How Capcom Designs New Enemies in Resident Evil 4 (Remake) | Interview

This month’s cover story featured Hirofumi Nakaoka as Art Director. We spoke to him about how Capcom creates old and new enemies in Resident Evil 4 Remake. You’ll learn about scrapped redesigns for the iconic chainsaw villager, how normalcy breeds horror, and how Nakaoka and the team created a new cow-headed, hammer-wielding villager referred to as The Brute. And folks looking for new Resident Evil 4 gameplay have some new footage to dissect in this video interview. 

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