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I swear I don't understand this "obsession" that many people have for zombies, I agree with the rapier17 comment, virus-style zombies Resident Evil is not for the universe of The Division, which I read in the description of the next event of The Division, (Reanimate ) is as follows: enemies have created a TECHNOLOGICAL apparatus that manages to revive the dead (theory: I think that the "fresh" dead, who died shortly and have their whole body), that is, NOTHING of viruses, would be a connected apparatus to the brain of the "zombie", maybe this technology is already working in Hunters, who would be intelligent zombies thanks to the technological apparatus that increases their physical capacities with their AI working and triggering only parts that matter (aggressiveness, survival, etc.) of the dead brain , that is, a totally different concept from the drunken zombies of RE, who are rotten walking meat that want to bite you or spit acid or anything disgusting or crude.
This idea of the technological apparatus, if well worked, is acceptable, it is within the universe of The Division.
Hardly this "mixing universes" thing works, the example the RE series itself gives us, whoever is a fan of the series knows about the success that the games were RE1, RE2, R3 and RECV ... until RE4 arrived, most say it is the best, BUT many others were not satisfied, I like RE4 myself, but for me it is not an RE, now let's think about RE5 and RE6 which is considered the worst RE, which was the main developer error?
In wanting to change a survival horror style game to action, this is what happened from RE4 onwards, RE left his origins aside and the franchise almost ended, in RE4 we see "zombies" (called los ganados) using weapons, chasing, running and even dodging, in RE5 we have all this and "zombies" using motorbikes (???) and in RE6 ... which has nothing to do with RE, it looks more like The Division (in the worst sense, of course) than an RE .
In other words, the RE series declined when it tried to leave its origin and enter the universe of The Division (RE5, RE6 and RE3RE), after all who wants to play RE, wants to play RE, who wants to play TD, wants to play TD and who wants to play Diablo, wants to play Diablo, that is, different universes.
Things only got better when they realized that the RE style of play is survival horror, the worst RE (both normal and spin-off) are the ones that let the action stand out over survival (survival horror), RE7 and RE2RE are there to prove my point of view, only at RE3RE they have already started to falter again with the "frantic action" that suits The Division more than it does with RE.
I hope that if something like TD is done, that it will be something well worked out, well explained, after all it is not because TD2 is moving towards the end of its life, that it has to go out and do something, after all there is still the HISTORY item, which it must be a hook for the next game.
Just as I can't see zombies or demons and angels in The Division, I can't see aliens or cyborgs in RE or Diablo, that is, even though it is fiction, there is a limit that cannot be crossed ...
... you can, but it cannot be part of the main story, there has to be something apart as they commented on the event being in a place like the Dark Zone, but without history, totally outside the universe of the game.
To summarize my point of view: the idea of the event description is acceptable if worked well and down to earth, in the universe of The Division, but the idea of "magical super-virus" that turns people into irrational zombies who only think in feeding on living things (Resident Evil universe), NO.