10 Rejected Video Game Ideas Literally EVERYONE Would've Loved

10. Zwei (Resident Evil Creator's Cancelled Horror)

When Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami announced his return to the world of horror in 2012 alongside some concept artwork of a dark and unsettling locale there was a collective rubbing together of hands within the games industry. The Godfather of survival horror was back and promising big things with his upcoming title, at the time codenamed “Zwei”.

The product this became was The Evil Within which, whilst a perfectly adequate game, was quite unremarkable. Mikami, in later years, regretted that he went back to his roots too much rather than pushed the game into new avenues of terror.

Especially because the original designs for Zwei may well have just done that. The name, German for “2”, refers to the fact the story would’ve been led by a man and a woman chained together, attempting to survive some no doubt horrible situation in their pursuit of hunting down a vampire.

Who out there can say that doesn’t sound awesome?

In general, vampires are somewhat weirdly under-represented in the horror space of video games thanks to their often kitsch and over-the-top presentation in media (be that the high collars of Dracula or the sparkling of Edward Cullen). Better yet, this would’ve pre-dated the success of co-operative focused titles like A Way Out and It Takes Two.

By walking the road more travelled, Mikami sadly left behind a exceptionally exciting idea.