So when you write your article, just know that nothing is official yet. This does not mean Europe got screwed again. There is the possibility and it is a very real possibility, if I didn't think it was doable I wouldn't tell you that it was (that it will have online mode). But then again, on the other hand, there is a very real possibility that it will not (in all honesty).

What could happen, because there are all sorts of possibilities, is that you will get a one player version that will come out and then later the network version will come out. I don't know what kind of prices they are thinking of, but they are thinking of any way they can possibly get this out on time. That been said, their goal is to make sure it is online.

One of the big key points of the game is that is takes place in real time. I don't know if you have noticed that or not. In other Resident Evil games, you could open your status screen, you could reload your gun and nothing would ever happen to you. Or you could run through a door and know all would be safe as zombies could not get through the door. This takes place all in real time so if you got to sit there and fiddle with your items in your inventory... that whole time zombies could have come... They could bite you... They could kill you, whatever.

I'll take that one step further, let's say that you are playing this game online, and this could happen with any online game, and you have to go to the bathroom. If you go to the toilet there is the very real possibility that you come back and your character is dead. So we mentioned in the last meeting: make sure that you bring beverages... food and make sure that you go to the bathroom before you start the game because you are in for the long haul. That being said, of course they don't make the scenarios too extremely long because no one wants to sit through six hours without going to the bathroom.

Each scenario, each chapter, has been cut down to an hour and a half... two hours, the first time you are going to play and you don't know where anything is. It's going to take that long.

If you get very good and you can find the quickest route, know exactly where every item is then, obviously, you will be able to finish the scenario in 40 minutes.