Resident Evil Requiem is Playable in First-Person and Third-Person Perspectives - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 June 2025 / 3,939 Views
Resident Evil Requiem, the is playable in both first-person and third-person, according to IGN.
Capcom will let players switch between first-person and third-person perspectives in the Options menu at any point during the game.
Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil 8: Village are both in first-person, while the Resident Evil remake games -Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4 - are playable in third-person.
View the reveal trailer below:
Resident Evil Requiem will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam on February 27, 2026.
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its seems possible to please everyone
Nice, first person gives me motion sickness
Same
That's good that we have a choice. I was wondering about that.
Hopefully it actually plays as intended.
Village's 3rd person mode felt decidedly less polished than RE2/3/4
Villages 3 person was awkward lol, I think they nailed fps with 7/8
It's because Village was designed from the ground up with a first-person camera in mind. I think they threw a third-person mode in the expansion just for extra selling power.
It looks like first-person is the 'recommended' mode but I do hope the third-person one is a bit more polished than RE Village's.
I feel like it will be, just because the game will be built for both perspectives from the beginning. So you would think both options will be pretty polished. To be honest, I am still confused as to why Capcom went back and bolted on a third-person view to Village over a year after release. Were that many people asking for it? Like I know the Shadows of Rose expansion was third-person (and that was an awesome expansion), but still seems strange to put in the effort to make the entire Village campaign third-person playable as well.
Yeah it just seemed like Capcom wanted to throw a bone at those that were wanting a third-person mode. It certainly wasn't for testing since remakes of 2 and 3 had already released at that point and those third-person cameras were practically flawless.
Plus it was a good selling point since the third-person mode was exclusively tied to the Winters Expansion rather than a free update.
That's funny, as I actually thought it was part of the free title update alongside the Winter's Expansion, and not locked behind that particular paywall.
And you would be forgiven for believing so as that makes logical sense! I found that out the hard way lol. For $20, the Shadow of Rose story is only like.....2 hours long at the most, which would not have been worth it at all. So I'm willing to bet Capcom thought paywalling a third person mode would help justify the price.
Freedom of choice is good.
I could feel Trunk's hands shaking with excitement typing this article up knowing that not only are we going back to Raccoon City, but also the game can be played in third-person xD
This is the way
WHAT? Are they trying to get my attention again?
Well at least nobody will bitch about it being fps
Gonna do my first playthrough on first-person
