Resident Evil Veronica Is a Third-Person Game, Capcom Confirms

The teaser for Resident Evil Veronica astatine Summer Game Fest whitethorn good person been presented successful first-person, but the crippled itself volition beryllium played successful third-person, Capcom has confirmed.

Speaking astatine a Q&A league aft the uncover attended by IGN, the remake’s producer, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, confirmed that “this crippled volition beryllium a third-person game.”

Seeing arsenic the teaser told a communicative from a antithetic perspective, and this year’s Resident Evil Requiem switches betwixt the 2 styles, players mightiness person thought that Veronica would travel a acquainted path, with possibly Claire and Chris’ sections doing thing similar.

It makes sense, though. The archetypal Code Veronica is an action-heavy Resident Evil introduction that introduced the likes of dual-wielding SMGs and being capable to people aggregate enemies astatine erstwhile into its combat repertoire. When asked if this reimagining volition see the aforesaid mechanics, Hirabayashi explained that helium was “not going to beryllium capable to get into excessively galore details today.”

“However, the squad down this remake is the aforesaid squad that handled the Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4 remakes,” helium continued. “So if you looked astatine the past remakes that this squad has created, you tin astir apt consciousness a definite mindset that we person erstwhile we marque a game, and that mindset includes preserving those iconic and cardinal aspects of the title. So again, if you look astatine our work, you tin astir apt get benignant of a bully consciousness of what benignant of attack we're taking here, and possibly you tin ideate what that mightiness look similar for this remake.”

Veronica stars Claire Redfield arsenic she begins the hunt for her missing brother, Chris. Having survived the horrors of Resident Evil 2, she’s thrust backmost into the action, albeit with much acquisition than she had anterior to the horrors of Raccoon City. In respect to however overmuch of an evolved mentation of Claire we’ll spot successful Veronica, and however acold her combat skills person developed, Hirabayashi said the squad is taking a realistic approach.

“So during Resident Evil 2, she was a assemblage student,” the shaper stated. “Veronica takes spot astir 3 months aft the events of Resident Evil 2. So let's conscionable deliberation astir however that progression oregon however overmuch alteration happened successful astir 3 months. So again, 3 months is not a batch of time. Of course, she has had grooming from her brother, and of course, she survived the incidental successful Raccoon City, truthful she's not going to beryllium the nonstop aforesaid character. But the portrayal of her and her benignant is going to beryllium successful alignment with that timeline and that past that we're looking astatine for Veronica.”

We’ll spot conscionable however overmuch Resident Evil Veronica resembles the archetypal erstwhile we yet get our hands connected successful 2027. Be definite to cheque retired IGN's roundup of everything announced during Summer Game Fest 2026 to find retired what other the video crippled manufacture has successful store.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.