A fistful of tokens: Zombies still alive and well in Resident Evil

Zombies seem to be a bit passé these days, don’t they?

Sure, AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is going strong in its final season, but the mindless, reanimated corpses seemingly everywhere in the mid to late 2000s gave way to the sparkly vampires and teen werewolves of the early 2010s, which itself has given way to the current infatuation with comic book superheroes. Even Capcom’s Resident Evil, which has often involved its characters surviving a zombie outbreak, has shied away from using zombies in favor of other supernatural horrors. The most recent game, Resident Evil Village, featured the 9’6” vam...