Capcom revealed that zombies will return in the game because of the popularity of the undead and feedback from the fans.
Capcom said that the classic undead enemies will return in the game due to fan feedback from the previous games. Executive producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi said:
“We tried to respond to the requests and put them in this game. We tweaked them a bit so they aren’t the same zombies you would expect. The zombies when you first see them, they shamble around slowly. But, if they spot you or they get closer they break out into a sudden dash and try to grab you. We tried to make this as instantaneous as possible. Some of them will leap out at you. For the most part, they are zombies, but they have a bursts of energy here and there that give them a little extra oomph.”
Zombies will also have weapons in Resident Evil 6. “It’s not that we decided zombies should use weapons per se, it’s just that we wanted to get across the feeling that these used to be people and people either picked up weapons when they were fighting or they used certain objects when they were alive. They have this instinctual ability to pick up these things and use them.”
“It’s not that they are purposely using weapons, it’s in the back of their mind because they used to use weapons before they became zombies.” Kobayashi announced that there will be other ways the player can fight the undead which are revealed at a later date.
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