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 Enlargement (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, extra treasures will probably 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 totally different content material packs, presumably obtainable individually along with being bundled within the $70 Digital Deluxe model. These packs embody principally outfits and beauty choices, but in addition 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 does not this instance appear significantly… 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 previous. 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 Hold, Inferno Armor, Zaeed—The Value of Revenge (opens in new tab): pure, unadulterated content material.
It is not exactly clear what the Treasure Map Enlargement’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 specific distaste for these premium weapons as properly—the Sentinel 9 pistol (opens in new tab), seemingly primarily based 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 without cost on the first save level as a substitute 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 will 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 might ever maintain a candle to my treasured Red9 (opens in new tab).