You could feel the anticipation build when Masachika Kawata took to the stage at Sony's Tokyo Game Show conference last week to make an announcement. You could even feel that anticipation, still, after the somewhat flat reveal of a new logo that Capcom would be using throughout the 20th anniversary of its most famous series, Resident Evil. It's okay Capcom - we'll happily see you unveil all the logos in the world if you're teeing up something new. Everyone in the auditorium was too polite to speak out, but you could feel their hearts pumping to the same beat: 'Seven, seven, seven, seven.'
That was the moment that Capcom decided to announce Umbrella Corps, a multiplayer-focused online shooter set nominally within the universe of Resident Evil. It could, it's fair to say, have gone down better.
Even Kawata, a long-time producer on the series who's part of a small team within Capcom's Osaka studio, could sense the anticipation, just as he could tell when we meet a couple of days after the conference that this new project wasn't exactly what fans had wanted.
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