10 Video Game Prequels Nobody Asked For

10. Resident Evil Zero

Though not quite the black sheep of the franchise that Code Veronica X is, Resident Evil Zero is nevertheless an awkward entry into the survival horror series because it arrived at a time when it was going through a major transitional period.

Put in the unenviable position of having to follow up Capcom's superb GameCube remake of the original game, Resident Evil Zero just doesn't add much compelling to the series' overarching mythology narrative or character-wise. Sorry, Billy.

More to the point, beyond introducing character switching and an inspired new item-dropping system, Zero underlined just how tired Resident Evil's core gameplay formula was at this point, as would be so brilliantly revitalised by Resident Evil 4 a few years later.

Is it a bad game? Absolutely not: it drips with atmosphere and gives lore obsessives enough to feast on, but overall feels too much like a retread of the original Resident Evil, and given that it released less than eight months after REmake, couldn't help but seem like a cash-in.