Resident Evil 7 Biohazard and recent remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 are available now for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, publisher Capcom announced during a live stream on Monday. Players who have already purchased any of the three on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will receive a free upgrade (within the same console family).
The current-gen console updates for these three Resident Evil games support 4K resolution graphics, higher frame rates and ray tracing on PS5 and Xbox Series X, as well as 3D audio support.
The PlayStation 5 versions take advantage of the DualSense controller’s advanced haptic feedback. In addition, owners of this game will be provided with a patch for free that will bring the same upgrades to PC.
resident Evil 2a remake of the 1998 game of the same name released in January 2019 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Resident Evil 3also a remake of its 1999 namesake, released in April 2020 on the same platforms. Both feature gigantic, unstoppable villains (Mr. X in RE2; nemesis one RE3), which spawned a cottage industry of humorous substitution mods.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, was released in 2017 and was the first feature-length release to use Capcom’s RE Engine (as were the two subsequent remakes). It is also the first Resident Evil game to use a full first-person perspective of the player.
