{"id":84326,"date":"2026-06-10T19:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84326"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:37:30","slug":"yes-resident-evil-veronica-is-a-third-person-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84326","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Resident Evil: Veronica Is A Third-Person Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like (well, not <em>just like<\/em>) the original 2000 game, Resident Evil: Veronica will be played from a third-person perspective. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news was shared with GameSpot during a group Q&amp;A session at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/summer-game-fest-live-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/summer-game-fest-live-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">Summer Game Fest<\/a>, which is also where Capcom officially announced the game to the public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original Resident Evil: Code Veronica was also played in third-person&#8211;just like most of the older Resident Evil games&#8211;but it utilized the clunkier &#8220;tank&#8221; controls of the PlayStation originals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Resident Evil: Veronica, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/videos\/resident-evil-veronica-what-we-learned\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/videos\/resident-evil-veronica-what-we-learned\/\">GameSpot was told<\/a> the closest gameplay corollary would be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/why-capcom-chose-to-remake-resident-evil-code-veronica\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/why-capcom-chose-to-remake-resident-evil-code-veronica\/\">Resident Evil 2 remake<\/a>. Both games feature Claire Redfield in a playable role, and because Veronica only takes place a few months after Resident Evil 2, Claire is still not a combat expert&#8211;there will be a big focus on resource management, in classic Resident Evil fashion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though it was not a numbered, mainline entry when the original version launched, Resident Evil: Veronica is being treated closer to one this time around. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/how-resident-evil-veronica-is-being-treated-like-a-mainline-game\/\">one-word subtitle<\/a> was chosen to evoke the recent games like Requiem and Village, and as longtime fans know, much of the franchise&#8217;s main story continued in Code Veronica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resident Evil Veronica launches in 2027 for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like (well, not just like) the original 2000 game, Resident Evil: Veronica will be played from a third-person perspective. The news was shared with GameSpot during a group Q&amp;A session at Summer Game Fest, which is also where Capcom officially announced the game to the public. The original Resident Evil: Code Veronica was also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":84328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84329,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84326\/revisions\/84329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}