With Resident Evil Village now less than a month away, CAPCOM’s game director Morimasa Sato was featured on the latest PlayStation Official Magazine (issue 187, May 2021) to discuss his experience with developing the game on Sony’s PS5 console.
When asked to choose a specific PS5 feature above all others, Sato-san went with the console’s Tempest Engine 3D audio technology.
I was 13 when I played the original Resident Evil, and it was so scary that not only did I have to stop playing, but I had to turn the box around so that I wouldn’t see the huge scary eyeball on the cover. I want today’s players to experience the fear I felt back then using all the advances in technology that have happened since the first game was released and having developed Resident Evil Village with that goal in mind, I can safely say that the PS5 hardware is an amazing fit for horror games.
That said, he also mentioned that the virtual elimination of load times is ‘quietly revolutionary’ from a designer standpoint.
Resident Evil Village will launch May 7th for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S|X. The Maiden demo will remain a PS5 exclusive, but all platforms should get a new demo very, very soon; stay tuned on Wccftech to know when it’s live for download.
