


As part of this pressure, Capcom warned him of their intention to not make any new Resident Evil titles if it did not sell well. Due to repeated setbacks with scripts thrown out or models found to use more RAM than any console was capable of loading, Shinji Mikami was put under enormous pressure by Capcom to remove Shibata and take over directing duties himself. Resident Evil 4 went through a number of successive alterations since the project began in 2000, though it was always intended to be a new kind of Resident Evil game to fully utilise the power of the current-generation consoles.

Final version Further information: BIOHAZARD 4 (cancelled 2000 game), Biohazard 4 (Castle Version), Biohazard 4 (Hallucination Version), and Biohazard 4 (Zombie version)
