Resident Evil 6 is ‘three times as long as Resident Evil 5′

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NowGamer reports that while at Captivate, they got a chance to talk to the director of Resident Evil Outbreak and Resident Evil 6, Eiichiro Sasaki, and ask him about the length of Resident Evil 6. He expresses that each of the three characters have a story that’s, “a little bit less than Resident Evil 5,” but when you combine the length of all three characters together, they are something about 3 times as long as Resident Evil 5 (approximately 30 hours). He mentions that while each character has a completely different side of the story, locations, and gameplay style there are a few story moments and locations that are shared between stories. The developer also admitted to having a love for The Walking Dead and Dead Space, and had took a bit of inspiration from both series, including the HUD being a bit Dead Space-like.

We’ll bring you more news on Resident Evil 6 as it comes in.

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  • http://twitter.com/Nekroido Nekroido

    Awwww yeaaaaa!

  • Levito

    I kinda doubt the game is going to be like 25+ hours long. lol

    • Ccrogers15

      How? Its possible.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Stanford/100000518139452 Ryan Stanford

      I honestly don’t find it that hard to believe. Remember, over 600 people are working on this game. That’s about 4-5 times bigger than your normal team, which create the other 10 hour long games out there. If you have 200 people apiece working on a characters story, all three teams could in that time-frame create a 10-hour campaign, and then those three 10 hour campaigns could combine to make a 30-hour campaign.

      Resident Evil 4 was a 20-25 hour long campaign for most their first time through anyway.

      • Kadal

        yups, I spent 20 hours played RE4 for 1st time..

      • Connah

        50 for me…i died a lot…

  • Red-Dragon-Cro

    Thats what i like to hear!

  • Playingwithruin

    HOLY.CRAP. AGAIN. I hope this turns out to be true, it’d be almost like getting 3 different RE games at once. even if it doesn’t turn out to be 30 hours, I’d be more then happy with each character having a well balanced 6-8 hour campaign. That seems most likely, which would put us at around 20 hours for everyone all together. That is definitely value.

  • Benjamin May

    This all sounds pretty encouraging to me.

  • Savior

    Ok! I wish to give up my summer and wake up to RE-tober 2nd!

  • Jacob B

    Today just keeps getting better and better! Although I am still holding a kernel of scepticism as to whether they will deliver.

  • Paul Smith

    It really will depend on skill level & the difficulty people play it on.Like myself i alway’s play games on the hardest to get the most out of a Game esp Resident Evil.I take my time.like Resident Evil 5 it took me over 40 plus hours.

    • Prodigy25

      It will probably take me the whole 30 hours to finish. I like to explore and look around. I never rush through games. This is great news…

  • Andrew Simmons90

    So its 15 hours long? Yeah, Right. Thats me being generous because RE5 could easily be finished within the 4 hour mark.

    lets be honest, the Amazon exclusive pre-order map had the description ‘participate in intense gunfights and hone your martial arts skills’. As soon as it said that, this game was instantly off my purchase list.

    Leon will be the section most of us old RE fans want; the horror aspect. Chris will be full of gunfights and a crap cover system, Wesker Jr will be all kung fu martial arts.

    Then we get the normal ‘two heroes crossing guns because one wants revenge and the other wants criminal justice’. Its so damn cliche its not even funny, let alone none of it makes sense. But then, from RE4, nothings made sense. Neo wesker, Douchebag leon, Chris punching boulders, Wesker going from a supremely intelligent manipulative figure in the shadows who would never reveal himself, to suddenly being a psycho with a god complex complete with ‘SHOOT THE GLOWING ORANGE BIT TO KILL THE BOSS’. It totally changed Wesker. All those years of being so smart, suddenly we go into the base of a volcano, punch boulders, double rocket launcher and one of the best videogaming villains has been massacred.

    Im willing to bet, ’3 times as long’ stands for the multitude of DLC maps included on the disc but requires further purchase as well.

    • JermuH_92

      Oh! cry me a river.. If you so called “old-school” RE fan being all that critical and sceptical about it just leave it to shelves.

      Ofcourse you have point of views that both of us agree such as Wesker’s turning from intelligent and cunning villain to a retarded seeking-for-a-world-domination idiot from Marvel comic books it shows something that tells me that Capcom was little out of ideas at the end of RE5 when it was in-the-making, and oh my god the steroid junkie Chris too… couldn’t handle Wesker in CVX with his string-thin arms? Apparently so.

      And I think the “participate in intense gunfights and hone your martial arts skills” is exclusively for the mercenaries game mode and not to the main story or 3 of them.

      I myself can’t wait to get my hands to the new RE, maybe Capcom struck the gold vein this time?

      - JermuH

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cory-M-Goldberg/530810818 Cory M. Goldberg

        People should be sceptical about RE6. Capcom messed up RE5 badly. Hopefully they have learned from their mistakes….

  • AVX

    Lol I beat resident evil 5 at the 3 hour mark no joke infinite ammo helped a lot lol so its 9 hour game 4 me not bad….