One of the few things that's ever tempted me to get a VR headset is the idea of having an old favorite transformed by the tech—projects like the VR versions of the O.G. Resident Evil 4 or its recent remake. I still don't have a headset, but modder elsuperaguas' (as reported by ) looks to offer a similarly immersive transformation with no VR required.
This video by YouTube channel gives you a good impression of how it works in action. The mod shifts the camera to the first person, but otherwise leaves Leon's body model and animations intact, leading to a slower-paced sort of FPS with a real grounding in the world—pretty similar to RE7 and Village's gameplay, all things [[link]] considered. I could see the reduced situational awareness making the game much more stressful and difficult, but isn't that part [[link]] of the fun?
Elsuperaguas' project has a number of dependent mods—amusingly, you have to make Leon's head invisible in order to [[link]] make room for the new first person camera. Still, it surprises me how few tweaks it takes to turn RE4 into a functional FPS. Just a few years ago, Capcom itself went in the opposite direction with its addition of a third person camera to the originally first person Resident Evil Village.
You can get elsuperaguas' first person retrofit, as well as its dependent mods, over on the .
