While the horror game Alone in the Dark served as an inspiration, Mikami wanted Resident Evil to be in first-person, as he explains in his interview with Archipel celebrating his 30th Anniversary in the video game industry.
Shinji Mikami, the Japanese video game developer who directed the original Resident Evil and widely considered the father of the survival horror genre, has revealed in a recent interview that he originally envisioned making the game a first person horror adventure - and admitted he wasn’t a big fan of the tank controls and fixed camera angles that became a staple with the original games in the series.
