Capcom Finally Confirms Leon S. Kennedy Is In Resident Evil Requiem | The Game Awards 2025 - IGN

After months of speculation and a revealing leak earlier this week, Capcom has finally, officially confirmed what we each knew: Leon S. Kennedy is successful Resident Evil Requiem, and he's present to footwear butt.

Tonight, astatine The Game Awards 2025, a caller trailer for Resident Evil Requiem saw Leon afloat revealed, swinging into enactment arsenic the now-grizzled seasoned zombie combatant we each cognize and love.

We learned what galore of america had expected, that Leon volition diagnostic arsenic 1 of 2 playable characters, alongside the antecedently announced Grace Ashcroft. While Grace's run focuses connected endurance horror, Leon's abstracted antics volition absorption connected action.

Earlier this week, the uncover of caller Resident Evil: Requiem screen creation featuring Leon yet enactment to furniture 1 of this year's biggest gaming mysteries — thing developer Capcom has itself refused to code — conscionable days up of Requiem's quality tonight.

Rumors person persisted for months implicit Leon's engagement successful Resident Evil: Requiem, with Capcom specifically declining to reply IGN's questions implicit the quality backmost astatine Gamescom successful August. The game's developers person adjacent suggested that Leon would beryllium a mediocre acceptable arsenic a protagonist for the game's quieter sections arsenic helium is present excessively grizzled to beryllium scared. But done each of this, Capcom near itself with conscionable capable wiggle country for Leon to inactive beryllium lurking determination — presumably during Requiem's much action-packed sequences.

Despite Leon's engagement present being confirmed, Requiem whitethorn inactive person secrets near successful store. There was nary notation contiguous of a imaginable 3rd playable quality — thing raised earlier this week by a GameStop listing that referenced Rosemary Winters.

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