Capcom Showcase Shows New Resident Evil 4 Remake Footage, More of Upcoming Village DLC

Yesterday, Capcom’s Resident Evil Showcase gave us extended looks at both the upcoming Resident Evil Village Winters’ Expansion as well as next year’s Resident Evil 4 remake. Winters’ Expansion, the upcoming $20 DLC for Village, will include Shadows of Rose, which takes place after the base game’s story, as well as updates to the Mercenary Mode, and a new third person camera option.

The footage of Shadows of Rose follows Ethan Winters’ daughter as she sets out on a mission to rid herself of psychic powers. To do this, she will have to enter a dreamworld version of the base game’s setting and fight distorted renditions of the original’s cast. In an interview, the director of the add-on, Kento Kinoshita, said this story will last roughly four hours.

We also got more details on the Mercenaries Mode update, which will make Chris Redfield, Karl Heisenberg, and Lady Dimitrescu playable with unique powers. Mercenaries is a high-score mode featured in several Resident Evil games and tasks the players with surviving against hordes of monsters. The upcoming third-person feature for Village was also shown and was described as helpful for players who found the first-person perspective of the base game too scary or who suffer from motion sickness. Purchasing the Winters’ Expansion will be necessary to play the base game from this perspective, and Shadows of Rose will also use this camera angle. The DLC is coming out on Oct. 28.