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Biohazard Wii indepth
Extensive information on the gameplay and content of RE:Wii has surfaced.

-The game consists of 4 "chapters", RE1's mansion, RE2's RPD, RE3's city areas and RE4's village (plus surrounding areas).
-Each chapter has 2 characters to choose from. RE1 has Jill and Chris, RE2 has Leon and Claire, RE3 has Jill and Carlos and RE4 has Leon and Ada.
-There are several characters that can be unlocked by playing through the game: Rebecca Chambers, Hunk and Albert Wesker.
-The gameplay of all chapters is designed around RE4's. Press the B trigger on the wiimote to go into over-the-shoulder view, aim with the pointer and press A to fire.
-The game will have QTEs, but rather than push buttons you have to make motions with the wiimote in order to get through them.
-All characters will have mêlée attacks, just like RE4.
-To encourage replayablility, each character has strengths and weaknesses, similar to how in RE4:Mercenaries Ada had the least health, Krauser was the slowest, etc.
-Just like in RE4:Mercenaries each character has a unique set of weapons. What's more players can only carry 2 weapons at any one time. Chris gets a pistol and shotgun whilst Jill gets a pistol and grenade launcher.
-You will be able to find several new weapons during each stage. For example, RE1 will have Richard's shotgun, RE2 will have the Desert Eagle, RE4 will have the Chicago Typewriter. There will also be new weapons like Krauser's anti-personnel robots.
-Similar to Devil May Cry 3, after each chapter you can save your data and any new weapons picked up will be available for use in Arcade Mode.
-Arcade Mode is like a giant Mercenaries minigame. No puzzles or story, just pick a character and a stage and blast through it. Building on the resounding success of Mercenaries seen when RE4 was released.
-Scenario Mode will feature a large number of ingame cutscenes.
-New content not in the games that the chapters were based on will be added. The primary goal of this will be to link RE4 and Umbrella's status in it more closely with the rest of the series.
-Ammo conservation will play a part in the gameplay, so it's not just constant action like RE4.
-Trailer coming at TGS.

(this was on monday, an important fact)

You were right...had it been on a Tuesday, your little anecdote would have been far less powerful and inspiring.

-Ammo conservation will play a part in the gameplay, so it's not just constant action like RE4.

This part I don't like. Fuck ammo conservation. When zombies take over for real I'll worry about ammo, until then let me just blast the fuckers in a game and have fun. The rest almost sounds too good to be true.

On a more serious note, never having enough ammo was one of the best things about System Shock2.  Really rachets the tension.

Xilren

If I want tension I'll stop taking my hi blood pressure meds. See, this line of thinking reminds me of the EQphiles who insist that if you don't have to spend hundreds of hours of your time walking back to your corpse that the game just isn't challenging enough.

-All characters will have mêlée attacks, just like RE4.

I'm with Xilren on this one.  I love the beginning of RE2 where you have to try to run around a shitload of zombies on the way to the police station.  If you've got a shitload of ammunition, a zombie ends up just being a really slow moving target and what the fuck is the point of that?

Im sorry, I though you were actually interested in a horror survival game.  Such games are usually all about tension.  My bad.  "Deer Hunter plus Zombies" shooting range for you then.