The initial proposal was for the player to explore a large city environment that would be scarred by the outbreak with burning buildings and distant screams.
Rather than be in the style of Resident Evil 2, he wanted the game to be more "indie" and play in its own manner different from the other titles in the series. Mikami had a number of ideas he wanted for the project to be based around. With a number of artists having left Capcom due to negative experiences making Resident Evil 2, Aoyama and Kamiya's projects relied heavily on newly recruited talent, a problem that also affected Jun Takeuchi's Onimusha. Kazuhiro Aoyama was hired on as director, having also worked on the previous game. With Resident Evil 2 writer Noboru Sugimura busy with other games, the story-writing was handled in-house. Work on this game officially began in October 1998, with Shinji Mikami as producer of a smaller-budget PlayStation title, which had the working titles of both "BIOHAZARD GAIDEN" and "BIOHAZARD 1.9/2.1". ĭuring development of Resident Evil 2's DualShock Ver., there was a degree of interest in a future game that would serve as standalone expansion on the game to add another storyline. Spencer's G-Virus infected son exploring the family castle and Umbrella HQ. Kamiya became the director, and the storyline of HUNK on a cruise ship was replaced with Oswell E. However, when Sony announced their new PlayStation 2 in the Summer, the game was scrapped and the dev team - Team Little Devil - obtained a PlayStation 2 SDK to start anew some months later.
A third game, "BIOHAZARD 3", was being produced by Hideki Kamiya for the PlayStation, intended to be Capcom's next big game. By Summer 1998, Capcom was working on Resident Evil 0 for the Nintendo 64 and with Nextech in Resident Evil CODE:Veronica for the Dreamcast. With Resident Evil 2 a success, Capcom was quick to take advantage and began development of a number of new titles by the end of the year.
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