Project Resistance is a 4v1 online survival shooter with one Mastermind

With this weeks Tokyo Game Show, Japanese gaming giant Capcom has now fully unveiled their much-talked about Resident Evil game. Project Resistance is, just as we speculated, an online survival-shooter in the venerable zombie-action franchise. There’s no release date as of now but the game will come out for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Check out the new official trailer here!

Ever since the first images leaked of Capcom’s mysterious new project, pretty much everyone was able to guess what kind of game it was going to be. With a distinct focus on a cast of four characters, the similarities to other online survival-shooter like Left 4 Dead were simply too obvious. With today’s official unveiling, we at least learn that there is much more to Project Resistance than that.

Capcom’s Project Resistance is a new 1 vs. 4 asymmetric online survival horror experience set in the world of Resident Evil. Unleash your inner evil as a cunning Mastermind or join the fight as one of the resourceful Survivors desperately trying to escape every obstacle the Mastermind puts in their way!

The most interesting piece of new info is that the game will be an asymmetrical multiplayer game. Four survivors will have to play as a team to survive the sadistic survival experiments of a Mastermind. Later will also be controlled by a player and here is exactly where the asymmetric nature of Project Resistance comes into play.

Playing as a survivor looks to be a fairly standard third-person survival-shooter type of gameplay, while the Mastermind acts more like a dungeon master who can choose between a wide selection of enemy types, obstacles and generally let his inner monster out. By observing the survivors through security cameras, the Mastermind is able to plot out future rooms to his or her liking. An interesting tidbit is that this will work by the use of a card deck, with each card being one type of enemy, weapon, obstacle etc..

Now, while this sounds really interesting, fans aren’t really happy about it, as is seen by the trailer being significantly downvoted on YouTube. Time will ultimately tell if this ends up joining the list of disappointing Resident Evil spin-offs or manage to become a worthwhile and unique online experience.