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Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Movie Gets Viral Fan-Made PS1 Style Video Game

You will soon be able to play as Austin Abrams in this fan-made, retro-style video game adapting Zach Cregger’s take on the Resident Evil universe, complete with fixed camera angles and all.

An indie game developer who goes by the name “chicanogoth” on Instagram is going viral after sharing their progress for their video game adaptation… of a movie adaptation… of a game. It’s a Matryoshka doll-style line of thinking that the developer referenced in their viral video, jokingly calling it Resident Evil: The Movie: The Game.

Warning: Light spoilers for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie to follow.

Their footage shows the player character, Bryan Hodukavich, running from an infected Doberman Pinscher in a fairly close recreation of a scene from the film. The dev even included a crashed police cruiser, whose blue and red lights flash on the white snow underfoot as Abrams’ video game counterpart flees from the dog.

What’s endearing players to this project is how it …

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