One of probably the most spectacular mod tasks going is Resident Evil 4‘s HD Project, a replacement texture pack which is so dedicated to the original look that the makers have even tracked down and rephotographed some of the buildings Capcom photographed for their original textures. After six years, the mod is nearing completion and… now here come rumours that Capcom are planning a full remake of RE4. While I wouldn’t count on the mod to surrender, I’m nonetheless glad to listen to them shrug off the rumours and say ye olde RE4 nonetheless deserves a makeover.
Rumours earlier this month mentioned that Capcom had began manufacturing on a full remake of RE4. They’re solely rumours for now, but it surely does appear inevitable contemplating how widespread Capcom’s latest RE remakes have been.
Albert Marin, one of many two fellas behind the undertaking, addressed the remake rumours in a blog post on Saturday:
“Right now it’s just a rumour, but I don’t really care if it’s done or not. Capcom’s latest remakes are way different from the original versions. The original game will still be unique and worthy of a remastered version.”
Capcom have been altering Resident Evil a good bit as they return spherical, making them play extra like trendy third-person shooters than ye olde fixed-camera survival horror games. RE4 is among the games which outlined that new model of shooter, pushing the sequence far deeper into shooty motion, but it surely feels very a lot of its time now and Capcom will certainly fiddle a good bit when/in the event that they attain it.
Marin additionally shared a video displaying their present model of Chapter 4-4, the bit with the ultimate boss battle earlier than Leon leaves the fort:
The crew are taking one other polish cross on the entire game since the version released in 2018. Tweaks embrace redoing a number of textures, re-rendering cutscenes at excessive resolutions, tweaking lighting, and updating enemies. It seems to be nice.
Unlike some texture packs, the RE4 HD Project nonetheless seems to be like RE4. It preserves the sharpened, contrast-y model of Capcom’s authentic work, simply with extra element. Capcom could have chosen that model partially in response to technical limitations of the time but it surely was how the game seemed, and the way I need the game to nonetheless look. And the crew have even mounted a few of Capcom’s errors, going into the geometry to deal with a number of glitches and quirks from the unique. It’s mighty spectacular.
You can observe the mod’s progress on their blog and Twitter. If you need to get actually particular, they’re additionally publicly monitoring progress on individual rooms.
The hearsay mill has additionally been grinding out rumours about Resident Evil 8, together with that it’ll be one other first-person one and can have… werewolves? Sure, why not, all’s honest on the planet of bioweapons.
