn't go down well. More a lack of cultural sensitivity than out and out racism but still, a global company should probably try to be a bit more careful.

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    #40  Edited By Alexandruxx

    They killed whites and blacks. Now it's time to kill some asians.

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    #41  Edited By ThePhantomnaut

    @Alexandruxx said:

    They killed whites and blacks. Now it's time to kill some asians.

    Capcom hates everybody! No more racial specific discrimination! Yay!

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    #42  Edited By McGhee

    I look forward to the streams of douche bags crying about racism.

    I also look forward to not playing RE6 because these games are antiquated junk and need to die.

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    #43  Edited By turbo_toaster

    It's now that I realize I haven't enjoyed a Resident Evil game since 3, 4 was fun but superficially so. The story for the first was such a slow, incremental kind of disturbing I've just come to find the new ones to be incredibly silly. Especially whatever the fuck it was they did to Wesker. Ugh.

    RE is serious business in my household. *Sigh*

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    #44  Edited By DiscoDuck8k

    Use characters that haven't been given much attention (Rebecca Chambers and Barry Burton come to mind), add zombies to bring back some element of horror, remove forced co-op (no AI partner during solo play). 
     
    They really don't need to do much for this to have a chance, the problem is that Capcom is usually too busy ignoring criticism or running off in the complete opposite direction.

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    #45  Edited By Superkenon

    @gamma_male said:

    @AwesomeAquaman: RE5's depiction of Africans as mindless savages (in one scene ravaging a white women) didn't go down well. More a lack of cultural sensitivity than out and out racism but still, a global company should probably try to be a bit more careful.

    Mindless savages indeed. You know, like zombies or something.

    There wasn't anything in RE5 that wasn't in the games prior, especially RE4, so I always thought it was funny that it was controversial. I guess the real lesson for Capcom is to not set their games in locations where whites aren't the indigenous people.

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    #46  Edited By benjamimmy
    @sissylion said:

    @AwesomeAquaman said:

    Why would anyone think RE is racist?

    Because the first two acts of RE4 depict Spaniards as continuing to live in the Dark Ages, and RE5 literally has spear-shaking Africans.

    But, there are still tribes in Africa and in other parts of the world that do wield spears and such whilst wearing tribal clothing and just generally acting like how you'd expect tribes would. So it's not really racist to make them seem that way, when some actually are. I guess actually shooting them may be a little, but people make it racist by saying so. There are loads of people who didn't think it was racist at all, myself included. News people just want to make a big deal out of a little thing and create dumb a controversy.

    I personally think the whole racism thing is silly. I mean, MW3 has a level in Africa where you are shooting nothing BUT black people with not one white person in sight except for your squad, yet nobody complains about that? I really don't get it. I don't find it racist, but after completing that level, I couldn't help being reminded about RE5 so I don't understand why people say nothing about this, when it's the same situation? Oh well... It's just the internet I suppose.
     
    Anyways, yay for RE6!
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    #47  Edited By metalgearstl

    I still dont get how people saw that as racist. It takes place in Africa...hence Africans are there. Not like it was a huge metropolis like city it was a shitty little village so of course they have spears and what not. Not like they had them eating from buckets of chicken and eating watermelon or any racial stereotypes they were just people that live in Africa. People like to scream 'racist!' at things even though they aren't and they weren't even upset by it to begin with. And if it upsets you that the black people in Africa were turned into zombies and you have to kill them...its a fucking video game...dont fucking play it then. Resident Evil 5 kinda killed my interest in the series though. I like the 4 and 5 style but that's not Resident Evil to me. Maybe keep that type of style going with the characters that are already involved and start a side series that plays more like the old ones and more survival and not run and gun. I don't like how everyone went from being a rookie cop or swat team type of dude and now they are almost super hero like. Give me some scared shit less dude with a gun with one clip and a green herb and let me try and survive.

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    #48  Edited By Curufinwe

    @gamma_male said:

    @AwesomeAquaman: RE5's depiction of Africans as mindless savages (in one scene ravaging a white women) didn't go down well. More a lack of cultural sensitivity than out and out racism but still, a global company should probably try to be a bit more careful.

    The infected villager who dragged the white woman away in that scene was not even black, as was infamously claimed by Eurogamer.

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    #49  Edited By Curufinwe

    @GetEveryone said:

    @Curufinwe said:

    Brad and Vinny should play REmake for the next ER.

    Wouldn't be a very long Endurance Run.

    Maybe not, but it would be awesome. Vinny + Lisa Trevor would be magic.

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    #50  Edited By fox01313

    With any latent hostility between Japan & China, this might be a bad pick. Plus if a highly concentrated population of people (ie. China, India, etc.) got turned into zombies they'd probably run out of food quickly as the population would be easy pickings being so numerous. I will say that if the controls from the previous RE5 game is in this one, I'll definitely pass as it felt like moving a character was akin to trying to steer a towed Lincoln/Cadillac upside down over a field of boulders.

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