Capcom shows off some new titles

Courtesy of Capcom’s annual “Captivate” event we’ve got a slew of footage from a bunch of new games on the horizon. Some of them we already knew about, but others totally took us by surprise!  None more so than………..

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM9UNAXwEg&feature=player_embedded

I’ve got nothing against Dead Rising 2’s Chuck Green, but there’s no way he was ever going to fill the giant boots left behind by macho photo journalist Frank West. So Capcom, realising their mistake, have decided to create a remake of Dead Rising 2 but with good old Mr West as the protagonist once again, thus officially making possibly the strangest/most awesome remake in gaming history.

It promises to be a lot more than just a quick pallet swap, Frank will supposedly follow a radically different story path to Chuck and will once again be able to use his photography skills to gather PP much like he did in the original Dead Rising. Plus, he’s covered wars ya’ know?

I assume this is going to be a stand alone expansion in the style of Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare rather than a giant DLC add on to Dead Rising 2, but don’t quote me on that until we have some official word from Capcom.

Asura’s Wrath

From CyberConnect2 (the makers of .hack and a shit-ton of Naruto games) comes……..uh… apparently some sort of cross between God of War and anime? It’s been quite a while since we’ve actually seen anything significant from this title so I’m glad to see its going strong, because whatever it is, it looks awesome and I want it.

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition

Capcom are treating this as some sort of surprise announcement, but must of us heard about this a good while back. Basically it’s a DLC patch that turns any copy of Super Street Fighter 4 into the updated arcade version that’s been knocking around in Japan for a good while. Changes include four extra characters and a bunch of gameplay tweaks that only die hard fans are likely to notice or understand.

Street Fighter X Tekken

Not sure what else to say about this one other than YO TEKKEN IS GOING TO GO FIGHT STREET FIGHTER IN THE STREET FIGHTER UNIVERSE! Not to be confused with Tekken x Street Fighter, which for some crazy reason is separate game where Street Fighter goes to go fight Tekken in the Tekken universe. If you’re having a tough time imagining what this particular crazy mash-up looks like, I direct you over to my good colleague Gabriel’s article.

Dragon’s Dogma

Newly announced today, Dragon’s Dogma is supposedly the beginning of an all new PS3 exclusive franchise. Judging by the brief press release and this video, it looks to be equal parts Monster Hunter and Demon’s Souls. I really hope Capcom don’t think that this in any way redeems them for transferring development of Monster Hunter Tri from the PS3 onto the Wii…….

Resident Evil: The mercenaries 3D

I’m not sure where I stand on Capcom trying to flog an old minigame as a fully fledged title, but what I am sure of is that my lovely rather expensive 3DS currently has near to naff all worth playing on it right about now. In the words of Philip J. Fry, shut up and take my money!

For the full details on all these titles head over to Capcom’s official blog.