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Published: 2022-06-20 02:42:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 694; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 4
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Image originally posted 10 March 2014.  Posted for project historical purposes.


This was a really bad hack job by me at the time, and it's rather embarrassing now looking back on it, but we had to start somewhere.  You also have to remember that there was NO available 3D character model of Chief Irons for the longest time back then.  Our project model was the first, believe it or not and as bad as it was, although it was of his early RE1.5 incarnation.  KitMartin would later do a better recreation of his original RE2 form that everybody used until someone ripped his revamped RE2 REmake model.  As for me, I completely deleted Irons from the storyline for continuity reasons (he can't be at both stations at the same time, that's physically impossible) and replaced him with a character of my own creation, Station Chief Robert Clemons, who eventually took over the part Irons had filled in the story for my RE Exodus novel.


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Early concept image for a fully immersive fan remake of RE1.5 on a modern 3D game engine.  I used the models of the old RE1.5 REvisited project and posed them in XNALara XPS, because that was all I could do at the time.  Several fans have since taken up the challenge, at least one on Capcom's own Unity engine and another using the Unreal engine.  While nobody's released a playable demo yet, you can see sample videos of their various efforts posted on YouTube.


It has long been a dream of mine to see RE1.5 get remade this way, and with an updated plot that would have brought it (mostly) in line with the rest of the RE franchise as it stood back then.  That's why I wrote the novel Resident Evil: Exodus - The Tale of Elza Walker and both sponsored and financed the RE1.5 REvisited project, so capable fans would have most of the resources they needed (along with an updated story and plot) for a RE1.5 REmake, if you will.  Capcom has made it clear that they're never going to do this themselves, and they have since effectively rebooted the RE franchise with both RE2 REmake and RE3 REmake.  All the same, I'd still like to see it happen, and I'd gladly support any fans with the talent who are serious about undertaking such a challenge.  That's why I'm reposting all of my old RE1.5 REvisited and RE Exodus imagery:  to re-fire everyone's imaginations.  Maybe ... someday ... *sigh*

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