Have any of the people involved with Resident Evil ever commented on HAMLET or its remakes? It originally came out on the PC-98 in 1993, then had a Playstation remake in early 1995, and another remake on Dreamcast in 1999. It's a funky first person mecha horror FPS game. The broad strokes of the story are also very similar to RE.
>A shady corporation was doing illegal experiments in an isolated lab. On the Moon instead of in the boonies.
>The virus they were working with got out and now all the personnel are zombies out to kill you.
>As if that wasn't bad enough, the bio monsters they were breeding escaped and are on the loose in the facility.
>The head researcher also mutated into a Birkin-esque creature that constantly mutates into stronger forms throughout the game in order to get revenge on the corp. He retained most of his intelligence though.
>Your special forces team is sent into the situation blind to find out why contact was lost with the facility and gets picked off by the monsters one by one.
>in a shocking twist, one of your team members is revealed to be a traitor tasked with killing any survivors and covering up all evidence of the outbreak.
>The whole thing unfolds in a very cinematic way with lots of codec calls and cutscenes.
When they talk about envisioning RE as a first person horror game, this is what always comes to mind for me.