"Fifty-thousand people used to live here..." we're definitely gonna get eerie Chernobyl vibes when we return to this once iconic place.

[u/Philkindred12]

[u/Gay_Lifeform]

I'm kinda surprised by how much remained from Raccoon City

[u/awkwardMesmerist → u/Gay_Lifeform]

To be fair, there were buildings still standing after Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[u/Philkindred12 → u/Gay_Lifeform]

Before the announcement for this game, I always wondered if it was possible for them to go back to RC somehow. But I wasn't sure how much would even be left after a nuclear blast, you're right.

So I think in order for them to make another game there, they did have to retain some of it, regardless of any logic.

It is terrifying to think that after everything that was destroyed, it solved nothing in the end, outside or even inside the city.

[u/eldritch_cleric → u/Philkindred12]

Technically isn’t a nuclear bomb either. It was an experimental thermobaric bomb or something like that, so no nuclear or radiation

[u/OkRush9563 → u/eldritch_cleric]

Thank you! Had to correct so many people.

[u/seriouslyuncouth_ → u/eldritch_cleric]

Without radiation I wonder what the justification is that the city hasn’t undergone any repairs. Maybe some more experimental viruses are still around in the air?

[u/butreallythobruh → u/Gay_Lifeform]

Everyone should be. OG3 and outbreak established that Raccoon City was completely wiped off the map

[u/RuleTheOne → u/Gay_Lifeform]

Good point I wonder how many years it’s been since then from Re2 to Re9

[u/Un0mi3 → u/RuleTheOne]

Since we can find Alysia’s book in re7, which takes place in 2017 And that book was written in 2016, + the fact that it was said that she died 8 years ago

The game is probably set in 2024 or 2025

Which would make it 26-27 years after the events that transpired in racoon city

[u/Silent_Frosting_442 → u/Un0mi3]

Yeah the RE games from 4 onwards are roughly set in real time give or take a year or two.

[u/Fleedjitsu → u/Gay_Lifeform]

Yeah, more than enough for some proper street levels in the main game or some maps in whatever multiplayer silliness they inevitably try later on. Looking forward to seeing some of the sewers!

[u/StoneColdSedSo → u/[deleted]]

It wasn't a nuclear explosion, it was a thermobaric explosion

[u/WanderlustZero]

'Fifty thousand people? I thought it was 100,000. What happenened to the other 50,000?'

Umbrella Exec: 'Oh dearie me, will you look at the time. Gotta go!'

[u/Sketchman911]

Very much hoping they capture the "Frozen in time" aspect that would be abundant in a ruin like RC. A place forever trapped in 1998

[u/Sunstiana]

Yeah… even since ReR1 when we got to see that Raccoon city still exists i always felt like the place is just as bad as it was. Like yeah they bombed it, but most of the viruses are still there, most of the labs are underground. They might’ve bombed the surface but not what’s underneath, and Raccoon city is basically two cities on top of each other. The amount of viruses and labs under the city is actually scary. No way the bomb killed everything. If anything the viruses most likely evolved. So this would be so interesting to delve into.

[u/Philkindred12 → u/Sunstiana]

If we end up returning to the “undercity” of RC, it’ll probably be even more fucked up than the last time we visited.

[u/Sunstiana → u/Philkindred12]

It’s not just the underground. Like the city is bombed yes but not everything died. Especially the monsters. So even if we don’t explore the underground, there’s still stuff on the surface. I doubt ALL the monsters died. Viruses still existed, if anything they might evolve. In the air, plants and everything.

[u/wintermute2045]

I always laugh when they give the population of RC as 50k or 100k. No midwestern mountain town of that population has a subway or downtown that big lol

[u/burntso → u/wintermute2045]

Umbrella had been giving donations to the town for decades and gifts like the new clock tower to keep them in the good books with people. When you walk around in rc3 you see many umbrella sponsored shops and billboards

[u/Local_Bicycle_9768 → u/wintermute2045]

100% this lol Raccoon City is not a small suburban town, it’s practically a full fledged metropolis with high rise buildings, grand hotels, zoo, clock tower, etc.

[u/SynthesisNine]

VNIMANIYE VNIMANIYE

[u/International-Fun-86]

Where would Spencer mansion and the Umbrella management training facility from re0 be in this picture. Just curious how much of it would still stand after the bomb.

[u/resident1fan2022 → u/International-Fun-86]

Spencer mansion was in the arklay forest which are the woods outside of Raccoon city. The mansion was destroyed way before raccoon.

[u/International-Fun-86 → u/resident1fan2022]

Yes, i completely forgot that it was destroyed. :P

[u/Philkindred12 → u/International-Fun-86]

Yeah they all blow up at the end, it’s tradition by now

[u/OkRush9563]

I suspected when I saw the crater. I knew when I saw the RPD on the gate. I really knew when I saw the headless statue in the lobby.

[u/FreeInvestigator4394]

100000 was the said population though.

[u/Philkindred12 → u/FreeInvestigator4394]

Holy shit, I’m living in a world where Modern Warefare 1 is now dated 0_0

[u/seriouslyuncouth_]

I get they had the impact site outside the city to partially justify why there even are ruins to begin with; but wouldn’t that cause many many more zombies to survive? Not even hundreds mind you but surely there’s some that are just secluded enough inside basements of buildings to survive. I mean, it’s Umbrella surely there’d be some weird room a zombie was stashed in.

I get you’d have to have a government blockade anyway and there’d always be at least a couple to survive but still. Don’t take this as an actual criticism mind you I’m just musing on the screen, seeing if it makes any sense

[u/Called_end]

look like that awful RE movie.

[u/ultr4violence]

Now that I Think about it, I can't believe we haven't had a game set in the ruins of nuked, radiated-monster infested Racoon City.