The zombies are eating well this summer. Capcom have revealed the much-rumoured remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, originally released on Dreamcast a billion centuries ago in 2000.
Titled Resident Evil: Veronica, the new version once again stars Claire Redfield, and is slated to launch on PC and console in 2027. Here’s a trailer, fresh from the bloody banquet tables of Summer Game Fest 2026.
A quick recap of that trailer, for those of you too bone idle to push a play button. The trailer takes place in first person, which is very much Resident Evil’s preferred viewpoint lately, though it’s possible there’s also a third-person view, as in Resident Evil Requiem. The scene is night time at Paris. Playing as Claire, we arrive at a dodgy apartment building and are escorted up the stairs by a sinister old lady. We’re here to check out an apartment belonging to Claire’s bulky bro Chris Redfield.
The old lady finds a nice box of biscuits and goes to make tea. Then there’s an ominous knock on the door, and Claire is grabbed by some unseen assailant. At this point, the narrative portion of the trailer gives way to a montage of grim and creepy places – cages in laboratories, ominous woodlands, you know the drill.
I wish I could bring some proper insight, but sadly, Code Veronica is one of the Resis I missed. All I can remember about the Dreamcast original is Claire doing a cool move in a cutscene, where she drops a gun in slow motion and then picks it up while falling on her bum. Absolute cinema.
