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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 87656, member: 27"]
A 9.5 Metacritic user score just landed Resident Evil Requiem in a tie for the highest-rated game ever by players.

Requiem's launch week by the numbers
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[*]Resident Evil Requiem pulled 340K-plus concurrent players on Steam at drop.
[*]Capcom hasn't put out any official sales data yet.
[*]PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2 all got it simultaneously.
[*]Critics and fans are both showering it with love.
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Metacritic's all-time user rankings shaken up
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[*]Requiem sits tied at 9.5 with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for the top spot.
[*]Clair Obscur briefly fell behind before clawing back to a deadlock.
[*]Scores will probably keep leapfrogging as more ratings trickle in.
[*]Silent Hill 2, Chrono Trigger, and Metal Gear Solid 3 all got bumped down.
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Game of the Year race heating up early
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[*]Resident Evil Requiem already looks like a legit 2026 GOTY contender.
[*]Staying power is the real question for both top-ranked titles.
[*]Fresh releases rarely jump straight into all-time-great conversations like this.
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What the review actually said
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[*]Nathan Birch gave props for stitching a decade of franchise evolution into one beast.
[*]The scariest and most intense stretches the series has ever delivered got highlighted.
[*]Some portions land as just okay, but nothing registers as outright bad.
[*]Requiem should hit enough of the right notes for most longtime fans.
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