Resident Evil 3: Nemesis had a difficult development for a few reasons. They were working on a spin off taking place in Raccoon City. They forgot they signed a deal promising Sony about three main RE games on PlayStation 1. This led to the game they were working on to be transformed into the game we know today.
This also led to delaying Resident Evil Code: Veronica for a little while. I believe it was during this period, Sega helped Capcom with programming on their Sega Dreamcast. Resident Evil 3 was ambitious for it's time. The first two Resident Evil games took place in a building connected to several places.
Resident Evil 3 was more let's explore Raccoon City. A concept that hit home with many RE fans. Some concepts like Nemesis stalking you originated in Scenario B of Resident Evil 2. But they improved on it but giving him weapons as well as a smarter AI. This help give us the feeling of actually being stalked in a game.
There was one campaign filled with split decisions that greatly affect the story. This was done due to having more replay value to help make up for not having multiple campaigns to play. Sure they became even more of an action game but it didn't move far away from being survival horror. If anything it still nails that incredibly well.
This also had one of my favorite monster rosters of the entire series. Believe it or not, I'm a huge fan of Hunter Gammas. They're frog creatures that swim in water, run fast & can swallow a person whole. Some of the absolute most challenging puzzles in history of the genre is found here. This was the first RE game to have a lot of costumes.
The fact they nailed exploring a city filled with monsters so well. It possibly led to several spin off games like Outbreak series as well as Operation Raccoon City. Resident Evil 3 brings really pushes gamers hard for those crazy enough to attempt 100% the game. We are talking several playthrough more than the first two games in their entirely combined.
To clarify I am only talking about the campaigns as well as The 4th Survivor. Speaking of mini games, The Mercenaries Operation: Mad Jackal also led to several mini games as well as two games. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is the closest thing we have for a RE3 Remake. Personally I felt we deserve a true RE3 Remake.
Although the creator of Resident Evil, Shinji Mikami was against called this Resident Evil 3. He still likes the game very much. I do see his point about Code: Veronica being more deserving of RE3. At the same time it didn't change things that much. Both of them followed sometime after each other to positive reviews.
Why I do believe Resident Evil 3 Remake will be a huge success? If you think about it, the upcoming The Ghost Survivors dlc will be it's precursor in many ways. We get to explore Raccoon City on a bigger scale. Some of the scariest monsters in the entire franchise could possibly be scarier. Considering how well Mr. X was updated, Nemesis is going to be a lot more fun.
We could get more modes of play to help with it's replay value. I really would like for them to keep split decisions in the game. This by itself could spice up the game. If they could do some of the stuff RE2 Remake got as dlcs, I would die happy. For example, having the original soundtrack with sound effects would be amazing.
Resident Evil 3 will likely be more horror focus than action like it was in vice versa in it's game play. I strongly felt this will work out perfectly in it's favor. They could have Barry more involved in this version too. I am curious how much Brad's death will be changed. The map system they have right now would work even better than the one it originally had.
Not only that, it is likely going to have more than enough development time to be more of a complete experience. Not that I consider RE3 for being an incomplete game to begin with. I said it since the original development was shorter than they expected. Which was also included in their three game deal.
Interesting unrelated fact, They did sign a few years later a similar deal with Nintendo. They ported RE2, RE3 and Code: Veronica X on Nintendo GameCube. They also had to make three new RE games. By now you should already know the three games by heart. Thankfully they didn't get rushed by Nintendo.
This game was very out there for it's time. There still isn't a lot of horror games similar to RE3. Some of the new moves helps especially against hunters later on. This was originally built on RE2's engine. Proof of this was through Game Shark allowing you to play as RE2 characters including Tofu. I feel like they will make a newer RE Engine just for this game.
The fact there's two mutated insects as well as hunter models that hunts you during the game. Sadly there was only two boss monsters unlike most RE games having a variety. You could face Nemesis so often or when you were forced to. Each major Nemesis boss fight is very different from each other. Grave Digger is one of the first examples of worms in the franchise.
It is a giant mutated worm that does have offsprings. You take it on twice with both boss fights being done differently. I felt they could add so much stuff into this game it's not even funny. We could see more of what Nicholai was doing back the scenes. We could see a more disgusting, disturbing final Nemesis transformation.
It is likely a handful of enemies could be removed. I felt Resident Evil 2 Remake removed the unneeded enemies out of the game. Although RE1 Remake kept all of them while adding Crimson Heads. We already got two amazing remakes that people will remember for a long time. In a way they became the new definitive experience of those classics.
I really wouldn't be surprised if RE3 Remake follows the same direction. This game has so much for them to work with. Simply because it isn't packing as much content as RE2 allowing them more free range in what they could do. I am very sure this Raccoon City will be amazing to look at. This game should be challenging especially those who mastered the original game.
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