Resident Evil 3.5 Code: Madman review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, today I review what may seem like old news to RE fans. But a lot of people never knew about this fan demo recreation of a scrapped RE4 for years. This also came out a year before Resident Evil 2: Source, original mod not the more recent Garry's Mod version. By now some of you know I recently voted this into Bawkbasoup's Resident Evil Franchise Marathon.

Resident Evil 3.5 Code: Madman (2017)

If you remember RE4's E3 trailer. Yeah remember when E3 was a thing lol sorry bad joke. Originally the game would've been more of an Silent Hill game. Similar to what happened with Resident Evil 1.5. Capcom chosen to scrapped the game forcing the team starting over. In both cases lead to finical successes.

Unlike Resident Evil 1.5, the game eventually became the original Devil May Cry. Which maintains a lot what was represented in RE4's E3 trailer. An YouTuber named ShiguWorks recreated this scrapped RE4 in a fan demo. I played a lot of demos, I won't rank these among them since this is a fan creation. I will say it's surprisingly decent for what it is.

The controls with an controller sorta felt like an GameCube controller. After all Resident Evil 4 was originally an GameCube game. You mostly have two enemies in the entire demo. You got this zombie early on you have to eliminate. The other enemy is invisible but you can see em through a mirror. There's a few endings as well.

I mostly gotten the main ending, better than try again ending. I couldn't figure out how to get the famous Hooked Man ending. Although there's a few differences between the two best endings. Yes they pulled stuff from RE4 and RE5 to help recreate this. I felt those were used effectively well in this demo. It's a short demo but I enjoyed it more than expected.

This actually felt like an horror game more than the actual RE4 games. I can't stop comparing it to Silent Hill series. Especially some of the earlier entries mostly Silent Hill 3. Not a rip off but it's still notably similar in a few ways. Resident Evil 3.5 Code: Madman has another unexpected surprise on the main menu itself.

You actually can move the camera which was strangely interesting. Obviously you play as Leon as you explore around this haunted location. You mostly have an handgun with an knife that's it. Now I also loved at times the overall colorization turns blue. Not only that, this has more going on than actual RE demos more recently.

This was a rather curious concept since they never made a demo of the scrapped RE4. This is technically the closest we ever gotten to. Capcom doesn't like fans doing stuff like this. It's still not clear if there were plans making an full what if game or just the demo was planned. What we do know is they does truly nailed the experience you get rewatching that E3 trailer.

I am glad I voted it into Bawkbasoup's Resident Evil Franchise Marathon. I always been an huge Leon fan ever since classic RE2. This demo was quite impressive to say the least. The visuals alone is enough reason to give this a try, you have to download it online. End of the day, it's a piece of Re history a lot of people forgotten about.

Resident Evil 3.5 Code: Madman is a great demo. Despite a lot of stuff you do being very unlike RE at all. You never get turned off by it either. The controls works near perfect with some tank control aspects to em. Personally I wish the demo itself could've been a little longer. It sorta reminded me of Lost of Nightmares from RE5 but acting more like RE4's answer to that.