The “another factor” revealed at this yr’s Summer season Recreation Fest was a teaser trailer for the newest sport within the Resident Evil sequence — Resident Evil 9, or Resident Evil: Requiem. The trailer drops a number of particulars in regards to the sport’s characters and setting, together with that the sequence will apparently return to the ill-fated Raccoon Metropolis, because the gutted stays of its police station make an look within the trailer. The sport is about to launch on February 27, 2026.
Capcom and sequence producer Jun Takeuchi initially stated that the following sport within the sequence would want extra time to be revealed — however “extra time” apparently meant solely 20 extra minutes, because the reveal trailer dropped on the finish of the present. The cinematic trailer follows an FBI agent named Grace, who’s investigating a sequence of mysterious deaths, together with her mom’s — her mom being Resident Evil Outbreak’s red-suited reporter, Alyssa Ashcroft.
The trailer doesn’t reveal a lot else, besides the sport’s launch date and that it launches on PC and consoles, and that it’s a single-player sport. It additionally contains extra visuals displaying what’s left of Raccoon Metropolis after it was nuked on the finish of Resident Evil 3. The sequence has to date not returned to the zombified city outdoors of remakes and remixes of video games Resident Evils 1-3.
