Separate Ways tells a parallel story to that of the main game which neatly dovetails in numerous key places. The difference looked jarring enough on the Wii, let alone last year's PS3 and Xbox 360 updates - or the new 1080p PC version.
Resident Evil 4's original real-time cut-scenes were restored for subsequent versions, but the new content found in Separate Ways was never converted. Seperate Ways was first included in the game's PlayStation 2 version, which pre-rendered all of the cut-scenes to squeeze better performance from Sony's aging machine. It's disappointing but somewhat unsurprising - Capcom has never smartened up the story scenes found within its Ada Wong-centric tale despite the mode being present in all but the original GameCube release.
The swanky 1080p 60fps PC re-release of Resident Evil 4 still uses PlayStation 2-quality cut-scenes in the game's Separate Ways mode.Ĭapcom community manager Brett Elston confirmed the news in the comments thread of a recent Capcom Unity blog post.
