Grave Gamer News & Views — resident evil 6

Pictured: Lickitung protecting its territory from Poke-poaching.

Every single one of my anticipated releases for this year have taken a distant backseat.  In a different car.

Set in 2008, Resident Evil 6, a game that for all intents and purposes came right the hell out of nowhere, depicts a world caught beneath the stretching shadow of biological terrorism.  Hoping to alleviate this threat, U.S. President Graham looks to out all of the insidious details behind the disaster that was Raccoon City.  The President does indeed raise bio-terror awareness, but only by becoming a monstrous victim of a terrorist attack, demonstrated before the American people.

Resident Evil 6 has been confirmed straight from the horse’s mouth.

Capcom announced today the sixth main installment of the series will span the globe, feature co-op gameplay, have you in the blood-caked shoes of series mainstays Leon S. Kennedy and Chris Redfield – as well as new characters – and provide a unique blend of action and terror that the developers are dubbing “dramatic horror.”

When’s this happening, you ask?  Expect Xbox 360 and PS3 releases November 20th, 2012 with a PC version soon to follow.

Good goddamn, it’s a great year to be a Resident Evil fan.  I’ll have the announcement trailer and impressions up later in the day.

Is it the End of All Things or Just Resident Evil 6?

At first glance, I would’ve figured these “tags” were the work of an artistic doomsdayer being a total humanitarian and offering us a cryptic warning of a not-so-optimistic future.

But like with all things in life, my first guess should’ve been Resident Evil.

The prospect of Resident Evil 6 has been popping up in all sorts of unlikely places, most rumors snowballing and gaining momentum after fan interest was piqued at the supposed TGS reveal that didn’t happen last year.  From voice actors attesting to the game’s existence to false alarms like the initial Last of Us teaser sent before the VGA’s actually being RE6, I’ve been hesitant to cling to any such reports.

Yet Capcom seems to have been caught red handed.

An intrepid sleuth decided to contact Primesight, the advertising company responsible for the billboard above, after locating a “tag” (which, after closer inspection, turned out to be a print) in London.  Capcom refused to comment on the appearance of the “No Hope Left” tags, but Primesight was more forthcoming and admitted their client was none other than the Japanese game publisher themselves.

I love me some viral marketing, and I love me some Resident Evil even more.  Operation Raccoon City received a spot of the viral but not on such an (appropriately) widespread scale.  There’s even a collection of the ominous tags along with believably unsettling videos to be seen at NoHopeLeft.com.

What’s more, the viral campaign keeps pointing at a singular date: 1/19/12.  Be sure to hear more on this tomorrow, folks.