WILLIAM G-3 & WILLIAM G-4

For a kid in the 90s there was only one thing more exciting than playing Resident Evil: Play Resident Evil and once done, hop to keep playong it but with the action figures and thanks to ToyBiz we had the chance to do that. Part of the "Videogames Super Star" line, the Resident Evil 2 line was actually smaller than the original game line, with only 3 packs to get since ToyBiz skiped the smaller monsters and just after Leon and Claire, they went dirrectly to the final bosses of the game! William G-3 and G-4!!

To start, this guy is HUGE!!! He is much bigger than Tyrant from the first serires and really really heavy!! Seen him all by himself in the blister was very awesome but once out of the blister he was extremelly intimidating!!! He is as tall as a modern Play Arts Kai tough sadly, given to how huge and heavy he is and how articulated, he cant stand at all....he keeps falling over and over again soo i had to use Ryu´s base for this pictures.

He is articulated on the shoulders, legs, knes, ankles and half feet and his back arms are also articulated on the union with the back, elbows and wrists. All are cut joints soo despite being soo articulated he dosnt have too much posing options and thats a big shame. His back arms and theyr knes are ball jointed tough soo that gives them a lot of movement freedom but also makes them prone to falling at the sides given how heavy those arms are.

Despite his weak articulations the sculpt is really cool, with all the musuculature and veins on his arms as well as giant eyes erupting from different areas. His lean and slim complexion makes him imposing as well and it was soo amazing to have such a closer look at him in this toy, since in the game he was...well, way too pixelated and always triying to kill you.

His head is soo puzzling...is pure bone and looks kinda like a fish but human as well (specially with those big teeth), there is some grey shadows here and there and red bulguing eyes with crimson lips, the paint is simple but really good. Same for his body, brown body with dark shades to higthligth his muscles but my favorite parts are those eyes coming out from his legs...they are soo vibrant red, full of dark veins and the eyes coming out from the arms on his back are pretty awesome too.

But where is Willaims G-4?? And waths his actual action feature??? Well, the feature is actually mutates from G-3 to G-4 in pure Transformers fashion: move his arms up and bent his legs, push his back arms down and a spring will push out his head, making room for his G-4 head!! This transformation is really simple but it works soo good it was the coolest thing ever back in 1998!!!

The G-4 head have the same level of sculpt and paint tough the greys on his head is darker and the while section is cast in soft plastic. In his G-4 form he is still as massive as his G-3 form but in a horizontal way, tough given to the weigth of the open mouth, his back arms use to open up soo he is mostly standing on his mouth but thats hard to notice.

Overall, he is masive compared to Leon and Claire and plays the final boss role way too good!! Back then this figure was trully impresive, despite his weakness, we Resident Evil fans could not ask for more. Also this is, in 2023, pretty much the only time we got a Willaim G-3 figure and that makes this guy even much more special.