Resident Evil producer says currently ‘no plans’ for Code Veronica remake

A Capcom producer has claimed the company currently has no plans to remake cult classic Resident Evil instalment Code: Veronica.

Speaking to website Noisy Pixel, series producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi said that there were no concrete plans to develop a Resident Evil Code: Veronica Remake, but didn’t totally rule out the opportunity, stating that if the “opportunity comes, maybe.”

Code Veronica was released for Dreamcast in 2000 (and later on other platforms), and canonically takes place between Resident Evil 2 and 3. So in terms of Capcom’s ongoing efforts to remake the series, it’s technically been overlooked.

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The game follows protagonists Claire Redfield and her brother Chris Redfield as they fight to survive a zombie outbreak at a remote prison island in Antarctica.

It’s claimed that Code Veronica was originally intended to be a full mainline sequel to Resident Evil 2, before a Sony exclusivity deal saw it rebranded as a spin-off.

Veronica was technically the last Resident Evil title to focus purely on survival horror, before Resident Evil 4 took the franchise in a more action-oriented direction.

An updated version of the game, Code: Veronica X, was released for PS2 (2001) and GameCube (2003), and later ported to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011.

Announced earlier this year, the Resident Evil 4 remake will release on March 24, 2023 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4 and PC via Steam. The game will also support PlayStation VR 2.

On Friday, VGC published hands-on impressions with Resident Evil 4 remake, writing: “it clearly signals that Capcom knows there are some things it shouldn’t change for the sake of it, and when it’s important to be faithful. And that makes us far more optimistic for this remake than we were before we played it.”