Fresh off of unveiling a bizarre trailer for his upcoming horror game The Evil Within, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami revealed to IGN that his motivation for this title is the total lack of real survival horror games in the industry these days.
"Having the player pick up the controller and being genuinely able to say 'Wow, I haven't played a game this scary in ages!', that is what we are after. That is the main thing we are focused on," he said. "For me, personally, why I came back to survival horror is that survival horror as a genre is becoming all action now. There aren't any real survival horror games in the world right now. That is the biggest motivation for me."
Mikami is preaching to the choir in terms of survival horror fans, although fans of Amnesia and the upcoming game Outlast may have something to say about that. Regardless, it's an alarmingly under-represented genre right now and it is refreshing to see a person of influence attempting to fix that.
Mikami left Capcom after working on Resident Evil 4 and eventually formed new development studio Tango Gameworks, whose first game will be The Evil Within published by Bethesda. The Evil Within is expected to release sometime in 2014.
Written by: Mike Glubish
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on Sep 24th 2011 9:30PM
