'Dead by Daylight' and 'Resident Evil' is the most awaited crossover yet, and will come next month. Who will be the new killer and survivors from the famous horror franchise?
Behaviour Interactive has revealed a new Dead By Daylight Resident Evil Chapter, which will add two new survivors, Nemesis as a Killer, and a map based on the Raccoon City Police Department from RE2.
Dead By Daylight celebrates its fifth anniversary this week and developer Behavior Interactive has marked the occasion be releasing new details about the game’s upcoming Resident Evil chapter. Not only will fans get the chance to hunt down survivors as Nemesis, but they’ll also be able to take it on as Leon Kennedy and Jill Valentine. Grab a sneak peek at the action in the newest trailer below.
The Resident Evil chapter will be dropping into Dead By Daylight on June 15. All three new characters will have their own trademark abilities. As Leon, players can craft flash grenades, which can be used to either blind or distract the killer. Other the other side of the game, players stomping around as Nemesis can infect survivors with tentacle attacks. The more they infect the more their tentacles grow in both reach and strength. Survivors can reduce the effect with vaccines, but there are only a limited number available on the map.
Back in 1998, director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt made the infamous sci-fi action movie
Soldier, starring Kurt Russell. A notorious flop, it gave Anderson some downtime to consider his next move. I couldn’t get hold of Paul for weeks, Bolt told
Empire in 2016. Eventually he returned my calls and I asked him what he’d been doing and he said, ‘I’ve been playing
Resident Evil! We have to make the movie!’ He’d literally been up all night for weeks playing this game.
That film arrived in 2002 and has spawned, to date, five increasingly bonkers sequels and a reboot that’s due in December. The six films so far have taken more than a billion dollars at the international box office. For a while it was officially the most successful horror film franchise of all time, until James Wan’s