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You Want Him Killed Off? Wha-!?

So I was reading up on Kotaku.com today about Resident Evil 5 characters amongst other things. The news was that a new character (big-boobed Excella Gionne) has been confirmed alongside old character, Albert Wesker. Cue tons of comments (by tons I mean 2) pouring in about how “Capcom are incapable of killing characters off, blah blah, blah, RE is shit, I like cheese” etc.

My response was a simple one - a Resident Evil without Wesker would be like Sonic without Eggman or Mario without Bowser. Heck, even Zelda without Ganon. Heck it would just be plain wrong.

Anyway the simple fact is, Resident Evil needs Wesker and here is why:

• Bad ass: Look at him. This is a dude that looks like he would and will kick your ass. From the menacing shades, the slick backed blonde hair and the bulging biceps Wesker is obviously not short on the physical side. Nor is he short on the mental side either, regularly outwitting his S.T.A.R.S counterparts while he pumps some more iron. Wesker may be a stereotypical bad guy (see Malfoy) but who really cares?
• The voice: To be honest I don’t fully understand the Resident Evil story like a full on geek but here’s this dude who has some hand in the creation of the T-virus, or wants it, or whatever. Then you listen to his voice and you realise he is a sound-a-like for Kenneth Williams. When you throw all the zombie stuff out of the window he’d still scare me with that voice.
• The fact that most of the time you see him he’s dead: Nothing scares me more than dudes that are dead but function like dudes that aren’t dead. Gee-whiz. And there are more games that you see a “dead” Wesker than games where you see an “alive” Wesker.

Seriously though Albert Wesker is one of my favourite characters in the Resident Evil series (Jill, Leon and the Merchant being my other favourites). Why would anyone want to see him killed off? Seriously. He has so much story to tell. I’m waiting for a game where we get to properly control him. I loved Umbrella Chronicles but I want a full third person-shooter based on Weskers life during Resident Evil 0, 1, 2 and 3. That way we’d totally get to revisit the mansion too.

In HD? Hell yeah.

“No. Don’t go!”