‘Resident Evil 7’ in Third-Person Is Scarier Than Any Zombie

Unlike previous Resident Evil games, when Resident Evil 7 drops later this month, it’ll launch simultaneously on PC, too. That’s important because it means modders will get to work doing weird shit, as they’ve already done with the game’s demo. Case in point, a modder managed to flip on a third-person camera for this first-person horror game—and it looks really hilarious.

Yep, the character doesn’t have a head! That’s common for first-person games, though; the head is the only part players can’t see. Here’s what protagonist Henry from Firewatch, the Campo Santo woodland adventure from last year, looks like zoomed out:

I’m both nervous and excited for Resident Evil’s first-person revival, as I wrote a few weeks back. My history with the series is long, deep, and full of ups and downs. I’m hoping for the best:

While helping a friend move a few weeks ago, someone asked me what the big games were these days. I’d grown up with this person, and they were one of many friends who spent hours after school, before it was time for dinner, watching me play whatever the new game was. “I remember watching… what was it, Resident Evil?,” he said, laughing. “That shit was scary.”

It’s been a long time since Resident Evil was actually scary. I slogged through more than 20 hours of Resident Evil 6 because I couldn’t comprehend how far off the rails this thing had gone, how Capcom managed to so desperately lose sight of why the series became popular in the first place. It wasn’t about a mansion, it wasn’t about a man named Wesker, and no one really cared about a pesky corporation named Umbrella. Resident Evil stained our collective consciousness because it was scary as hell.

Fingers crossed. But hey, at least we have this.