With the launch of Resident Evil 5 today, Capcom has announced a new game in the series, this time for the Wii.  The new game is called Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, and is a sequel to the Wii exclusive two player co-op Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles.

The new game is being co-produced by RE5 Producer  Masachika Kawata. As an on rails shooter, Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles takes players through the story of Resident Evil 2 starring Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy.  According to the press release the game will offer a more "in-depth co-op experience."  We aren't quite sure what that is, but at least Capcom is living up to their promise of providing more co-op games.

Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles is set to launch later this year with 2 player local co-op.  We have the announcement trailer straight ahead.

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Interesting. Now to finish up Umbrella Chronicles...

And I need to get my Wii back from my parents.

It looks like they are going to include RE2 and all of the other Claire-centric RE games, awesome!

You can see Leon in the screenshot above, does that mean separate perspectives? Would that mean online play, also?