Resident Evil 6 x Left 4 Dead 2

Capcom and Valve are pleased to announce the Resident Evil 6 x Left 4 Dead 2 project. This crossover project between two of the interactive entertainment industry's most respected publishers will see characters from Left 4 Dead™ 2 featured exclusively in the forthcoming PC version of Resident Evil™ 6, while enemies from Resident Evil 6 will invade the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2. All content will be made available completely free for fans of either game to access and play.

Owners of Resident Evil 6 PC will be able to select one of four survivors from Left 4 Dead 2's iconic cast – Coach, Nick, Ellis and Rochelle – when playing PC exclusive mode, The Mercenaries No Mercy. Each character will have a special customized weapon load-out created just for use in Resident Evil 6. In addition to the four survivors, two of the infamous Special Infected zombies from the Left 4 Dead franchise – the Witch and Mini Tank – will also make a cameo appearance in this mode, relentlessly attacking players regardless of whether a character from Left 4 Dead 2 or Resident Evil 6 is chosen. This new and exclusive content will automatically be downloaded in the background to all owners of the PC version of Resident Evil 6 from April 5.

Making the leap to the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2 will be some of Resident Evil 6's most fearsome enemies – Lepotitsa, Napad and Ogroman. All three characters were brought to life in Left 4 Dead 2 by Valve's renowned developers using its Steam Workshop tools. Owners of the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2 will be able to face a new deadly challenge when Resident Evil 6 characters infect Valve's classic zombie title this spring.

Commenting on the crossover project, Chet Faliszek from Valve stated: "We're huge Resident Evil fans, so when the opportunity arose to work directly with Capcom to combine L 4 D 2 and RE 6, we jumped at it."

Resident Evil 6 Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi added: "The Resident Evil 6 team really enjoyed working on this crossover, and we're confident that our fans will have a great time with it too! We hope you enjoy this unique content."

... okay...?

Link or it didn't happen.

Let's take this to it's logical conclusion and announce Half-Life x Street Fighter v Portal / Megaman Hyper Omega Gamma.

edited 16th Mar '13 9:50:15 AM by Rotpar

A simple google search would have told you everything you need to know. Come on.

If somebody makes a post about it, it's only common sense for them to provide the link themselves, though.

I personally have no interest in anything Resident Evil-related, and I'm not a big fan of L 4 D either, but if Valve and Capcom are teaming up, even if it's for this it's got to be good, right?

This might be interesting...what, was the zombie disease caused by Umbrella trying to create a new virus? I know it was a mutated strain of rabies or something but it's not implausible for Umbrella to be their typical Stupid Evil selves and try it.

This is an interesting idea. Gotta wonder how L 4 D 2 would handle the Ogroman though. And what is the Mini-tank?

I hope the RE 6 enemies being in L 4 D 2 aren't just reskins.

Capcom's actual press release wasn't enough?

edited 16th Mar '13 9:15:07 PM by JAF1970

Not everybody watched it, myself included.

PC only right? Dang. I've been meaning to grab Resident Evil 6 if the price is right.

Apparently it didn't sell that well, so I might be able to pick it up cheap.

It isn't bad, but I think of it as suffering the problem that Guilty Crown had; trying to throw as many elements and setpieces as they could at the screen without thinking of coherence.

And of course, this:

And now, L 4 D 2 will suffer from this.

.... Again with the QTE song, common give them some slack

Not as long as it's funny.

Hey, it's the truth.

Arguable. RE6's QTE have fixed buttons and timings. You remember when they pop out, it's smooth sailing. Of course, higher difficulties mean you still have a chance to fail, but it's nowhere even near 4 and 5.

It fits better than I thought.

Jesus christ since when did Mercenaries mode get so chaotic?

Sold

Is all that attack countering an RE 6 thing? I played it for a hot minute but don't remember being nearly that capable defensively.

Kind of wish I could get a discounted version just for the Mercenaries mode.

It's a tricky thing to master but yeah you can counter most enemy attacks in RE 6.

edited 22nd Mar '13 9:22:16 PM by Spirit

And if all else fails.... HAMMER THE BUTTONS AND WIGGLE THE STICKS!!!!

So with this kind of precedent what crossover will we be getting next? Evil Gear? Hazard Shock? Dead Resident?

All of these would be cool. I'm going to go write a ton of fanfiction now.

edited 22nd Mar '13 11:14:05 PM by ShirowShirow

Are there trailers of the L 4 D 2 one's footage?