Cool Resident Evil Facts

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  The inspiration for Resident Evil was the earlier Capcom game Sweet Home.
• The idea of using zombies as enemies came from George A. Romero's Dead movie series.
• The design on the back of Chris' alternate costume is a reference to an album by the rock group Queen entitled "Made in Heaven." Design is also seen on the back of Claire's vest.
• In Resident Evil 2, Chris' brown jacket, part of his alternative costume from the first title, is seen hanging above his desk in the S.T.A.R.S. office. Since it is the same office, also appears in Resident Evil 3.
• The "Made in Heaven" design on Chris' jacket and sweater has 20 bombs. The one on Claire's vest only has 16.
• An early puzzle involves playing a song on the grand piano in the mansion's bar. The composition is Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."
• Resident Evil was initially envisioned as a first-person shooter until it was decided that playing from a first-person perspective wasn't scary enough.
• A series of documents, known as the "Trevor's Letters", were proposed for the original game, but not included in the final version due to the fact that they revealed too much of the game's plot too soon. They were later restored in the GameCube remake with a few differences due to the retroactive changes made in the new version.
• Two characters appeared in an early draft of the game's storyline as Jill's and Chris' supporting characters. Gelzer, a muscular Caucasian man with a cybernetic eye, and Dewey, a thin African American man modeled after Eddie Murphy.
• The original Japanese release of the BioHazard was meant to feature Japanese voice acting for its dialog.
• The original game was put into the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008 for the "Worst Game Dialogue Ever".
• At the beginning of the game, an attempt to go back out the front door starts a FMV showing the player opening the door slowly and a Cerberus tries to dash in, but the player successfully closes the door on the enemy's face forcing it to back off.
• Biohazard was meant to be a co-operation adventure, having Chris as a main character and Jill as his support. But due to low RAM of the PlayStation, the idea was dropped and later used in Resident Evil Zero.
• According to Alyson Court the script was that bad because there wasn't much communication between North America & Japan and therefore an bad influence on the script writing.