Here's the First Footage of Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot, a New Arcade Version of Capcom's Classic — and a Test Cabinet Is Available Now in the UK

There's a caller mentation of Resident Evil 2 made specifically for arcades, and an aboriginal mentation of it is already playable astatine Namco Funscape successful the UK.

Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot, arsenic this on-rails lightgun iteration is known, is the merchandise of a collaboration betwixt Bandai Namco and Capcom to make a caller arcade iteration of the latter's endurance fearfulness classic.

IGN has visited Namco Funscape successful Romford, north-east London, and gone hands-on with Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot ourselves — arsenic you tin spot successful our archetypal footage above.

In it, we tin spot that Dead Shot has divided Resident Evil 2's communicative into 5 episodes, with the archetypal 2 already unlocked. It's believed that this arcade furniture has been installed wrong Namco Funscape for testing, with aboriginal bugs ironed retired aft nationalist play.

Dead Shot's archetypal occurrence is its prologue, with a 2nd occurrence titled "Hunted". Loading up the prologue, the crippled past introduces Resident Evil 2's mounting to players: "Leon and Claire find 1 different connected the streets of Raccoon City. Chased by zombies, they evacuate to the constabulary section lone to observe further horrors within."

As you prime your episode, a zombified manus shatters done the screen, pulling you (and your co-op partner) in.

The opening conception sees Leon and Claire warring their mode into the Raccoon City Police Department, past zombie cops and zombie dogs. The game's visuals look to beryllium based connected Capcom's 2019 Resident Evil 2 Remake.

Once wrong the building, the brace present themselves to each different earlier much zombie cops interrupt the party. Still, there's clip for a small spot of exposition from just-about-still-alive bull Marvin Branagh, earlier the enactment continues.

As with different arcade lightgun games, you'll request to constituent the weapon distant from the surface and propulsion the trigger to reload. You'll automatically reload erstwhile you tally retired of bullets, but manual reloading is faster.

It's unclear however agelong Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot volition stay playable astatine Namco Funscape, but if you're headed down successful the adjacent aboriginal look retired for the neon red-lit furniture with images of Leon, Claire and Ada Wong.

It's intriguing to spot the Resident Evil bid featuring Raccoon City present erstwhile again, up of the franchise's 30th day adjacent year, and the motorboat of Resident Evil: Requiem.

Capcom has teased that Requiem volition spot a instrumentality to the "overarching narrative" of Resident Evil begun 30 years ago, and an aboriginal trailer has already featured the reappearance of the RCPD — albeit aft its aboriginal demolition successful Resident Evil 3. (Fans are besides definite Leon volition appear, though for now, Capcom is keeping schtum.)

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social