Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles Hits This Winter; Wii Also Getting Resident Evil, RE Zero Ports

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As expected, Capcom today officially announced Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. The sequel to Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, the Wii light-gun shooter hits this winter, revisiting the events of Resident Evil 2 and other games.

Capcom also revealed that Wii ports of the more traditional Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero entries are coming to North America under the Resident Evil "Classics" line. Both releases are based on the GameCube versions, with added motion controls.

Both of the survival horror ports are slated to arrive later this year, at $29.99 a piece.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    March 12, 2009 9:08 AM

    Wasn't Umbrella Chronicles basically RE0? I even have Umbrella Chronicles but didn't make it far because it was so much like RE0 but I don't like on-rails shooters.

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      March 12, 2009 9:09 AM

      It recreated various RE games, including Zero and the first.

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        March 12, 2009 9:09 AM

        There was also some original content in there, towards the end.

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          March 12, 2009 9:50 AM

          Actually there was a lot of original content, and through the whole game.

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      March 12, 2009 9:22 AM

      Yeah, it was RE0, RE, and a new original segment at the end. This one will probably take in Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil 3 and RE2, which was said, along with original content.

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      March 12, 2009 9:49 AM

      It's a smooshed version of RE0, RE1, and RE3 and a new chapter - with new content the whole way through, mostly involving what Wesker was doing behind the scenes at each point. Most of the RE3 stuff was from the RE:Outbreak point of view. There was also a ton of prose content that could be unlocked that made sense from the zangy plots of the various games, connecting them better.

      This isn't a sequel to RE:UC, Capcom made that pretty clear in the famitsu article at least. Umbrella isn't the main enemy in Darkside.

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        March 12, 2009 10:00 AM

        Today's press release explicitly refers to Darkside as "the sequel to the highly successful Wii title Resident Evil®: The Umbrella Chronicles."

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