The fan-made Resident Evil 4 HD mode will be released on February 2, 2022. In an interview with The Verge,Albert Marin, one of the two people behind the project, described his seven-year development process (now 8 years, they started in 2014).
While Capcom has long been alleged to be working on a Resident Evil 4 Remake project, Marin said it would not affect his own projects, but would have differences in style.
Resident Evil 4 takes HD game from scratch
This fan-generated HD rendition of Resident Evil 4 is different from its counterparts. Made exclusively for the PC version of the game, this mode revisits every skin and item and character in the game with texture files made from scratch. The mode’s producer, Albert Marin, followed in Capcom’s footsteps in developing the original Resident Evil 4 during the mode’s construction process.
Marin personally travelled to areas such as Raglan Castle in Wales and Palau Guell in Barcelona, taking photographs of the sites to use as an in-game file.
“I’ve made a list of the regions based on the game’s producers. We reconscrumed most of the game’s skins from scratch by browsing texture libraries. In the process, we had to constantly check the skins in the original game to make sure they were fully compatible with lighting, color and material harmony,” said Albert Marin, who says the time they devote to the project is more than 9,000 hours and they work with more than 4,500 photoshop files.
