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Sunday Comics: Dead Island In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu, Resident Evil 6 executive producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, director Eiichirou Sasaki, and producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi had quite a few interesting things to say about the upcoming title.
Japanese Resident Evil fans received a very posh box set for the PlayStation 3 earlier this month, stuffing 15 years’ worth of zombie horror history — across five core Resident Evil games — in very slick packaging. See its horrors unboxed in the video above, for getting your hands on it might be a challenge.
Most of you are probably aware that, in Japan, the Resident Evil series is known as Biohazard. And if you’re like me, most of you probably never stopped to wonder why.
It seems like everyone in the world is waiting for Resident Evil 5. Even your mum. Even the Pope. Even The Pope’s mum.
But not Shinji Mikami. The creator of the Biohazard/Resident Evil series has already decided that he will not like the game and is planning to avoid it at all costs.
In Japan, it’s pretty common for video games to have pachinko machines. Heck! Movies, anime and manga character even get pachinko machines based on them. It’s not just spinning metal balls! New pachinko machines even feature large LCD-type displays to keep players engaged. Pachinko maker Yamasa’s Resident Evil machine puts poor Jill Valentine through the standard series of scares and shootings — if only for suggestive glances!
Yes, it’s another videogame franchise licensed out to adorn a pachislot machine. You’ve seen them before. Ridge Racer, Virtua Fighter, Fatal Fury, Beatmania, Devil May Cry… they’re all the rage in Japan. This latest venture, however, might be the biggest of the lot. If only because it’s Resident Evil, which gives them licence to release not only a second, third and fourth machine, but they can then come back later and remake half of them, while re-releasing the other half into joints across the street.
Resident Evil infects pachislot parlors [Siliconera]
This a pretty interesting short documentary on the making of a commercial for Biohazard 2/Resident Evil 2. The commercial was directed by zombie master George Romero and starred (the recently deceased) Brad Renfro as Leon Kennedy. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a documentary on the making of a commercial but this one is actually pretty interesting with the possible exception of the vapid quotes from the gal playing Claire Redfield. It lasts about eleven minutes and is definitely worth a watch.
[Thanks, king_e_dawg]
In an interview with Resident Evil Fan, an aptly named resident Evil fan site, Umbrella Chronicles voice actor Tara Platt revealed that she had done some additional RE voice work besides her role as the Red Queen in UC. According to Platt, she simultaneously recorded the voice of Jill Valentine for an as yet unnamed Resident Evil (Biohazard) arcade game that will be released in Japan. When questioned about the new title, Platt had this to say:
The Japanese-based Biohazard is a game console that is available as an arcade game in Japan. And I mean an actual arcade standing game.
It was wonderful getting to play Jill. She’s such a fierce character with determination and strength. Unfortunately, I don’t have much more info than that, but I’m going to Japan this year, and you can bet I’ll be on the look-out for the game in Arcades there!
While her answer does seem a bit confusing, it sounds like we might hear something about this new game in the coming months. If this does turn out to be true, perhaps we might see a showing at this year’s TGS? Until then, I will cross my fingers and hope for the best.
