

The place is booby-trapped with tripwires but these can be recovered, via a simple mini-game, and used yourself.

The next scene is in some sort of waste disposal area, with grotesquely mutilated bodies being dumped via a chute system and a pool of what seems more blood than water. Trapped in a long underground corridor we pursue him, only to find out that reality has shifted behind us and the doctor, and the rest of the corridor, is no longer there… These zombie creatures are clearly the bottom ranking enemies though, with the top of the food chain occupied by a Nemesis-like character who appears and disappears at will and seems to be controlling events. From his ravings, and the fact that his brains are showing through the top of his skull he’s obviously been zombiefied – or perhaps simply gone mad, if there is a difference in the game. We actually catch him in the midst of what looks like some very unnecessary surgery on a hapless victim.

Not the most welcoming of events but we press on regardless and after some tense exploration are greeted by the doctor’s bother. And that’s something The Evil Within certainly seems to get right, and as we cautiously approach another house a woman who’s been set ablaze suddenly runs out screaming and collapses in front of us. "It would probably be more fitting as that 'last game I direct' kind of thing.One of the key thrills of a good survival horror is never having a clear idea what’s going on and what threat might lurk around the next corner. "My thinking is that if I had a chance to make a game from the beginning to end that’s completely my vision, then definitely, that would be my big last project as a director," said Mikami in the interview. It seems like plans may have changed, though. His last hands-on directorial effort was 2014's The Evil Within, to which he previously stated that it would be his last as a director. In an interview with Variety, Mikami stated that he's open to making one last big project as a more fitting retirement for himself. READ MORE: Devil May Cry 5 - Vergil DLC Trailer | PS4, Xbox One, PC However, he has stated that he'd be willing to return to the director's seat for one last big game. Instead, he took a backseat to allow co-director Kenji Kimura time to helm the project. Recently, Mikami supervised the creative process of the upcoming Ghostwire: Tokyo (a project that previously had creative director Ikumi Nakamura attached), but he didn't serve as a director for the anticipated game. Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami is one of the most influential video game directors of all time, having worked on Capcom's legendary Resident Evil series before moving onto Platinum Games and then Tango Gameworks to make the criminally underrated The Evil Within horror series.
