For those unaware, The Mercenaries is a separate sub-game of Resident Evil 4 and 5 that drops the player into a sort of arena in which to rack up a high score stringing together ever-lengthening combos of zombie kills. There’s barely any storyline to the action, just a white-knuckled frenzy of strategic, bullet riddled, explosioney, splattery mayhem. I spent more time trying to rack up high scores with all the various characters in The Mercenaries than I did completing the story mode for either 4 or 5.

It seems like a worthy game to stand on its own, and Nintendo is delivering the first Mercenaries-only title for the 3DS. Check the above trailer to see the cast list of familiar faces. Chris’s sister Claire, who’s been MIA for awhile, is the only character new to Mercenaries action, and she joins her man-mountain, lethal haymaker-punching brother and his partner Jill Valentine, series villain/semi-superhuman Albert Wesker, obligatory spunky school-girl/S.T.A.R.S. medic Rebecca Chambers, mysteriously unkillable Umbrella PMC merc and gas mask fashion model HUNK, rogue supersoldier Jack Krauser, and Resident Evil’s hilariously overpowered Epic Beard Man with explosive headbutts, Barry Burton. Sorry Leon, guess you’re on the bench for this one.