Resident Evil fan favourite Barry Burton will make his triumphant return in the forthcoming Resident Evil Revelations 2 on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. Capcom has deployed a brand new cinematic trailer for its upcoming episodic escapade, confirming the popular character’s inclusion. The bearded hero of ‘Master of Unlocking’ fame was rumoured to be part of the roster last month.
He’ll be accompanied by a mysterious youngster named Natalia Korda, who’s able to sense enemies and hidden items. You’ll be able to alternate between the two stars, as you go in search of the protagonist’s daughter, Moira Burton. Of course, you’ll be playing as the aforementioned offspring as well, as part of the story will focus upon her struggles alongside series veteran Claire Redfield. It wouldn’t be Resident Evil without a convoluted story, huh?
Even more complicated than the plot, however, is the release structure. The first episode will debut on 17th February in North America and 18th February in Europe. Subsequent instalments will then deploy every week from there until 10th March in North America and 11th March in Europe. You’ll be able to buy each piece of the story individually for £4.99 / $5.99, or a full Season Pass for the slightly more expensive sum of £19.99 / $24.99.
Fortunately, picking up the Season Pass will earn you access to some bonus bits and bobs, including two additional spin-off episodes starring Moira Burton and Natalia Korda, as well as a new Raid character. If that’s not enough, a retail release will deploy on 10th March in North America and 13th March in Europe, and will include some bonus costumes, throwback Raid stages, and a playable Albert Wesker.
Are you keeping up? We sincerely hope so, otherwise we’ll be turning you into a Jill sandwich. Seriously, though, we rather enjoyed the original Resident Evil Revelations, so we’re looking forward to this. Whether this weird release model will work out, though, remains to be seen.
[source youtube.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Looking forward to the retail release, I thought Revelations 1 was great so hopefully Capcom doesn't f**k this up.
Still confused as to why they didn't try to build a user base on the 3DS seeing as the first game sold well on it and the console has the biggest install base much larger then when the first game came out, Capcom logic smh.
I'd rather go retail but it all depends on what price it's going to be, I'm not going to pay 15 extra quid just for "throwback stages" and Wesker after all.
@Jazzer94 3DS outsold all other platforms. But I think what it is, is once you port to PS/Xbox, you can spread it around five platforms relatively easily.
While it will be nice playing the sequel on PS4, it felt strangely at home on the handheld. I played using gyro for aim, and I was a beast at it believe me. I can understand the sequel landing on multiple platforms, but to skip 3DS outright when it was the highest selling version just boggles my mind. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they are releasing episodes.
@JaxonH
Not really an excuse as Moon Chronicles was also aiming for episodes and Mario Golf had a season pass.
The thing is that knowing Capcom, they would try to make a game card for every episode.
@sinalefa Hmm, good point. I always try to give these companies the benefit of the doubt but, it seems like there's just no good reason for them to skip the 3DS doesn't it. As a Nintendo gamer I'm used to that sort of treatment though.
Well, it may not of been my choice platform for this particular game, but this is why I own multiple consoles.
Since the first RE: Revelations was average, at best & complete crap at it's worst......my expectations for this game are quite low.
Capcom is destroying this franchise. Just give us the RE Remake & get to remaking RE2.
RE5, RE6, Raccoon City, & Revelations have shown Capcom has no cohesive vision for this series & it needs a complete reboot.
@JaxonH The game really impressed me on 3DS, seemed as if Capcom actually put a lot of effort which is why it is a shame they're just throwing it away I mean they could grow it like MH series on 3DS. Regardless I'll get it on PS3 and enjoy it.
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