He tells me they have shifted perspective “not just because of people’s expectations these days… but because of what we wanted to achieve with the horror expression – the intensity of an up-close, claustrophobic zombie encounter. (This is part due to the Resident Evil games that followed RE2.) But Hirabayashi believes this is one aspect that helps improve upon the original. "Audiences now expect this type of a game to take a third-person, over-the-shoulder perspective. “We felt that was a modernisation that had to happen,” admits Hirabayashi. One thing that had to be changed was the camera. While technology has obviously advanced significantly since 1998, so have people’s expectations of a modern game. Scene by scene, room by room, the same question was repeatedly asked: “Keep it, get rid of it, or update it? We wanted to find out what were the core concepts we wanted to keep pushing in this one.” The team at Capcom sat down and anatomised the 1998 sequel. “Development on the project began with a collective playthrough of Resident Evil 2.
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