In a video uploaded to the Rustic Games BR YouTube channel, a team of modders are taking the 2017 fright fest that was Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and demaking it to give it that original PlayStation look. Although only short, the clip shows what the FPS horror title would look like if it had fixed camera angles, tank controls, and anachronistic visuals that belong more in the mid-1990s than in the 21st century.
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Sadly, according to a report, the modders are not looking to make this RE7 demake available to the public, adding that it’s just a demo being made in the Unreal Engine. That is a bit of a shame as Capcom’s game is one of the best horror titles of the last console generation, so many fans would love to be able to play a fan-made version of the game that essentially hearkens back to the original trilogy from the 90s. Having said that, it’s possible that the team doesn’t want to incur the wrath of the original developer and publisher, given the potential copyright infringement lawsuit they could be slapped with.
What’s also interesting is that this is not the first demake of a Resident Evil game that’s been in the works by these fans. Recently, another video showed what Resident Evil 4 would look like as a PS1 game, with the same graphical down tuning and play style. Other games that have been demade by others include The Witcher 3, The Last of Us, and there was a demade trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 as well.
It seems that more and more of the community are keen to imagine newer games as retro PSX entries, or perhaps older. There’s even a Doom demake that brings the game to Atari 2600, which shows that it’s not always newer games that fans are tinkering with. There is evidently increasing demand for turning the clock back on some of the industry’s biggest releases.
Resident Evil 7 is available on Luna, PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
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Source: DSO Gaming
