Resident Evil Village is allegedly the longest RE Engine game
Players allegedly shouldn’t worry about the next Resident Evil being too short.
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What you need to know
Resident Evil Villageis the eighth mainline entry in Capcom’s long-running survival-horror franchise. There’s a still lot we don’t know but according to an individual with a great track record, Resident Evil Village might be longer than players are expecting.
Aesthetic Gamer aka Dusk Golemhas a history of sharing accurate details on upcoming Resident Evil games. Months before thereveal of Resident Evil Village, they accurately shared that it would be a first-person game starring Ethan and Chris, while taking place in a winter village that has werewolf-like beastmen.
Now, they’ve commented on the length of Resident Evil Village, saying that “if you’re worried about really short RE games, you don’t need to.“They addedthat “RE8 will be the longest RE Engine game to date, & without saying too much the other stuff coming up should follow a similar trend.”
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5 and Resident Evil 3 were all developed using the RE Engine. While none of them were exceptionally long games, this does mean that Resident Evil Village would be at least several hours long.
We’ll be sure to provide further updates as Capcom releases additional information. Resident Evil Village is a next generation-only game and is in development for theXbox Series X, PC andPS5. It’s slated to release at some point in 2021.
A swamp of horror
In this first-person entry in the Resident Evil series, you play as Ethan Winters, who is looking for his missing wife. His journeys bring him to the Baker mansion, where he must fight off a whole host of horrors.
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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.
