Resident Evil creator Mikami won't play RE5
by Griffin McElroy 
on Nov 30th 2008 12:00PM
We usually don't think twice about trusting the judgment of game designer Shinji Mikami -- after all, he did create the
Resident Evil series, and executive produced a few Capcom classics, such as
Viewtiful Joe and
Devil May Cry. However, we did a double-take when we saw a recent blurb from Mikami
during an interview with Official PlayStation magazine; a blurb in which he reveals that, unlike many gamers, he "probably won't play" the next installment in his brainchild franchise,
Resident Evil 5.
Mikami, who's been working under the Platinum Games label since the
Great Clover Cleaving of 2006, said he knows he wouldn't enjoy the Africa-centric thriller, explaining that, "it's not going to be the game I would have made." He went on to issue a threat to his former employers, stating, "if I see anything in
Resident Evil 5 that isn't done well, I'll be angry!" We'd hate to see what the man behind
some of the goriest games we've ever played does when he gets his dander up.
