10 Video Game Enemies We Can't Believe Got Cut
2. Resident Evil 2 - Man-Spider
The Resident Evil series has enough cut content in its history that it could fill an oversized spooky mansion with it. There’s no better example of this than what is now referred to as “Resident Evil 1.5” - the version of RE2 that got dropped about 80% of the way into its production.
Such a strange gem is this version that allows us to see early takes on classic Resident Evil 2 characters, themes and enemies. Specifically there’s a selection of the latter that got left behind completely when the project was restarted. Chiefly among them is the absolutely horrific Man-Spider.
As legendary as the Licker is, the Man-Spider called back to the scientific mish-mash of creatures in the first game by being a man-sized arachnid that ran around at quite considerable speed on a pair of additional human legs. Good luck sleeping tonight, arachnophobes.
In the final version of Resident Evil 2, the laboratory does include some plant enemies but being static they pose very little threat when you’ve got a backpack full of ammunition. Were the Man-Spider not cast aside in the project’s reboot, it would’ve given Resident Evil 2 even more variety and made the final act of the game pants-wettingly scary.
I don’t care how many shotgun shells you’ve got, if that thing runs at you it’s not a good day. Forget First Aid Spray, we need some bug spray up in here.