Resi, Onimusha and DMC for PC

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 February, 2006

Ubisoft to distribute, weirdly.

Resident Evil 4, Onimusha 3 and Devil May Cry 3 are all coming out on the PC, Capcom's confirmed.

Oddly though, Capcom won't be the one driving them to the shops; Ubisoft's signed a Euro/American deal to distribute the PC versions.

The PC influx starts this month with Onimusha 3: Demon Siege - the critically acclaimed third in Keiji Inafune's hackandslash series.

Neither Capcom or Ubisoft's confirmed dates for the other two, but we'll let you know.

The big question is how well the various control schemes translate to PC. In fact, um, just buy a control pad if you haven't already. We can't really imagine DMC3 working on a keyboard...

Resi 4 on a keyboard/mouse combo though...

Soon as we get to play them, we'll let you know how they've turned out.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Blerk #1 6 years ago

    Does anyone really play action games with a keyboard any more? Surely everyone has a pad?

    Anyway - great news for the PC-only people! Share the love, etc.

  • Twinkle #2 6 years ago

    I hope its the special edition of DMC3 that they convert.

  • smelly #3 6 years ago

    Bwill news for pc owners! Hope you enjoy the brilliantness of Resi 4!

  • Kay #4 6 years ago

    RE4 in high-res should be something to behold...

    Play have both DMC3 and RE4 down for 31st March - and only £15!

    K

  • JediMasterMalik #5 6 years ago

    Ubisoft and Capcom working together sounds like a good deal for gamers and the gams announced rock so good suff.

  • Bitkari #6 6 years ago

    Does anyone really play action games with a keyboard any more? Surely everyone has a pad?

    You wouldn't believe how many PC titles don't support gamepads at all.

    Ubisoft have a particularly bad track record of releasing titles sans-gamepad support, Beyond Good & Evil being one of the most tragic examples.

  • Kon #7 6 years ago

    And what about DMC3:SE for the PS2? Any news on whether it will be released in europe or not?

  • Blerk #8 6 years ago

    And what about DMC3:SE for the PS2? Any news on whether it will be released in europe or not?

    Yes. No.

  • Kon #9 6 years ago

    Curses!!!!!111!

  • drumbaby #10 6 years ago

    I may give RE4 another shot (on PC) if I can find a control scheme that suits me more.

    Definitely getting DMC 3 again though. The same uber action but at 1024 x 768 rez -- the best just got better :)

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #11 6 years ago

    I hope they polish up RE4 for the PC, and then release it for the X360 with all the additions from the PS2/PC versions.. I'd buy it again, then.

  • Kami #12 6 years ago

    Not odd at all. Capcom got Eidos into distribute the original Resident Evil 3, after all. (Probably the one thing Eidos has done right that we can be thankful for...)

    DMC3 I thought was OK. Onimusha 3 is a great game. But RE4 is where it's at and is the big one as far as ports go. 100% with people on keyboard/mouse combo - and with the good state of PCs today, they could up the enemy count instead of lowering it!

    Only problem I see with RE4 is the trigger moments... they might translate rather poorly. (Better yet, get rid of most of 'em. They're nothing but a distraction from an excellent game anyway!)

  • aabyssx #13 6 years ago

    BTW it's even more nerve-racking. I want that Special Edition for Devil May Cry 3 here in Europe for my PS2!

    US PS2 owners have it.
    Japanese PS2 owners will have.
    Even PC owners in Europe and US will have it.

    Only European PS2 owners are pissed off again.

  • #14 6 years ago

    So the pc gets resi 4 now, but still no xbox version of the game. wat is it with capcom, the game would sell loads in the usa and europe. fuckin hate capcom for ignoring the xbox for soo long bastards!

    Wont be buying any capcom games for the 360.

  • neuroniky #15 6 years ago

    Yeah, Jason. But they won't be releasing any, anyway, so you're not really losing anything :D.

  • JonFE #16 6 years ago

    "But they won't be releasing any, anyway, so you're not really losing anything"

    How about Dead Rising, Lost Planet and, last but not least, of course, Resident Evil 5 ???
    Edited by 1 at 02/02/06 @ 14:18

  • space_ace #17 6 years ago

    > Euro/American deal

    looks like a code for e.a.

  • alexg #18 6 years ago

    So what's the point of having a console anymore...

    Console type games just feel wrong on a PC anyway.

    RE4 would seem a bit crappy and overrated I bet - and very linear and restrictive.

  • oerhoert #19 6 years ago

    Resident Evil 4 is not made for high resolutions. Hence, it will not look much better than it did on the TV screen. In fact, it will, as all other similar ports for the PC, actually be more noticable how low-res the textures really are. If not, of course, Capcom decides to re-model the entire game, which is extremely unlikely, at least until the next-gen begins to pick up and Resi 5 is still not finished, and they need the money. Even then, it's one hell of a commitment, and not likely to happen.

    So, in short... This is good news for... Who? The people that can't even be arsed to get themselves a PS2 or a Cube? I don't really care much for those people. They've lost out on loads and loads of titles already, clinging to a "PC is best for gaming" dogma with the help of these new <em>ports</em> won't help them. Get over with it. Single platform gaming is an obsolete idea, especially if you by some nasty coincidence choose the by far most expensive platform available.

    I'm a PC gamer myself, but that's just because I'm nuts enough to pay the price to have an updated rig. But losing out on all the extremely nice stuff on the consoles? That'd just be stupid.

  • Mashum #20 5 years ago

    I have this on the cube and will probably spring for it on the PC just to see it in a higher res and with the bonus content previously only available on the PS2. I wonder how nice it will look though, as oerhört said.