Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV, Bionic Commando head to PC

Capcom announced Friday morning that Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV and Bionic Commando will all be coming to PC, starting with SFIV and Bionic Commando which will arrive this July. No date has been set for the Resident Evil 5 release, but Capcom stated it will be available later this year.

Capcom also announced the ability to utilize NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision goggles for use in Resident Evil 5, and the option to use three different "shaders" to alter the look of Street Fighter IV. The full press release appears below.

London - May 1, 2009 - Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced that three of its blockbuster hit console games of 2009 will be coming to the PC beginning this summer. Bionic Commando, Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5 will all be coming to the PC, beginning in July with Street Fighter IV and Bionic Commando, while Resident Evil 5 comes later in the year. All three games will be optimized for the PC platform and will have new PC-specific features added to the already great games. All three games will be available both at retail and via various digital distribution methods.

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Capcom announced Friday morning that Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV and Bionic Commando will all be coming to PC, starting with SFIV and Bionic Commando which will arrive this July. No date has been set for the Resident Evil 5 release, but Capcom stated it will be available later this year.

Capcom also announced the ability to utilize NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision goggles for use in Resident Evil 5, and the option to use three different "shaders" to alter the look of Street Fighter IV. The full press release appears below.

London - May 1, 2009 - Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced that three of its blockbuster hit console games of 2009 will be coming to the PC beginning this summer. Bionic Commando, Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5 will all be coming to the PC, beginning in July with Street Fighter IV and Bionic Commando, while Resident Evil 5 comes later in the year. All three games will be optimized for the PC platform and will have new PC-specific features added to the already great games. All three games will be available both at retail and via various digital distribution methods.

Street Fighter IV features a mix of returning favourites such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile along with new characters created for this game, such as Crimson Viper, Abel, El Fuerte, and Rufus. Characters and environments are rendered in stylized 3D, while the game is played in the classic Street Fighter 2D perspective with additional 3D camera flourishes. Instantly familiar six-button controls are the hallmark of the game, with a host of new special moves and features. Mixing classic genre-defining game mechanics the franchise is known and loved for with all-new, never-before-seen gameplay systems, Street Fighter IV brings a brand new fighting experience to fans the world over. The PC version of Street Fighter IV will feature online play, higher screen resolutions and three new shaders based on three of the "artistic" trailers released in 2008 that will change the visual appearance of the game: "watercolour," "poster" and "sumi-e ink" styles. Street Fighter IV PC is scheduled for release throughout PAL territories on July 3.

The first true sequel to the classic 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System original, Bionic Commando sees the return of the bionically-enhanced Nathan "Rad" Spencer. Time has not been kind to Spencer: 10 years after his heroic defeat of the Imperials, he has been betrayed by the government he swore to serve, imprisoned for crimes he didn't commit, and sentenced to death. Bionic Commando transposes the swing-and-shoot gameplay of the 8-bit original onto a stunning 3D environment of towering buildings, suspended roadways and monorails, deep canyons and sheer rock faces, where every environment is scalable using swinging, repelling, climbing and wall-walking techniques. The PC version of Bionic Commando will support higher resolutions than the console version, remappable controls including mouse and keyboard support, support for both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 and online connectivity for multiplayer sessions.

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