Resident Evil Survival Unit Confirms Some Familiar Boss Characters

Capcom has dropped a caller cinematic trailer for its upcoming mobile strategy game, Resident Evil Survival Unit, which appears to corroborate an array of acquainted enemies you'll person to fight.

Though a polished, flamboyant, and unashamedly bombastic showing of everything the Resident Evil bid has travel to correspond to millions of fans each implicit the world, the cinematic trailer is precisely that — cinematic. Which means it doesn't springiness america a amended knowing of systems underpinning the existent gameplay, unfortunately.

Nonetheless, Capcom's acceptable for you to registry your interest, truthful if you similar what you spot — and hear; there's a precise jazzy taxable tune from Queen Bee — caput connected implicit to the App Store.

The upcoming strategy crippled spin-off for smartphones was fixed a due uncover past month, confirming it's acceptable successful a parallel beingness wherever you signifier a squad of characters from the series' biggest stars to instrumentality connected zombies and monsters. Today, that roster present looks to see Mr X, Nemesis and... crocodiles.

Co-developed by Aniplex and Joycity, gameplay sees you gathering up a familiar-looking mansion arsenic your base, wherever your characters volition unrecorded and interact. You'll past caput retired onto endurance missions against acquainted Resident Evil foes, with Aniplex promising a "global multiplayer experience."

As for the different large Resident Evil-flavored taster we got earlier successful the year? Resident Evil Requiem is coming connected February 27, 2026. The adjacent mainline introduction successful the Resident Evil series, it is directed by Resident Evil 7 manager Koshi Nakanishi and volition diagnostic a instrumentality to the series' 30-year-old "overarching narrative."

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