The Resident Evil series shifted to first-person perspective beginning with Resident Evil 7 and continued with Village. Director Koshi Nakanishi implemented first-person to increase immersion and fear, but observed that the intensity made RE7 possibly too scary for some players. To broaden accessibility, Resident Evil Requiem will launch with both first- and third-person camera modes. The third-person option is intended as a buffer from extreme horror by presenting the player character as an avatar, making the experience easier to manage. Requiem releases February 27, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
"more immersive and more scary than ever before,"
"media and players agreed it was an incredibly scary game, but it was possibly too scary."
"If you started the game off in first-person perspective, and you're finding it's too much, then-third person is almost a way to step slightly back from that level of horror and make it slightly easier to deal with by having the character on screen as a kind of avatar of yourself,"
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