Finally, the Resident Evil 4 we are most familiar with was shown at E3 2004. The Resident Evil 4 Unseen Saga didn’t end there, though. After about a year of the Gamecube release, Resident Evil 4 was ported to the Playstation 2 with a few new locations.
I think Capcom had been recycling old ideas and the series to them was getting a little stale and people who had been with Resident Evil moved onto new projects. Capcom wanted to bring in something new and win back the fans so the focus on the game changed from surival horror to surival action with a lot less back-tracking in the game. However I do like some elements from the early versions of RE4. They seemed to have a bit more atmosphere and more tension. The current RE4 doesn't have a lot to do with the old series and it's not very scary. QUOTE='Kayrod29'Capcom changed it because it had a lot of paranormal occurences, and they stated Resident Evil series is not about ghosts or demonic entities but about zombies, creatures, and other things of that nature (no pun intended) -Prime- Exactly. That game would have been less like Resident Evil than the version we got.
Leave the ghosts and crazy paranormal activity to Silent Hill and let Resident Evil give us the plausible viruses/mutants. Las Plagas in RE4 plausible?
The story about that is like some poor B movie. In the early versions of RE4, Leon Kennedy gets inflected with the Progenitor virus (virus from RE0 and prototype of the T-virus), so he starts hallucinating as the virus slowly tries to take over his body. This explain the odd dolls, ghosts. Actually the reason the early versions got cancelled was because they were too similar to the original series (even with the dolls and the hooked man) and as I said before Capcom wanted to win back the fans so a new style of gameplay was created which is the RE4 that we know today.