Resident Evil 5 Details Emerge News

Following one of the more impressive trailers to emerge from E3, a recent Famitsu interview has revealed the first concise details on Capcom's Resident Evil 5.

Leading the project, Jun Takeuchi follows his directorial duties on Onimusha and producer role with Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, whilst Kenji Inafune oversees the development.

Confirming that Chris Redfield will return as the main character, Famitsu reveals that he's working for a group known as BSAA following his European investigations into Umbrella Corp. and adventures on Rockfort Island and the Antarctica. Something has occurred in the desert setting (rumoured to be an African country) and the BSAA have sent Redfield to investigate. The possessed human characters from the trailer will provide the new threat, although these are neither zombie nor ganado.

Takeuchi-san teases that the game will follow the Resident Evil formula by including a second playable character, but only adds that this will be a female character in a major role. Thankfully, there's not too long to wait as she'll make an appearance in the full-length trailer appearing on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store on July 27th.

Promising a very big surprise in terms of gameplay and the storyline, Takeuchi-san claims that anybody who felt Resident Evil 5 looked like its predecessor in the E3 trailer will be left with a very different opinion following the next.

With a wave of information after months and months of eerie silence, all of the good news comes at the cost of Takeuchi-san's bombshell... Resident Evil 5 will not be released "before 2008" and "no later than 2010"!