You'll have the choice of controlling a police officer, journalist, surgeon, plumber, subway worker, waitress, worker from a security company, and a mysterious young girl. In addition, each character will have their own special abilities and some will be more useful in certain situations.
Resident Evil Online can support up to four players online simultaneously. If there aren't four human players in a game, the PlayStation 2 will control any remaining characters. Teamwork appears to play a major role in RE Online, but the game will force you to play certain segments alone. Eventually, you'll meet back up with the other players though.
One interesting thing to note about RE Online is the fact that the backgrounds are generated in real time. Apparently, Capcom has effectively utilized the PS2 hardware so that backgrounds can be generated on the fly without compromising the quality of the character models. As you can tell from the screenshots below, RE Online still looks very nice despite the lack of pre-rendered backgrounds.
Resident Evil Online will be out in Japan in the Spring of 2003, but the North American version will most likely be released Fall 2003containing both broadband and for you poor dial-up personels.
