Capcom’s announced additional details on Resident Evil 6, confirming the game will take place in 2013 among other things.

RE6′s debut trailer, released last month alongside the announcement of the horror sequel.

The publisher also specifically nailed down a specific location in China, where co-protagonist Chris Redfield is based in the game: a fictional town called Lanshiang. Before the events of RE6, Redfield went through a personal trauma, but decided to team up again with the BSAA for the ongoing crisis.

As well as Chris and Leon Kennedy, the game will feature a third protagonist as previously mentioned. While this person still hasn’t been named, it’s said he is “currently engaged in a bloody conflict in Eastern Europe, and rather than think about the consequences and implications, he’s thinking “how money he can make from it.”

Additional character profiles have also been released alongside the protagonists backgrounds. Helena Harper, the woman seen with Leon in the trailer, is a government agent currently in the process of transferring to the Secret Service as one of the president’s bodyguards. She is the one who admits responsibility for what’s happened to the president.

Speaking of, the president is not the same as the one who is Ashley’s father from RE4. Rather, he is Adam Benford. He was the one who hired Leon Kennedy following the Raccoon City incident. As shown in the trailer, he becomes infected and becomes a zombie.

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