Resident Evil Village Shadows Of Rose DLC hands-on preview – third person horror

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GameCentral goes hands-on with the new story campaign for Resident Evil Village and what may be the return of Lady Dimitrescu.

It must just be the pandemic playing tricks on us, but it seems a very long time since Resident Evil Village first came out, even though it was only May 2021. We don’t think it was many people’s favourite entry in the series – it certainly wasn’t ours – but it was a solidly enjoyable game and given how good some of the DLC was for Resident Evil 7 the idea of getting some for Village is a welcome prospect.

Capcom announced the DLC last June but until very recently there was no clue as to what it was. Now it’s been revealed that the Winters’ Expansion (Winters is the surname of the protagonist and his daughter Rose) consists of three main components: a new third person mode for the main game, new stages and characters for Mercenaries mode, and, most significantly, a brand new story campaign called Shadows Of Rose.

We got to play around 30 minutes of Shadows Of Rose, which uses the new third person view and takes place 16 years after the events of the main game. Whether this is going to be the setting for all the games going forward isn’t clear (although the end of the main game does imply it) but here you take control of Rose Winters, who is possessed of unspecified ‘powers’ that she apparently wants to get rid of.

We started a short way into the campaign, but it seems the story involves Rose entering the ‘consciousness of the Megamycete’ in order to rid herself of her abilities. Helping her is a new character called Michael, who can only communicate with her via written words that appear floating in mid-air before you. There’s also a reference to someone called ‘K’ but who they are is a mystery.

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