Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps will not include a single-player story mode 

Capcom producers Masachika Kawata and James Vance outlined the scale and scope of the upcoming competitive cover-based shooter

GameSpot (via VG247), noting that the game will not feature a traditional single-player campaign.

, Kawata explains that the game will focus on background details within the Resident Evil universe, instead of forging its own storyline.

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is set in the present day of Resident Evil, which means it’s after the events of

,” Kawata said. “It’s almost in an ironic way that we’re using the title

If you know your Resident Evil lore, Umbrella no longer exists at this time in the universe; it’s been destroyed. There’s definitely a kind of a background of the Resident Evil universe that forms the basis of the game’s premise.”

places its narrative focus on corporate mercenary factions that scour Umbrella’s ruins for lingering biotechnology experiments and research materials.

“The mercenaries are hired by these corporations […] to go into these areas where some kind of biological terror incident may have occurred to try to extract something with value,” Vance stated. “In that regard, these areas will tie into the Resident Evil universe quite strongly, and there’s many things that you’ll see there, that we can’t reveal at this time, that have strong Resident Evil hooks.”

would feature a story campaign, Vance stated that “There’s no forward-facing story,” implying a multiplayer-only focus for the upcoming release.

will similarly abandon its series-standard campaign mode on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, focusing instead on its competitive multiplayer component.

Announced at Tokyo Game Show earlier this month,

is a third-person shooter in the vein of previous series spinoff