After months of hypothesis and a revealing leak earlier this week, Capcom has lastly, formally confirmed what all of us knew: Leon S. Kennedy is in Resident Evil Requiem, and he is right here to kick butt.
Tonight, at The Recreation Awards 2025, a contemporary trailer for Resident Evil Requiem noticed Leon absolutely revealed, swinging into motion because the now-grizzled veteran zombie fighter everyone knows and love.
We discovered what many people had anticipated, that Leon will function as one in every of two playable characters, alongside the beforehand introduced Grace Ashcroft. Whereas Grace’s marketing campaign focuses on survival horror, Leon’s separate antics will deal with motion.
Earlier this week, the reveal of latest Resident Evil: Requiem cowl artwork that includes Leon lastly put to mattress one in every of this 12 months’s greatest gaming mysteries — one thing developer Capcom has itself refused to handle — simply days forward of Requiem’s look tonight.
Rumors have endured for months over Leon’s involvement in Resident Evil: Requiem, with Capcom particularly declining to reply IGN’s questions over the character again at Gamescom in August. The sport’s builders have even recommended that Leon can be a poor match as a protagonist for the sport’s quieter sections as he’s now too grizzled to be scared. However by all of this, Capcom left itself with simply sufficient wiggle room for Leon to nonetheless be lurking someplace — presumably throughout Requiem’s extra action-packed sequences.
Regardless of Leon’s involvement now being confirmed, Requiem should still have secrets and techniques left in retailer. There was no point out tonight of a possible third playable character — one thing raised earlier this week by a GameStop itemizing that referenced Rosemary Winters.
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