Capcom got on the survival horror bandwagon in a masterful way back in 1996 with the magnificent first installment of Resident Evil and did so by allowing us to control the legendary couple of the STARS made up of Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine. Both offered similar adventures, but with enough differences to enhance replayability through the Spencer mansion.
However, the Japanese company had planned to include a third playable character that was finally discarded. That’s what we can know thanks to discarded material of the video game, which named the protagonists as Jill Morrison and Beamer Marcurio. The third in the running was going to be Edward Dewey, a tall, thin man who would fulfill the role of comic relief among the living dead.
He was mentioned in the English instruction manual, although he did not appear until Resident Evil 0. The title that shows us the initial origin of the saga rescued Dewey for the occasion, in this case as Bravo Team co-pilot of the STARS that was initially sent to the Arklay Mountains. At one point, he is attacked by a group of Cerberians and suffers injuries that end up transforming him into a zombie that Rebecca Chambers encounters.
As if that were not enough, Barry Burton was not Capcom’s initial choice for Resident Evil, since Heinrich Gelzer was the first choice. We are talking about a specialist in heavy weapons, with gigantic muscles and who attracted attention for being a cyborg. The incorporation of cybernetic elements in your body lies in the multiple wounds he suffered in the war and he even had an AI named Laura who provided him with data about his systems.
Finally, the developer wanted to move away from such a futuristic science fiction theme, so Gelzer was discarded and replaced by the charismatic owner of the brutal Samurai Edge.
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