Well folks, seeing how Captive08 held up many priorities, seems like the game is getting out of the little hedge..some featured info and announcements will be posted, and an exclusive interview with the producer of RE5,, Jun Takeuchi.

News:

-The game is now up to 60% complete
-The game will be released before March 31st, 2009, so basically March 20th is legitimate.
-2 player Co-op has been confirmed
-A bit over 20 enemies can be displayed on the screen at once
-The guys over at Destructiod got an early play of the demo
-enemies can freely carry molotov cocktails
-There is no merchant at the time, but it may end up in the final draft
-Claire might be in the game...

Source:
IGN


so that's basically all we have as of June 3rd, and we're supposed to get a release date anytime before August..so be alert!


1 more thing i forgot to mention, an interview with the games producer has been quieried, and gives many details (and the video is actually translated by voice), in regards to gameplay features, and anything in general besides the return of "the Redfields" (hence Chris AND Claire..for details, fast forward to 3:11), so watch, and listen children:

Interview with Jun

wait what you mean co-op? like as in story mode co-op? or like whole new story co-op like splinter cell or is it like re mercenry but co-op? i need to know more!!!

Man, this is gonna be intense.

Let me rephrase that...

This IS intense.

Well at least co-op means i won't be playing by myself. And i hope there isn't a merchant, or claire, no offence to claire fans, its just she can't be made a side character, no way no how.

Yeah, you bet, it's going to be intense. Just for the note guys, it's been official that the STORY mode is going to be cooperative or single (ill honestly be playing this single handedly), but in co-op, the players are going to repeatedly be split apart from time to time (mainly to keep the horror aspect and the enemies at large rather than both players using the extra artillery to easily bypass any enemies), so im pretty sure that the mercenaries will be cooperative aswell. Mercenaries co-op beats any type of multiplayer online battling anytime!

Anyways, incoming news will be posted when brought forth!

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but in co-op, the players are going to repeatedly be split apart from time to time (mainly to keep the horror aspect and the enemies at large rather than both players using the extra artillery to easily bypass any enemies)

that's good. I was afraid it would turn into Tom Clancy Resident Evil..

I reeeeeally hope that we can have both online AND offline splitscreen Co-op, unfortuantly its looking as if its online co-op only

I understand that to have offline splitscreen co-op the PS3/360 has to essentially render everything twice, but surely there is someway of doing it, I mean Army of Two/Resistance 1&2/Rainbow Six Vegas 1&2 etc. have splitscreen co-op, Ok they don't look as good as RE5, but....

here's hoping....

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but in co-op, the players are going to repeatedly be split apart from time to time (mainly to keep the horror aspect and the enemies at large rather than both players using the extra artillery to easily bypass any enemies)

that's good. I was afraid it would turn into Tom Clancy Resident Evil..

Haha, no shit.

And derek vader: Dont worry bout it man, if Capcom makes a game, it's gonna have split screen both online AND off, i mean, it better. But there's still hoping in case it isn't confirmed.

I don't see what the point of doing a split screen co-op would be.

Go Live or System Link.

it will be hard for them to make a decent split-screen mode in this game, with such graphics and everything. framerate will be very low. I highly doubt RE5 will have this feature.

To be honest in all opinion, i agree with you 2, maybe Kujas, if he supports the idea aswell.

Resident Evil was doing Excellent without multi, and i wouldn't like to see what types of mistakes would be executed if the game was to release with co-op. But featurewise, it would seem somewhat cool. And also, what Pyramidreaper explained is 100% fact, about the framerate, and the executables. It wont be enough, and the game may cause overglitching and LAG (a multiplayer's worst enemy), which is the last thing this game needs. and the idea of "Tom Clancy's Resident Evil" wouldn't be that great, at all.

You can't forget that saying. If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.

Why is everyone complaining about offline co-op? If you don't like it, don't use it. some people might not have a PSN connection, or might want to play with their buddies that don't have the game on the same system. Offline co-op will only affect the game if you use it which some people will want to do.