Resident Evil Requiem is scheduled to arrive on PS5 early next year, and when it does, you'll be able to freely swap between first- and third-person camera modes.
You can choose whether to harken back to some of the older entries in Capcom's series with the third-person view, or opt for the first-person perspective adopted by more recent games.
Speaking of which, it was Resident Evil 7: Biohazard that took the series into first-person, and it really heightened the horror and the tension of that experience.
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In fact, director Koshi Nakanishi (speaking to GamesRadar) thinks it made the game "possibly too scary" and dissuaded players from continuing to play.
Looking back at Resident Evil 7’s first person perspective, I implemented that as a way to make it more immersive and more scary than ever before, which I think most you know media and players agreed it was an incredibly scary game, but it was possibly too scary. I think some people couldn’t handle it, and either couldn’t finish or didn’t even start it.
And that’s something that I look back on thinking that, you know, I want to make sure that people can enjoy this game. So if you started the game off in first person perspective, and you’re finding it’s too much, then third person is almost a way to step slightly back from that level of horror and make it slightly easier to deal with by having the character on screen as a kind of Avatar of yourself.
So, we basically have RE7 to thank for the inclusion of a third-person camera in Requiem.
Resident Evil Village was also first-person by default, but a post-release update implemented a third-person option as well.
In our hands-on preview of Requiem, we talk about the differences between the two perspectives and how they affect the feel of the survival horror adventure.