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Having existed for three whole decades, the Resident Evil series naturally has a number of casualties – games that were halted and culled mid-way through development. Some of those lost games have been recovered by an army of faithful fans, such as the infamous “Resident Evil 1.5” and a Game Boy Color port of the classic 1996 original. But some lost Resident Evil games are purely ethereal – no build to recover, no demo to play, no grainy trailers captured on a MiniDV camcorder in Kentia Hall. Just rumors of what could have been. A ghost, like RE2 director Hideki Kamiya’s original vision for Resident Evil 3.
Codenamed “Ship Bio,” the sequel starred HUNK, the gas-masked Umbrella mercenary from Resident Evil 2’s brutal bonus scenario The 4th Survivor, sent to recover the G-Virus from a cruise ship overrun with human-plant hybrids. When Sony announced the PlayStation 2 in 1998, though, Capcom grew nervous about releasing a major title on dying hardware and pulled the plug.
Instead, an internal side project called Resident Evil: Gaiden was hastily promoted to mainline status and became Resident Evil 3: Nemesis – not to be confused with the 2001’s Resident Evil: Gaiden for the Game
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