30 Things You Didn't Know About The Resident Evil Series

12. The Original Game's Live Action Intro Was Censored In America

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The games industry of the 90s was a whole different beast to the one we have today.

It was much, much more difficult to get violence past the censors twenty years ago, so there's no surprise that Resident Evil's original live action intro was butchered to cut out its more extreme scenes.

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