Resident Evil Requiem's director admits they needed to raise the bar for their zombies to 'keep having that thrilling experience'

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The biggest draw in Resident Evil 9 was undoubtedly Leon Kennedy, but if I'm honest the zombies came in a close second. With yet another mutated strain of the T-virus, these infected are freaky in a whole new way, with many retaining their original memories and habits.

"It's creepier to see that they're slightly more human in the sense that they're repeating certain actions," director Koshi Nakanishi says during an interview with Eurogamer. "It almost looks like you could go up to them and talk to them and ask them what's happening. But of course, they wouldn't be able to reply. And that unsettlingness of them being almost human, but not quite, is something we wanted to use as the core of making them scary this time around."