Code Veronica Remake Reveal Trailer Breakdown
You read that right, it's official: Code Veronica is being remade at long last! This was something we've been waiting for for a while, but they finally announced it at SGF and the reveal trailer is honestly longer than I thought it would be. There isn't too too much to speculate about at this point since most of its pretty contained, but there are certainly some interesting little details and things for me to yap about.
The trailer kicks off with some gorgeous shots of an area in Paris, and it looks like the remake is sticking with the timeline as expected, so we've got Paris in December 1998. Someone, likely one of the Redfields (and probably Claire specifically since the car is red) drives past "Cafe du Parapluie" which translate to 'Umbrella Cafe' in English... lol.
Interestingly enough, the vast majority of the trailer is shown in first person from Claire's perspective-- personally, I hope we're not locked into FP because I don't like the FP RE games, but I suspect it may have a mechanic similar to Requiem where you have the option of switching between 1st and 3rd. She follows the directions to a hotel and buzzes in where she's greeted by an old woman and we then learn Chris is staying on the 3rd floor in this hotel.
The old woman tells Claire that Chris is "quite odd" and then leads her into Chris' (seemingly abandoned) hotel room which is... a complete disaster. True to OG Chris, this Chris is also a slop and he's got shit everywhere. Clothes thrown over the couch, items scattered around, cameras set out (so it looks like Chris may have been surveilling someone from his hotel room?), the ash tray is full, and there's pills scattered around too (kinda reminds me of Jill's apartment from 3R). There isn't enough detail for me to make out what kind of pills there are, but it certainly paints the picture that Chris isn't doing so hot in the aftermath of everything. The old lady tells Claire that "it's like a boulder rolled through here"-- very obvious reference to Chris' future boulder-punching days lol.
In a very reminiscent manner to Grace exploring the Wrenwood Hotel, a knock on the door interrupts Claire, but there's no one outside... or so it seems. But right as she opens the door, she gets nabbed. Even with the image brightened, its still too hard to see who this is or what they look like, but it appears they grabbed her and covered her mouth.
As is shown a bit later in the trailer, the guy grabs her and holds what appears to be a giant ass dagger to her-- from the voice, this clearly isn't Wesker, but the guy does wear black leather gloves and knows who she is. We our first shot of Claire's face here too, which is interesting to me. More details on her new model at the end! Per the description on the official site for CVR, it appears this guy may be a member of the Umbrella special forces unit.
After that, the action kicks off and we get some really fast shots cut in as the music swells. With most of them, its too difficult to make out what they are of since a lot of its just little details but I did find this guy interesting, especially given his uniform...
We even get to see some of Rockfort Island it seems, with choppers flying over the sea to the island.
And then we get this guy, or who I'm assuming is a guy, in a hoodie. We really don't have anything to go on here because its a shot from behind and super dark, but if you pause it at just the right second, it looks like we can make out some red-brown hair. I'm going to guess this is probably Steve given the hair color, but it's possible this is Chris too and maybe it just looks like more of a red due to the lighting. I'm fairly confident this is Steve though.
And then we get to see the Ashford Estate in all its glory, complete with a very quick glimpse of who I'm going to assume is probably Alfred.
Our final shot is Claire investigating some room. I think this may be at the Umbrella facility since one of the zombies that attacks her is wearing an Umbrella logo pin.
And now to address the elephant in the room: they did drop 'Code' from the title. I don't really have too many feelings about this-- the title matters significantly less to me than the overall plot and content of the game. But I must say the graphics are fucking stunning here. Is it just me, or does it look better than Requiem in terms of graphics? Hopefully that's not too controversial to say. Requiem is beautiful but somehow CVR looks even more beautiful to me.
They already seem to be advertising this as not being an exact 1:1 remake (and none of the remake ever were 1:1, but some like 4R were significantly closer to the OG than others like 2R) since Capcom does specify a "reimagined storyline" but honestly I'm down for this. I'm interested to see where this is gonna go.
UPDATE:
The official site for CVR is now live, so I got the character model art. They definitely changed her model quite a bit.
