Because the zombie virus only affects humans

>>736493439
because humans are....the real monsters...

>>736493439
More modeling and animation work than its worth for a single or maybe a few encounters.

>>736493439
99.9% of the zombies in Resident Evil 5 were animals.

>>736493439
in movies it's effects and animal talent related and in vidya it's kinda the same thing
more art/modelling work, more rigging, more scripting
animal AI, believable animal AI, isn't as easy to make as believable zombie human AI either

there's not really a strong consensus on how zombie animals should act either so it forces a lot of design choices right out the gate
>>736494236
the resident series could refine the animal zombies into being used in just the encounters with them
if you put some cerberi in a big empty map they would probably run around in circles like headless chicken and do some idle animations, but in a tight hall, coming through the windows? There's only one place to go, and that's Jill's throat
it's probably the one thing that capcom got way better at doing as the games progressed tbf

>>736493439
They're behave the same as regular animals, no?

>>736494236
Outbreak File 2 had a zoo of T-virus infected Animals.

>>736496458
well yeah but the zombie elephant was just a normal elephant that was angry though wasn't it?

>>736493439
>Rare
Resident Evil 1 had dogs, spiders, sharks, and Yawn even plant 41
Resident Evil 2 had the moths
4 had the Lago monster fish
5 had that bug thing
0 had monkeys the centipede the bat and the leeches
Rev had the weird fish mutations