”At the core, basically, we want to make the best use of our brand,” Kawata said in an interview with Gamasutra. ”Resident Evil is an IP, and a franchise, that people have loved for a long time. It’s still very, very popular and we’re very, very happy about that, and we want to basically answer all the requests that we get about the series.”
”People want to see a lot of different experiences within the Resident Evil universe,” Kawata theorized, “And so we’ve been fortunate enough to be able to answer those requests with a lot of different experiences, in different forms, in games.”
Kawata is confident that the shooter won’t ”dilute” the brand, stating, ”All these different Resident Evil games that are coming out are focused on very different things. I’m thinking that if we would have brought out all these Resident Evil titles, and they were all focused on survival horror, absolutely I think people would be really sick of Resident Evil.
“But in my mind, we’ve got this online shooter game, we’ve got other things like Mercenaries that are even more action-focused, and some other games. And by going in a lot of different directions, I’m pretty confident that people are going to still be enjoying Resident Evil for a long time.”
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is due on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this Winter.
