Fighting cockroach Shinji Mikami: Resident Evil’s father talks about his unusual game canceled

Studio founded in 2010 Tango Gameworksled by the father of the series Resident Evil Shinji Mikami, managed to release a horror dilogy in ten years The Evil Within and put into production GhostWire: TokyoHowever, initially, one of the very first projects of the young team was supposed to be an action game about the adventures of a combat cockroach.… The game designer shared an interesting detail in an interview with the publication Variety

The developer said that in the first months of work Tango Gameworks planned to take on three titles at once – an AAA product and two relatively small releases. At the same time, the game about a fighting cockroach even managed to get a fully working prototype.

“At first we had a game where the main character was an ordinary cockroach. His goal is to defeat humanity. kill people, “said Shinji Mikami.

The project about the cockroach failed to see the light – he was sent to the trash can and Mikami after several creative iterations, he set about creating a horror movie that would later become known as The Evil Within

Today Tango Gameworks is completing work on its next big release – a mystical action movie GhostWire: Tokyo

Himself Shinji Mikami recently announced that he is personally ready to lead the development of another game, but only on condition that he has complete creative freedom in his hands

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