Resi 5 team "having quite a lot of arguments"

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The producer of Capcom's Resident Evil 5 has revealed the 'internal conflicts' warring between team members, and how tumultuous development been over the last year.

Speaking in an interview with Xbox World 360, Resi 5 man Masachika Kawata described development on the game as "like wartime", but he says the developers are still working together.

"The team has been having quite a lot of arguments, but at the end of the day the team is working towards one goal - to make a great game," he said.

"[Director Takeuchi] is very hard working and he makes the team work very hard as well. He gets into big arguments with everyone; Resident Evil 5's development is like wartime, but he's got incredible leadership.

"A designer comes up with sketches but they don't always work on the screen; we have to modify it, make changes and we go through this process all the time. The artists and programmers are doing their best, so when their work is rejected by the director it can be quite heartbreaking."

Kawata also revealed that the team "do feel" Resi creator Shinji Mikami's absence, "but he's left and such is life," he said.

"We have a lot of people among our team who worked on Resident Evil 4 with Mr. Mikami, and Mr. Takeuchi worked on Resident Evil (GameCube remake) and he's a truly incredibly individual as well.

"We're under a lot of pressure to live up to expectations, but we've done what we wanted to do."

Read the full 4-page interview with Masachika on Resident Evil 5 in Xbox World 360 #71, on sale today.

Andy Robinson