Resident Evil™: Operation Raccoon City, a collaboration between Capcom
and Vancouver based studio Slant 6 Games, is scheduled for release this
Winter. This latest offering will take the series in a completely new
direction and offer a style of gameplay yet to be seen from the
franchise.Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City delivers a true third
person team based shooter experience set within the dark and sinister
Resident Evil™ universe. The setting of the Resident Evil universe not
only provides a rich backdrop to the action but delivers a unique and
thrilling triple threat battle. Zombies and Bio-Organic Weap0ns
(B.O.W’s) add to the mix as players not only compete against their
team’s opposing squad but also tackle this third unpredictable element
that could only exist in the twisted Resident Evil universe, creating a
new style of gameplay and breaking the conventions of traditional team
based shooters.It is September 1998 and the action centres on the
ill-fated Raccoon City and the horrifi c consequences of the deadly
T-virus outbreak. With a cover up required, Umbrella orders an elite
team into Raccoon City to destroy all evidence of the outbreak and
eliminate any survivors. Meanwhile the US Government has quarantined the
city and dispatched its own team of elite soldiers to determine the
source of the mysterious outbreak. Players take on the role of an
Umbrella Security Service soldier (U.S.S.), competing alone or in up to
four player co-op in a battle against all the competing forces at play
in Raccoon City.