Compiled by members of the RE board.
Welcome.
This thread is for all those who are new to the Resident Evil series, providing information about all the games. Hopefully, this will also reduce the amount of question threads in the future.
Thanks.
General information
Publisher: [link=http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025017.html]Capcom[/link]
Developer: [link=http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025017.html]Capcom[/link]
Genre: Third-Person Action Adventure (Survival-Horror)
Websites:
*[link=http://ww2.capcom.com/ResidentEvil/]Official Resident Evil website[/link]
*[link=http://www.capcom-europe.com/residentevil/]Official European website[/link]
*[link=http://www.residentevilfan.com/]Fansite (Resident Evil Fan)[/link]
*[link=http://residentevil.emugaming.com/]Fansite (Evil Extreme)[/link]
Note about the platforms: Don't pay too much heed to the platforms I mention below, for practically every Resident Evil have has been ported over and over to various consoles. I'll try to be as clear about that as possible, but my knowledge is limited, so my apologies for the slight lack of information concerning that. Do tell me if I made a mistake, and I shall correct it, or have it corrected by a Moderator.
Resident Evil
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The first Resident Evil game was created for Sony Playstation in 1996. It was a pioneer for the survival-horror genre, and is known for its great graphics (back then), spooky atmosphere and lousy, yet absolutely hilarious voice-acting. This game was later remade for Nintendo Gamecube.
Reviews:
*[link=http://psx.ign.com/objects/000/000610.html]IGN review[/link]
*[link=http://gameguides.gamespot.com/ps/adventure/residentevil/index.html]Gamespot review[/link]
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Note: While keeping the fans waiting for the release of Resident Evil 2, Capcom released Resident Evil: Director's Cut. A collection of different versions, Director's Cut contains the Japanese (or easy) version, the original US version, plus the Arrange mode, with new camera angles, rearranged scenes, and more gore.
Resident Evil 2
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The famous sequel to the original game was made for Sony Playstation in 1998. Many hardcore Resident Evil fanatics still find this one to be their favorite. Many improvements have been made, compared to the first game, such as new weapons (machine gun, grenade launcher, C4 explosives) better character animation, interactive backgrounds, improved FMV sequences and slightly better character acting. The game itself takes place a few months after the ending of the first one.
Reviews:
*[link=http://psx.ign.com/objects/000/000504.html]IGN review[/link]
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
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The third Resident Evil game for Sony Playstation, released in 1999. Whether you're a new fan or an old expert, this new iteration is solid stuff, a deep, more action-reliant adventure game, complete with the creepy mutants and undead of the past, and new ones to torture your dreams. Ducks and dodges are added to the 180 spin. A new Live Choice aspect makes things interesting too. Not much to say about the graphical evolution, still pixelly, but still far better looking than its predecessors. The FMVs are a little disappointing. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is known to be one of the harder games in the series.
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*[link=http://psx.ign.com/objects/011/011482.html]IGN review[/link]
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Resident Evil Code: Veronica X
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Originally created for Dreamcast as Resident Evil Code: Veronica, in 2000, and later ported to Sony Playstation2, in 2001, and Nintendo Gamecube in 2003. This game is a lot less dark and edgy than the previous ones, but remains nevertheless fun and atmospheric. The graphics are smooth, nothing to write home about, but they're good enough and you won't be bothered by clipping mistakes or pixelly realtime characters anymore.
Reviews:
*[link=http://ps2.ign.com/objects/016/016146.html]IGN Review[/link]
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Resident Evil (GCN remake)
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The remake of the very first Resident Evil game has found its way to Nintendo Gamecube. It was released in 2002, and is far more atmospheric, scary and beautiful than any of the previous games. New enemies, surround sound, new areas and dramatically improved graphics,... Thumbs up for this one!
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*[link=http://cube.ign.com/objects/017/017045.html]IGN review[/link]
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Resident Evil Zero
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This one takes place before the first Resident Evil game and the mansion incident. It's a Gamecube exclusive, released in 2002, with unique new gameplay aspects. The Item Boxes have disappeared and you can now drop items anywhere in the game, on the floor and you can switch between the two playable characters while playing, making the strategic aspect of the game a lot more interesting. The graphics are superb, just like those of the Resident Evil remake.
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*[link=http://cube.ign.com/objects/015/015353.html]IGN review[/link]
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Resident Evil Survivor
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This game sucks. Well ok, let me start over. It is a psuedo first-person-shooter/adventure game. It's actually an awesome concept, because you walk around exploring, picking up items and reading journals that progress the story. But they did not include Light-Gun support in the American game (it was in the Japanese version,) which really hurt the game. A lot of people agree that if they had thrown that in, it would have made the game much more fun.
Besides that, there is no real purpose in playing this game then seeing a kinda cool side-story move along. The graphics are also pretty good for it's time, but still not great.
Overall, it's a decent game at best. If you have beaten everything else in your collection, but still have a craving for RE, check it out. It's like 10 bucks anyway.
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Resident Evil Dead Aim
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Join anti-Umbrella searchand pursuit team agent, Bruce MacGavin, as he encounters a new layer of Umbrella’s insidious activities. In this Resident Evil first-person action-shooter, you must search, sneak and use battle moves to regain control of a sea-jacked cruiseship lost in the Atlantic. And should you find yourself trapped amongst hordes of zombies and mutant beasts, your aim better be dead on … or you’re gone!
This is the third Survivor game that has been released. It does support the Guncon and offers a unique storyline. It's worth playing but should not be considered part of the storyline.
