Resident Evil: 8 Memorable Characters You'll Never See Again

Through its 26 year history Resident Evil has had to evolve to survive and this has taken many forms, from perspective shifts like Resident Evil 4 to online multiplayer games like Resident Evil Resistance. We’ve previously mentioned Survivor, which kicked off a strange little series of titles all with a light-gun focus. The final release, in the west titled Resident Evil Dead Aim, may just be the weirdest one of them all as it combines third-person exploration that switches to first-person action when the player aims their weapon.

Resident Evil Dead Aim’s cast is limited to the three most obvious roles of every story; protagonist, love interest and villain. The characters themselves however are anything but obvious.

In particular, our leading man Bruce McGivern is like a cross-between the world’s most inept agent and a misshapen Stretch Armstrong. Clearly based upon Brad Pitt’s character in the cult classic thriller Se7en, Bruce takes after his predecessor Ark with dialogue that sounds drunk; fumbled through the most impromptu southern drawl ever concocted.

Whilst the cutscenes are decent for their time, there’s something truly horrifying and alien about Bruce McGivern’s disproportionate design that makes him a damn sight scarier than any monster that you face in the game.

Dead Aim’s story or characters don’t interact with the broader canon which has allowed Capcom to ignore this experiment and leave it, and thus Bruce, trapped on the PlayStation 2 where he probably belongs.