Mercenaries isn’t the only additional gameplay mode the VR version is missing, with the ‘Assignment Ada’ and ‘Separate Ways’ DLC also omitted. Variety was added through the option to select from one of several characters, each with their own weapon loadout. Levels were timed, with the challenge being to kill as many enemies as possible for the biggest score. While you could always replay the main campaign to unlock all the little extras, Mercenaries mode provided a far more bite-sized chunk of action, taking players back to various locations from the campaign. Why all the interest over the Mercenaries mode? Well, it’s appeared in every Resident Evil 4 videogame since the first release almost 20 years ago. However, Biohazardcast did reupload its own version of the trailer, which looks fairly genuine. Now, it looks like that was an accidental leak as the video has been made private so there’s no way to definitively confirm the details. Spotted by Biohazardcast, a video reportedly dropped via the Oculus YouTube channel confirming the popular gameplay mode would indeed arrive for Quest 2 in 2022. Over the weekend it seems a video leaked stating that the mode will be arriving next year. However, there was one glaring omission from the VR edition and that was the ‘Mercenaries’ mode which added even more replayability to the other versions.
Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 arrived as an Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 exclusive last month and it’s fair to say that the virtual reality (VR) port has been a well-received success.