The magnetism of a large woman in an enormous ol’ hat

Two years on from its preliminary launch, (yep, two years), Capcom’s gothic-horror title Resident Evil Village continues to be promoting copies and scaring gamers worldwide — This morning, the writer introduced that the newest, (nicely, chronologically newest), entry within the survival horror collection has surpassed eight million gross sales.

Resident Evil Village sees returning protagonist Ethan Winters journey right into a grim European village, looking for solutions following a violent assault on his residence and household. There, he’ll encounter creatures and residents past his darkest nightmare, coming face-to-face with a menagerie of monsters and demons, in addition to the 4 lords of the land — particularly Karl Heisenberg, Salvatore Moreau, Donna Beneviento & Angie, and the enduring Woman Dimitrescu, whose impression on the title’s advertising and marketing, and due to this fact gross sales, can’t be overstated.

Following the sport’s preliminary launch in Might 2021, an enlargement pack, Winters’ Enlargement, was launched in October of final 12 months, which added new options and an extra marketing campaign, Shadows of Rose. Whereas the change from “traditional” Resi to the fashionable, first-person Resi has not been to all people’s style, it can’t be denied that the evolution of the collection has been extremely spectacular, borne out in each the vital and reward heaped upon the titles, in addition to the titles’ respective gross sales figures — A VR version of Resident Evil Village was additionally developed to launch alongside the PlayStation VR2 {hardware}.

Resident Evil Village is offered now on PlayStation, PC, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap (through cloud)

Chris Moyse

Senior Editor – Chris has been enjoying video video games because the Nineteen Eighties and writing about them because the Eighteen Eighties. Graduated from Galaxy Excessive with honors. Twitter: @ChrisxMoyse

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