Two Resident Evil's For The Wii

Capcom announces that Resident Evil 4 will get the Wii treatment, while fans of light gun shooters need look no further than Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.

Resident Evil and Nintendo have made a pretty good pair in the past, so the bar has been set quite high for two titles soon to be released for the Wii under Capcom's Resident Evil label. A recent issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals more info regarding these two upcoming games.

The first is Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, which has been so far classified as a rail shooter much in the same vein as Sega's House of the Dead series. But longtime fans of the Resident Evil series might be more interested in the game's story than how it plays, as it will show, once and for all, how the Umbrella Corporation meets its end.

Preliminary gameplay footage can be found on this brand new teaser trailer on Capcom's official Japanese site.

The other game is much less of a surprise, but still a heavily awaited game nonetheless. Essentially a port of Resident Evil 4 for the Wii, this updated version contains all of the same features found on the previously released PS2 version, with the addition of a few Wii-exclusive extras, such as the ability to use the Wii controller to actively participate in knife fights.

No word on specific release dates for either title, but Capcom has previously announced that Umbrella Chronicles will be completed and released before the end of 2007.