Resident Evil 9 Revealed at Summer Game Fest After Early Fake-Out

After a false earlier in Summer game festival Friday, Resident Evil Requiem, or Resident Evil 9, was shown for the first time.

The new title is the first main entrance since Capcom published Resident Evil Village in 2021, and is supposed to be the faithful of the Leon Kennedy series. In the trailer, the only person we saw was a character named Grace Ashcroft, who works for the FBI and seems to have links with Raccoon City.

For the hardest fans Resident Evil, the name of Ashcroft will ring a bell. Alyssa Ashcroft was one of the survivors of the online title only, Resident of the evil epidemic For the PS2. Alyssa was a journalist trapped in Raccoon City during the events of Resident Evil 2And she, as well as other survivors, had to escape the city before destroying it.

Grace is the daughter of Alyssa, and in the trailer, she will visit the Remwood hotel, where Alyssa was murdered. Later in the trailer, images of what seems to be the remains of a destroyed raccoon city is shown, so it seems that Resident Evil 9 will return to the place where the series has started.

Leon’s return is a big problem for the series, which has made a part of his best games With him in the main role (or co-star). He first presented himself as a recruit cop in Resident Evil 2, which relied on the success of the original game with more history and improved monsters and a level design.

He appeared again in Resident Evil 4, who took the series in a new direction by introducing an excessive perspective of shoulders, instead of the static camera angles and usual reservoir controls. Leon was also one of the many protagonists playable by Resident Evil 6, a game that seemed to forget its horror of survival roots. We are not talking about that one.

But the Remake 2019 from Resident Evil 2 It was an excellent return to form, bringing the gameplay of RE4 and much better graphics to a favorite entrance to fans. THE Remake re4 was a similar success.

Resident Evil Requiem should abandon on February 27, 2026, for consoles in the PC, PS5 and Xbox series, but we hope to get their hands on it this weekend. If you want to catch up with Resident Evil Resident games, Capcom has a sale This essentially includes all the games, including village and the three remakes.