8 Video Games That Started Out Totally Different

1. Resident Evil 4

With the first Resident Evil game, Capcom made sure the genre of survival horror was going to be a thing to stick around in the gaming industry. Then they only went from strength to strength with later mainline titles, but after the third main instalment and the weird place Code Veronica went, it was time for a change.

Feeling that the games had become stale and the fixed camera perspective just wasn’t doing it anymore, Shinji Mikami wanted to take the brand of Resident Evil and make something new. Throughout the development of the fourth major RE game, there were many standouts and one was almost greenlit.

This game was a lot more action-focused and enemies like demons instead of the traditional zombie, we would later find out this became Devil May Cry. Capcom went back to the drawing board and RE4 almost became a castle explorer until Shinji Mikami took full control of the project.

From here we got a ghostly supernatural take on RE before it was all scrapped once more, for a somewhat more grounded game.

And with that, Resident Evil, third-person games and the industry as a whole were changed forever.