Resident Evil 4 Development 2

^[26] As Kamiya felt the playable character did not look brave and heroic enough in battles from a fixed angle, he decided to drop the prerendered backgrounds from previous installments and instead opted for a dynamic camera system.^[25] This new direction required the team to make a trip to Europe, where they spent 11 days in the United Kingdom and Spain, photographing things like Gothic statues, bricks, and stone pavements for use in textures.^[30][31] Though the developers tried to make the "coolness" theme fit into the world of Resident Evil,^[32] Mikami felt it strayed too far from the series' survival horror roots and gradually convinced all of the staff members to make the game independent from it