In the 90s—a decade without our own era's gush of zombie TV shows, comics and films—the Resident Evil series was one of the few torchbearers for the zombie narrative tradition, largely invented in ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Between hulking bioweapon super-soldiers and mutated wildlife, your run-of-the-mill zombie in Resident Evil games is mostly regarded as cannon fodder.

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