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A Capcom representative issued a statement to IGN clarifying that the microtransactions are included in the optional Raid Mode and not “within the main campaign.” The Raid Mode features two “life crystals” variants that are used to respawn, which players can either earn (blue crystals) or purchase (red crystals).

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“Life Crystals are ONLY for Raid Mode. Players can earn them for free in Daily Missions or they can be purchased. They allow players to continue if they die during a Raid mission rather than starting that mission from the beginning. Players can enjoy all that Raid mode has to offer without any purchase of Life Crystals. They are absolutely not an essential item players must invest in in order to complete the mode.”

Raid Mode is a run-and-gun side mode that was first featured in Resident Evil: Revelations. Capcom recently revealed that Raid Mode will be offline only for solo or split-screen co-op for the first few weeks. Online capability will be added shortly after the final episode's launch in March.

There will be more than 200 "increasingly difficult" Raid Mode missions across the game's four episodes. Episode 1 will offer Claire and Barry's story mode content and 54 Raid Mode missions across three difficulty settings. Episodes 2 and 3 will each have 36 Raid Mode missions and Episode 4 will offer 68 missions.

Capcom is delaying Resident Evil: Revelations 2 by one week for “polishing work and gameplay optimisation.” Originally scheduled for a February 17 release , the first episode is now scheduled to launch on February 25 worldwide (that's February 24 for North America) for Xbox One, Xbox 360, Steam, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.

Jenna Pitcher is a freelance journalist writing for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter