Two announcements:

1) Resident Evil 4 will be coming to the Wii, using the Wiimote for aiming and stabbing. While I would normally be reluctant to bother with such a purchase, Miyamoto has said that moving older games to the Wii with new controls is likely to happen, but such a product will be sold with a reduced price tag. If the entire bundle includes Seperate Ways (exclusive to the PS2 so far), then count me in.

2) Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles appears to be the game that details the fall of Umbrella that everyone always wanted. Once again, visions of running around a courthouse finding pieces of evidence comes to mind. You may remember that prophetic speech from me during my “It would be awesome to work for Capcom” phase.

Anyway, the game is said to be an on-rail shooter. I’m assuming that it will be like Killer 7, a game that I never got near due to its description as an on-rails shooter. To me, that terminology spells doom. They should seriously rebrand it. Heavily scripted, gun toting adventure perhaps? Dangerous way to spend your money?

Who am I kidding? I’ll probably buy it after reading the first review that scores above 80%.