Balancing horror and action isn't easy in a video game. Force the player to hide too much and it's hard to deliver catharsis. Give us too many weapons and armor, and there's no real sense of vulnerability. Many games have tried to find the perfect blend of these two apparently opposing concepts before, with a prime example of how not to do it being Capcom's 2012 dud Resident Evil 6.
But the developer has redeemed itself 14 years later with Resident Evil Requiem, a title that scares and thrills in generous but, most importantly, balanced measures. It takes the lauded tension of 2017's Resident Evil 7 and complements it with the pulsating combat of 2023's Resident Evil 4 Remake, and achieves this intoxicating mix by pairing two protagonists.
