As reported by GamesRadar (opens in new tab), eagle-eyed customers on ResetEra (opens in new tab) observed a Microsoft Retailer itemizing for a “Resident Evil 4 Treasure Map Growth (opens in new tab),” seemingly a part of the sport’s Digital Deluxe Version. The content material pack’s description reads: “Uncover the hidden treasures that await! With this map, further treasures can be positioned all through the sport. A few of these treasures can solely be obtained by this methodology.”
A fast perusal of RE4’s Microsoft Retailer web page (opens in new tab) reveals a complete of 13 completely different content material packs, presumably accessible individually along with being bundled within the $70 Digital Deluxe model. These packs embrace largely outfits and beauty choices, but additionally two new weapons and the aforementioned treasure map.
We have been residing within the age of the $70 Digital Deluxe Version for an excellent lengthy whereas now, however would not this instance appear notably… odious? I am not precisely railing towards the heavens that my $60 is not sufficient to get me “Romantic (opens in new tab)” or “Informal” outfits for twenty first century mind belief Leon Kennedy and Ashley Graham, it simply makes me really feel drained and outdated. I am flashing again to all of the cross promotion armor and day-one DLC we have been confronted with throughout BioWare’s peak productiveness interval below EA possession. You recognize, your Blood Dragon Armor(s) (opens in new tab), Warden’s Maintain, Inferno Armor, Zaeed—The Value of Revenge (opens in new tab): pure, unadulterated content material.
It isn’t exactly clear what the Treasure Map Growth’s vaunted treasures entail, however my guess is it is extra vendor trash to promote to my beloved Scottish pirate service provider in alternate for doubtful firearm modifications. In most states of the Union outdoors Texas, it’s extremely unlawful to provide an odd masked man a “spinel” in alternate for a high-capacity journal, and RE4’s set within the firearm-averse European Union!
I discover I’ve a selected distaste for these premium weapons as effectively—the Sentinel 9 pistol (opens in new tab), seemingly based mostly on Leon’s gun from a type of CGI Resident Evil motion pictures, and the Cranium Shaker shotgun (opens in new tab), an admittedly fairly dope Winchester 1887 lever-action shotgun. Like several good Digital Deluxe weapon, you simply get them at no cost on the first save level as an alternative of getting them organically mixed with the sport’s development, and I would argue these freebies conflict with RE4’s completely calibrated pacing and itemization.
However who am I kidding with all this grousing, I am going to nonetheless purchase Resident Evil 4 for the fourth time when it comes out on March 23, despite the fact that I discover that unfurling scroll of “premium content material” so tiresome. No Digital Deluxe handgun on Earth may ever maintain a candle to my valuable Red9 (opens in new tab).
