100 Things You Never Knew About Resident Evil
12. David Ford's Face
The Steamforged Games Resident Evil board games are perfect for Resi fans who also play love to game on the tabletop, and they're dripping with attention to detail and a deep love for the franchise. For example, the RE2 expansion "Retro Pack" (which features every card in the game reprinted to look more like the 1998 game) features a card of the Rebecca Chambers basketball outfit specifically 50 cards into the unshuffled deck - a nod to the 50 times the player has to search the desk to find the photo in the game.
In an episode of the First Aid Spray Podcast, lead designer of Resident Evil 3: The Board Game Sherwin Matthews lamented that Capcom turned down his request to create an expansion for the game called "Beginning of the End". This would've allowed players to play as UBCS mercenaries and RPD officers during the early days of the outbreak.
One of these characters would've been David Ford, an important name for RE loreheads as, through various notes across the games that feature the RPD, he tells the story of the downfall of the precinct. Since he only appears in files, nobody knows what David looks like. This expansion would've given him both character art and a miniature, meaning the first Capcom approved look at the character.
But they didn't approve it and so sadly it never came to be.