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Resident Evil 4
Canonized the over-the-shoulder camera and rebuilt survival horror as an action grammar.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Resident Evil 4 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
Directly influenced
The Resident Evil series in this dataset
2005
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