Resident Evil 4is a seminal game, and easily one of the franchise’s most popular entries. Thus, when its remake was officially announced, fans had more stipulations on what they wanted to see faithfully recreated from the original.Resident Evil 4has a lot more content thanResident Evil 2andResident Evil 3, resulting ina lot more content for Capcom to potentially cut in theRE4remake. It should please fans to hear that nearly all the original game’s content has returned, with plenty of attention to detail.
The remake features new content from the original as well, but these additions to gameplay or narrative largely serve to elaborate on key sequences and story beats instead of subsuming them entirely. There is content from the original game that is not currently in theResident Evilremake, but several signs point to this content being doled out at some point in the future as post-launch DLC. FollowingtheResident Evil 4remake’s free post-launch Mercenaries DLC, its main narrative could benefit from DLC adding a playable Ada Wong.
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Resident Evil 4 Remake Sees Ada Following in Leon’s Footsteps
Resident Evil 4’s Separate Waysand Assignment: Ada campaigns are not presently confirmed for the remake, though it is likely that at least one of these campaigns will become available as either free or purchasable post-launch DLC. If this is not Capcom’s plan, it would seem redundant for the remake to have cutscenes featuring Ada to the extent it currently does.
The point of seeing Ada in cutscenes throughout the original game was later seeing how those events tie into her role during Separate Ways, when players can experience what she was going through directly. This includes some incredible revelatory moments, such as learning that Ada is the personwho rings the church bell and saves Leon during the village mob ambush.
TheResident Evil 4remake already prefaces this side-campaign in the main game’s narrative. Leon literally name-drops “Separate Ways” in his final conversation with Ada before fleeing from the island with Ashley, so it’s clear Capcom is still thinking about that content.
Resident Evil 4 Remake Has Huge Post-Launch DLC Potential
This should be all the evidence fans need to presume a Separate Ways DLC expansion should be coming at some point in the near future. However,dataminers have also allegedly found evidence of Separate Ways DLCbeing in development. This comes from the supposed discovery of a file codenamed “_anotherorder,” which is a clear not to the term “The Another Order” being the original name associated withResident Evil 4’s Separate Ways.
Still, without any clear confirmation from Capcom, it is unknown if such a DLC will be part of the remake’s future. Assignment: Ada seems like a more unlikely addition, especially iftheResident Evil 4remake’s post-credits sequence is already a deliberate twist on that non-canon campaign’s final cutscene. Otherwise, Capcom might have ideas for how to integrate this mini-game into a brief DLC episode similar to some of the more ephemeral DLC included inResident Evil 7.
Resident Evil 4is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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