Just this morning, Capcom announced that it will be adding more multiplayer features to Resident Evil 5, which comes out tomorrow (WOOO!).
Resident Evil 5 already has full cooperative mode for its campaign. Two players can play through the entire lengthy story, either locally on 1 console or online. One character controls series fav Chris Redfield, the other takes on Sheva, the franchise's newest badass chick. Early reviews have applauded the co-op, saying that it works very well and is a blast to play. (in fact, some claim that playing solo is frustrating, & that the game is only worth it when played co-op)
In addition to the co-op campaign, players who beat the game will unlock co-op Mercenaries mode. Mercenaries was included in Resident Evil 4 as an unlockable. The mode is similar to Horde mode in Gears of War 2, in both games the player has to kill increasingly powerful waves of enemies with limited resources, while trying to earn a high score. Mercenaries in RE4 also had a time limit though, and lacked multiplayer.So with a co-op campaign and a now-multiplayer Mercenaries mode, Resident Evil 5 has its co-op bases covered. But today's announcement was for some competitive modes that will be available in a few weeks.
For 400 Microsoft points or $5, players can download the competitive modes, which will include 2 styles of matches. 'Slayer's Rule' rewards the team that gets the most zombie kills in a time limit, while 'Survivor's Rule' pits the players directly against each other.
It isn't clear yet if these competitive modes will work for local play and online, or just online. With countless shooters abandoning local play in the last year, let's hope that all of the modes will work offline and on.
So what are you waiting for? Get some cash in your pocket, because RE5 comes out tomorrow. And with these new multiplayer options, it'll definitely be worth the money.
- Scott
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