The Canceled Resident Evil Games You Never Got to Play
Published on 2026-03-21
In celebration of Resident Evils 30th anniversary, were looking back on the survival horror games that never escaped Capcoms walls. The stories of a culled sequel, a struggling Game Boy port, the prequel designed for a failed Nintendo 64 peripheral, and the many, many canceled versions of Resident Evil 4. Resident Evil has often punched above its weight, but ambitious attempts to put the survival horror series on Nintendo's Game Boy and N64DD led to two famously canceled projects. Meanwhile, on the PS1, before Capcom finally created Leon and Claire's nightmare in the RPD, Resident Evil 2 was a very different game. We take a look at Hideki Kamiya's canceled Resident Evil "1.5" prototype. #ign #residentevil