The showender of Opening Night Live 2025 showcase was new gameplay from Capcom’s upcoming survival horror game, Resident Evil Requiem.
The ninth mainline entry to the long-running series (be glad it wasn’t actually titled Resident Evil Re9uiem) follows new protagonist Grace Ashcroft as she revisits what’s left of Racoon City, the city that was the epicenter of the zombie outbreak caused by a biohazard and the setting of many Resident Evil titles.
In this new gameplay footage, it’s a flashback to a younger Grace, sharing some family time with her mother, before everything turned out traumatic.
The trailer does an excellent job at highlighting the the amount of work that’s gone to make Resident Evil Requiem looks good in the third-person and first-person. Capcom previously confirmed that Resident Evil Requiem can be played in both third-person camera and first-person camera.
In this snippet, we see the opening cutscene in the third-person before transitioning into a first-person perspective. Resident Evil Requiem is one of the few games to be designed around both camera perspectives. And this is supposed to be a survival horror game, so one would assume the job scope of nailing down the game feel in two wildly different point of views while still being scary is not trivial, to say the least.
The short gameplay snippet should convince Resident Evil fans who felt that they should be taking control of a fan-favourite character like Leon on why playing a new character like Grace is justified. We’ve known how she’s supposed to be a coward, gets scared easily. But here we see a younger version of her, experiencing a traumatic moment, which she’ll later have to revisit. The character writing here feels natural and convincing. Which is good to see.
Resident Evil Requiem will release on February 27, 2026 for the PS5, PC (Steam) and Xbox Series X|S, just in time for the series’ 30th anniversary.