Resident Evil rejects any attempt at taxonomy. There are RE games that are strictly about desperately surviving nightmarish horrors, and there are others where you vanquish the nightmares with brute force yourself. Unlike Silent Hill, where the scary stuff largely comes from the trauma within, Resident Evil imagines that the bogeyman is out there. It's the nefarious pharmaceutical corporation, or the unhinged private military company. Eugenics-obsessed scientists ready to lose their own humanity for monstrous ambitions.
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