With Resident Evil Requiem already breaking sales records for Japanese gaming giant Capcom, selling over 5 million copies in just a few days of release. While Capcom works on additional entries in the Monster Hunter series and new series like Pragmata, the studio is also reportedly ramping up production on multiple Resi games including a new Resident Evil 1 Remake.
Capcom originally remade the original Resident Evil game in 2002 for the Nintendo GameCube, just six years after the series’ debut. Since then, the Resi Remake has been praised as the de facto survival horror game, but Capcom may be revisiting the original story for a brand-new remake with the series’ now-modern gameplay conventions.
Claimed by popular survival horror game leaker Dusk Golem, Capcom is reportedly working on a Resident Evil 1 re-remake. Reportedly in early production, the remake will take players back to the original Spencer Mansion with over-the-shoulder gameplay.
“RE:1 is just recently entering development, so it’s likely anywhere from 4-7 years out from releasing, presuming it comes out at all since it’s in early development & RE games get scrapped all the time,” the leaker claimed.
Alongside another remake of Resident Evil 1, Dusk Golem claimed that Capcom is also working on a remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, a long-requested project by fans. Dusk Golem claims that the assets for Code Veronica’s replica of the Spencer Mansion will be re-used for the remake of the original game in an ironic reversal.
Alongside the two remakes, the leaker explained that Resident Evil Requiem’s expected DLC is currently “late in development”. While Capcom has not confirmed any DLC for the game, every mainline Resi game since 7 has received some form of story expansion or additional mode. Resident Evil 4 Remake even included the PS2 expansion Separate Ways as a paid DLC.
The leaker claimed that one of the game’s story DLCs will be Leon focused with a “DLC bonus mode… that was cut out of the final game”. While not mentioned by the leaker, this could be some form of Mercenaries mode that reuses some of the game’s characters such as Leon, Zeno, Hunk, and Tofu for the series’ classic score-based horde mode.
Considering the rampant success of the Resident Evil series following the release of Resident Evil 7 in 2017, it’s unsurprising to see Capcom’s push to remake even more games in the series. While many are very protective over the original game and its 2002 remake, many have asked for a third-person adaptation of the game since the release of Resident Evil 2 Remake in 2019.
Alongside the additional remakes in development, Capcom is reportedly working on new ports of its existing remake trilogy (2, 3 and 4) to Nintendo Switch 2. Following the platform’s brilliant ports of Resident Evil 7, Village and Requiem, it only makes sense to bring the remaining games to Nintendo’s popular new handheld.
