

According to an interview with 1UP.com, Hideki Kamiya claims that, initially, this was to be the third RE game instead of the one that came out. Development on the first iteration of the game overlapped with that of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (back when that game was still considered to be Resident Evil 1.9), predating Shinji Mikami's decision to switch to the Nintendo GameCube.What Could Have Been: Before the developers settled on what would become RE4, they went through several prototype versions of the game, which are collectively known as Resident Evil 3.5:.Talking to Himself: Paul Mercier provides the voice of both Leon and the Merchant, so he's not only talking but also buying and selling things to himself.Sequel Gap: The game was released 6 years after Resident Evil 3.It has seen releases across four generations of video game hardware and the only major platforms that never got a version of the game in its lifetime were the Xbox (which is probably due to Microsoft all but abandoning the system in 2005 in anticipation of the then-coming 360) and Wii U (which still ended up getting the Wii Edition ported to its version of the eShop, though the game still had to be played in Wii Mode).
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Port Overdosed: Despite its "Only for GameCube" label in its original release from 2005, the game has been ported to PlayStation 2 (months later after the GameCube version), the Nokia NGage (2005), PC (2007, a Porting Disaster), Wii (2007), Zeebo (2009), Apple iOS (2009), PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (2011), Android (2013), PC again (2014, a Polished Port), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (2016), Nintendo Switch (2019), Quest 2 (2021), and remade for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, a total of 17 ports and counting.No Export for You: The NGage port was released only in Japan, the Zeebo port was released only in Brasil (as the console itself was only released there, despite being developed in America), and the Android version was released only in Korea outside of very few Samsung phones through its own store at the time of release.Name's the Same: Ramon Salazar, the psychopathic terrorist dabbling in bioweapons, is even crazier than Ramon Salazar, the psychopathic terrorist dabbling in bioweapons in 24.Follow the Leader: This game was hugely influential on a number of other games that followed it, including Dead Space, Gears of War, darkSector, and many others.note From fighting zombies, to mist enemies, to the puppet humans in the final version. The premise was changed several times in this timeframe. Development Hell: Counting the early proposal that became Devil May Cry, Resident Evil 4 was in development for at least half a decade.Defictionalization: One company produces handmade replicas of both Leon's and Krauser's knives.It's also brutally trimmed down in terms of violence, to the point German gamers took to importing copies from Austria instead. Bad Export for You: Due to Germany's youth protection laws, the German version of the game is missing the "Assignment Ada" and "The Mercenaries" minigames.
