When zombie-blasting survival game “Resident Evil” launched on the very first PlayStation console in 1996, Japanese publishers Capcom never thought the series would reach tens of millions of people or endure for three decades.

The franchise has become Capcom’s biggest, spawning a string of sequels as well as film and TV spinoffs and competing over the years with the more psychological “Silent Hill” to give horror fans goosebumps.

“I think it’s a miracle that we’ve made it this far” since the first episode, producer Masato Kumazawa told AFP through an interpreter at the vast Gamescom trade fair in Cologne, Germany, last week.

“Requiem” — the ninth “Resident Evil” game — will land on February 27, although the opening minutes were available for fright-hungry gamers in Cologne.

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