
If you're a Resident Evil fan, you probably already have a copy of RE5 spinning in your console of choice as it hit stores this past Friday (and Thursday at midnight for those that hosted midnight launch parties). We've played through and beaten the game on PS3 and Xbox 360, in singleplayer, split-screen and online co-op configurations, along with spending ample time with the Mercenaries mode; so is it a worthy successor to Resident Evil 4, or is the franchise going the way of Resident Evil Outbreak? Hit the jump and we'll get to the point

Circana data shows Resident Evil 5 as the best selling Resident Evil game in the US, ahead of Resident Evil 4 remake and Village.
So the most successful RE is the one where a white man is killing Africans.
This can't be real.

New leaks from Dusk Golem detail cancelled Resident Evil projects, including a Rebecca focused Revelations game, while stating no Resident Evil 5 remake is in development.
Capcom's willingness to invest in experiments and scrap them sets them apart form many other developers (Nintendo have a similar methodology). Far too often companies push a game setting or game mechanic that is just not that good and the final product is middling or poor.

Dusk Golem claims a Resident Evil 5 remake is not coming this year, with a Code Veronica remake expected instead.
Hopefully if and when they do a RE5 remake, they give it the RE3 remake treatment, because this is certainly one title that I don't want a faithful remake of.