A visitor walks past a placard of Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem video game during Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. — AFP
COLOGNE, Germany: When zombie-blasting survival game Resident Evil launched on the very first PlayStation console in 1996, Japanese publishers Capcom never thought the series would reach tens of millions of people or endure for three decades.
The franchise has become Capcom's biggest, spawning a string of sequels as well as film and TV spinoffs and competing over the years with the more psychological Silent Hill to give horror fans goosebumps.
