Resident Evil Village is the eighth major instalment of the Resident Evil series by Capcom. The game was released internationally on all current console Platforms apart from the Nintendo Switch, as well as on PC. On PS5, Xbox Series X and PC platforms the game supports high framerate options as well as Ray Traced lighting, reflections and volumetric effects which is a first for the series.
The plot follows on directly from Resident Evil 7 where the player once again assumes control of
Ethan Winters who has since escaped
Eveline and the Baker family and has started to make a new life for himself and his wife
Mia Winters whom he had rescued from the Bakers some time before the start of the game. Ethan and Mia were taken under the care of
Chris Redfield and they were subsequently moved far away from the United States to an undetermined location in Eastern Europe (most likely Romania). There, they had a child named Rosemary and it is not long after the
Baby is born where the game begins.
The game opens with a light-hearted look into family life with Ethan and Mia looking after Rosemary, reading her children's stories and preparing dinner. However, things take a strange turn where B.S.A.A. operative
Chris Redfield appears along with his elite team of Hound Wolf Squad (HWS) mercenaries and Mia is gunned down inexplicably. From there, Rosemary and Ethan are stuffed into a vehicle outside and are taken from their home. Ethan is dumbfounded by this at first as Chris is supposed to be the hero - but there was obviously more to it than that.
During their journey to parts unknown, the vehicle crashes in a woodland area and Ethan appears to be the only survivor and Rosemary is nowhere to be seen.
The game reviewed extremely well on all platforms, the main negative was regarding the PC version had a bug where slowdown would occur in certain points (when enemies were getting back up from the ground, or when flies appeared near the camera) for no apparent reason - this was fixed in a subsequent update.
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