WILLIAM G-4

 At the begining of the century, the shadow of McFarlane Toys was titanic and guided completelly the collecting world (qithe the oposite of wath it is now) and at that very shadow, many brands were born following theyr footsteps: Sideshow, NECA, Sota, ReSaurus, Mezco and Plisades Marketing. Very few survived but Plisades managed to evolve at giant steps and almost reach McFarlane perfection in a record time. Specially with the Resident Evil series 3 of action figures.

Chris and Wesker from CODE: Veronica looked nice but nothing compared with the amazing Tyrant or the last of the figures of that series: the final boss of Resident Evil 2, William G-4. Just like Tyrant that felt heavy and giant on his blister, William even had metalic chaps holding the blister to the card soo they wont tear apart under his weigth, this figure is trully a heavy weigth!!!

Since he is in four legs, he has no issue standing at all soo theres no need for base (and they didnt included one to begin with). William is articulated on the shoulders, wrists, chest and legs as well as in the shoulders of his secondary arms, elbows and wrists. Dosnt sounds like much but all articulations in here are ball joints except for his legs. 

The ball joint on his chest have an awfull lot of mobility while the one on his big big wrists helps a lot to adjust his standing. The small secondari arms on his heads helps only to add some dinamisy to the pose since, as much as he is articulatd, he is not going to be posed any other way aside of on all four legs. 

The sculpt is amazing....the dry and full of stretch lines on his skin is really nice as all the big veins coming out from his msucular system and mixing with his eyes. The skin broking out and revealing the super enhanced muscular systsme underneath as well as all the textures on his chest area and open wounds is something hard to describe. 

The shark like head and all the pointy fangs on his giant mouth as well as the fleshy texture of the inside mouth is something we never seen back then. This sculpt went beyond all boundaries toys had back then and give us a figure that is terrific looking even by 2023 standars.

The color is almost perfect as well, with the brown skin navigated by dark shadows that enhance the texture and all the blood and gore looking perfectly defined and natural: pink raw muscles with purple veins and red eye lids, vibrant yellow eyes with orange giant claws on every hand. The top of the head where the boney head is coming out from the body (the neck??) have a beautofull purple color while dark paint runs trough all the crevices on the skul structure.

The fleshy inside of the mouth mixi red, pink and some soft purples giving it the feel of very realistic animal insides, alive and wet. Maybe the fangs needed to be more pointy and a better color deffinition, but i guess they didnt wanted someone to get harmed or cut and considering everything, this guy is a huge imporvement over the Toy Biz version.

Sure, he dosnt transform back to G-3 like the Toy Bix did, but the sculpt and painting (and articulation) is in a totally different level and even better than the Moby Dick Toys figures. Plus, even on all four this guy is taller than the rest of the human figures and by extention, taller to modern action figures as well and considering how heavy he is, this is one of the most impresive figures i ever seen.

With Tyrant, Willaim G-3, Nemesis (I am missing him) as ell as Alexia, Plisades Marketing is soo far the only brand to release all the final bosses of Resident Evil in the same scale and quality and i cant apreciate that enough, because this was the very last time Plaisades touched Resident Evil since a couple of years later it stoped existing all together.

But this is also the very last time we got figures based on the "classic" (original) Resident Evil as well since Resident Evil 4 was around the corner and with it, the whole series would change forever to never be back at this era of Virus, Umbrella, STARS and Raccon. With a good assorment of CODE: Veronica nd RE 2 figures, i really wish Plisades had more chance to focus on RE 1 and 3 but this guy as well as Tyrant were an amazing way to wrap things up.