Capcom made it official today, the first of two scheduled add-ons for the upcoming Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will be free! That’s right I put Capcom and free in the same sentence, and the best part is there’s no catch. April 11th is when this whole free business goes down. The dlc will give you a Spec Ops mission where you’ll take on zombies, bio-organic weapons and those fancy new Umbrella security service people too. Did I forget to mention the dlc will feature Jill Valentine as well? Tentatively the add-on will also include new achievements/trophies, for those who are looking to boost their gamer scores.
Additionally on the dlc front for Operation Raccoon City, for those who checked the marketplace for add-ons this week will have noticed they already uploaded packs to unlock extra guns and costumes for the USS agents. There are four to be exact, well actually three and one option which compiles them all and adds two more guns. Before you go downloading them right now, there are free bonuses depending on where you might do a last minute pre-order, if you go through Gamestop you’ll get a code to get the Power Pack and Costumes, Amazon will fetch you the Renegade Pack and Costumes and Best Buy can set you up with Elite Pack and Costumes. Still not good enough you say? For those who can get their hands on a special edition of the game, that one comes with a code for the Weapon Stash and Costumes which will give you all of them plus the two extra guns. Or you could spend $8 later for the Weapon Stash to pick up whatever you might have missed.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City officially launches in North America on March 20th and March 23rd in Europe.