Resident Evil for DS

[Waylander]

I hope this isnt old news. I did a search.
Resident Evil DS (http://www.capcom.co.jp/ds_bio/)

I cant read Japanese so I dont know any features.

[Domstercool]

Yeah it's quite old news :)

[Waylander]

Ahhh sorry. Is it just a port of the first Resident Evil game?

[RuneSP]

Not entirely, the view is like in RE4.

[Retro_Link]

Ahhh sorry. Is it just a port of the first Resident Evil game?
Yeah as 'RuneSP' said, alot of the game is meant to be in the Resi 4 perspective (though a number of screenshots seem to show otherwise!).

Also there is a new Knife combat mode; where during the main game, when you come across zombies, the game enters a FPS perspective and you have to use the stylus on the bottom screen to attack them with the knife.
There are also meant to be a number of new feature and puzzles to the main game.

[RedShell]

There are also meant to be a number of new feature and puzzles to the main game.
Multi player! :smile:
In addition to these new details, we also have one impressive teaser about the game's wireless play. Up to four players will be able to play simultaneously -- the first time we've had a specific number. Cooperative? Competitive? Capcom still isn't talking. IGN Resident Evil Update (http://ds.ign.com/articles/653/653733p1.html?RSSwhen2005-09-25_164100&RSSid=653733)

[Charlie]

Japan release date: 31 December 2006
I doubt there's any truth in that though...

"Deadly Silence is still without a final release date, but we expect it to hit right in time for the original's anniversary, early next year."

IGN contradicting themselves, again...

This looks amazing though, a must-buy for me I think. I've never completed the first Resi Evil

[YenRug]

http://ds.ign.com/articles/653/653733p1.html

Resident Evil Update
What's new for the DS version? Find out here.
by Anoop Gantayat

September 25, 2005 - The DS is the first modern portable system to get its own version of Resident Evil, and Capcom doesn't seem to be cutting corners. Resident Evil Deadly Silence, a remake of the original Resident Evil, will sport a number of new features not present in the original PlayStation title. For partial clarification, we turn to the latest issue of Nintendo Dream.

RE: DS uses the DS's bottom screen to display most of the action, with the top screen used to display a map, your remaining ammo and your remaining life. There's no life meter in the game, though. You actually determine your character's health by the background color of the top screen. Red means you're in a pinch. Also, until you've actually obtained a full map of a particular area, the map on the top screen will only show areas that you've previously accessed, keeping it in line with previous Resident Evil map systems.

The stylus and, possibly, the microphone will be put to good use in the game. Puzzles make use of the stylus, with the magazine showing off a new puzzle involving a record player. Other screenshots in the magazine hint that you'll be able to use the stylus to wipe blood of the screen and blow into the microphone to give mouth-to-mouth to other characters. These last two areas are just speculation by the magazine, but this sort of speculation often turns to fact in future updates.

Of course, the most striking use of the stylus comes in the form of knife battles, where the game switches to first person and you use the stylus to slash away at oncoming zombies. While this might suggest that you can switch to first person mode whenever you like, in turn suggesting that pre-rendered backdrops have been done away with, it turns out that the knife battles start up automatically at fixed points -- like when you enter a room, for instance. Finish a knife battle, and you're back in the standard Resident Evil perspective.

In addition to these new details, we also have one impressive teaser about the game's wireless play. Up to four players will be able to play simultaneously -- the first time we've had a specific number. Cooperative? Competitive? Capcom still isn't talking.

Deadly Silence is still without a final release date, but we expect it to hit right in time for the original's anniversary, early next year.