Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition will be released as a full retail disc, comprising the “Lost in Nightmares” episode as well as the newly announced “Desperate Escape” episode included.

In this episode, players will control Josh Stone and Jill Valentine as they journey to assist Chris and Sheva.

There will also be two costume packs that will be included on the disc and 8 new playable characters confirmed for Mercenaries mode (thus retitling the mode “Mercenaries Reunion”).

Alternatively, for those who do not purchase the Gold Edition, both episodes as well as both costume packs will be available as DLC, with 2 of the 8 new characters bundled with each downloadable item.

This means that by buying all four DLC, players will then already own all of the content on the disc.

However, this only directly applies to the PS3 version, due to the fact that the Xbox 360 version will not contain all DLC content from the start.

The Xbox 360′s disc will instead come with a download token, allowing for a free download of all of the DLC while the PS3 version already has all new content from purchase.

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The U.S. release date for the disc is March 9, 2010, while the European release date is scheduled for March 12, 2010.

The DLC content release dates are as follows: “Lost in Nightmares” and the first costume pack was made available for download on February 17 for Xbox 360 and February 18 for PS3, while “Desperate Escape”, the second episode, and costume pack was released on March 3 (Xbox 360) and 4 (PS3).