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Capcom Wants You to Talk About ‘Resident Evil: Revelations 2’
When Capcom revealed Resident Evil: Revelations 2, a decidedly more survival horror take on the franchise that first coined the term back in 1996, most fans were pleased. The game is an attempt to return the series to the genre it once pioneered, but it’s also more than that. This is a stab at introducing a little innovation into a series that’s grown stale over the years. It’s an experiment, and Capcom isn’t afraid to call it what it is.
Polygon recently had the chance to glean some information from one of the game’s producers, Michiteru Okabe, who shed some light on their decision to break the game up into four episodes that will release a week apart starting early next year.
According to Okabe, the decision to break the game up into bite-sized chunks was made to provide enough of an incentive for players to want to finish each episode, as well as to keep it on their minds after the fact. Capcom looks at hugely popular TV shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, and specifically at how their respective audiences turn to social media to discuss each episode after the fact.
Capcom wants us to do that with Resident Evil: Revelations 2, they’re just not completely sure how to get it to happen. One idea they have is to take a page out of the latter show’s book with a Talking Dead style recap show.
“It will be like watching a TV drama so people can talk,” Okabe said. “I think our format is a bit different, but we definitely had an eye on Telltale and the games they put together. One thing they do really well, and we took inspiration from, even though their episodes are really spread out, people remained very interested because they talked about the game with each other.”
Capcom is doing some really smart things here. They’re looking to successful TV shows and video games for inspiration, while at the same time experimenting on their own. We won’t know how it turns out until next year, but I have high hopes.
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is scheduled to hit PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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