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Resident Evil Outbreak
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The very first attempt at Resident Evil online lands on the PS2. It was released in 2004 and pulls off a decent job. Beautiful graphics all in real-time and the collection system boosts replay value. The game contains 8 different characters to choose from each with their own special ability and unique item. The game is good teamwork fun and the scenarios can be played differently many times. IGN gave Outbreak 7.6 because of long load times, the fact that there are only 5 scenarios, some clipping issues, and all the other things in other RE games that the press don’t like. I however give it a solid 8. and highly recommend. The sequel Outbreak File #2 arrives on the PS2 in Feburary.
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[Written by daisu]
Resident Evil Outbreak File 2
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A biological disaster has turned everyone around you into flesh-eating zombies, and now you and seven other survivors must work together to escape the city. In the sequel to Resident Evil: Outbreak, you can discover the truth behind the T-virus outbreak by exploring five new locales, including a zoo, the subway, the police station, raccoon city woods, and a Umbrella lab. As in its predecessor, Resident Evil: Outbreak File #2 features an online cooperative mode for up to four players. This game for the the PlayStation 2
Outbreak file 2 improves on its predecessor, it has even better graphics, it lessen load times (averaging 4-6 seconds between transitions instead of the ludicrous 12-17 second waits of the original),has less lag, the AI been changed but still not perfect, characters start with an additional item, has a lot more replayability and more tie ins to the main series. The game allows you to play with up to 3 other teammates. Besides just 5 scenarios it gives you get a scenario that teaches you how to play which was absent from the original. As well gives you 3 elimination scenarios where you must kill all the enemies in certain time limit with limited ammo based of difficulty settings. 3 showdown scenarios, where you fight bosses back to back pushing your skills with team-play and selective inventory. File 2 offers different difficulty on all its scenarios, they change the amount of puzzles and tasks to complete a level, as well as increase of enemies or adding new stronger enemies, while changing the amount of ammo and type of weapons. Online there also different events that add a new spin on a scenario and offer special unlockables as well as deathmatch. Unlike most resident evil games, the enemies keep coming you can't kill them all the goal is to finish scenario and escape. File 2 you can transfer your file data save to and from File 1 unlocking extras that add replayability to both games. IGN gave Outbreak File 2 a 6.5 only due to 6.0 gameplay value becuase it uses the orginal resident evil camera and has no voice chat both of which can be viewed as a good thing too. Actual score should be 8.0 or so.
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Why it's not 6.5
IGN gave it a 6.0 for gameplay lowering the good score that the game should have, they complained about it having the same old control crippling camera since spoiled by resident evil 4 fresh camera approach. Outbreak file 2 is homage to the old camera system which it uses to increase tension of not knowing whats around the corner and letting slow moving zombie the ability to sneak up enough to attack. If you enjoyed the old camera system of the other resident evil games then you be quite at home with this and how well they use this system.
IGN second complaint that there is no voice chat but they do not realize the cons of voice chat in a survivor horror game. First off, you are likely playing with strangers, some who have nothing better to do but senseless chatter and obscenities that would take from the atmosphere File 2 trying to present. As well there are players who want to be able to face the challenges that the unknown present, being told what to do leaves no room to explore and discover. File 2 offers more set commands that are used instead. It creates more of a challenge as well when you trying to convince a stranger to give you a item, infact I feel its more realistic feel. If you really want voice chat with friends, you can buy a hub and use third party software called teamspeak on the computer while you play.
Yes you may be in a scenario with people who do not have an idea on what to do, it will be more trouble for you but one must realized that you were like them before. I found it was a nice challenge to add replayability by trying to usher a friend through a scenario and keep them alive. Another problem of no voice is that a learned player may just leave you on your lonesome well they go on their way, well this abandonment certain adds to the survivor horror atmosphere even though takes away from the multilayer gives you a chance to explore and meet up with them later just to save them from some trouble.
Enjoy!
Detailed summary of the main six RE games, by DarkBlood999.
- Resident Evil REmake -
Bizarre murders have been plaguing the quiet, mid-western town of Raccoon City as of late. The victims have apparently been partially eaten, so it is assumed that this is the work of cannibals that are somewhere in Raccoon Forest, where the deaths have been occurring. Also on several of the victims, they have found the teeth marks that are from a dog's mouth. The killings started in the month of May. The police finally get the S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Rescue Squad) teams investigating the situation. The Bravo team is sent in to the forest to check out the area. Their helicopter appears to have crashed, dark smoke rising from the trees, so the Alpha team goes to try and help around the evening hours of Friday, July 24th, 1998. They split up, their pilot Brad Vickers keeping the helicopter's engine running, to search the surrounding place for signs of the Bravo team members. They search the downed Bravo helicopter, and sadly see the dead body of the pilot, Kevin [no last name is ever given]. The pilot was originally Edward Dewey.
The vehicle specialist, Joseph Frost, who is equipped with a camera, sweeps the surrounding area. Low growls come from the bushes, and within seconds, he's attacked. Before his teammates have a chance to get to him, several cerberi (zombie dogs) leap out to greet him with their blood lust and hunger. They pounce onto him, taking him down and biting into his throat. By the time the others get there, it's too late, and Jill Valentine stares in shock. Chris Redfield gets her out of the way, and they run towards where the helicopter set down. But as they near the copter, Brad sees what's chasing them and takes off, leaving the rest of the team behind to fend for themselves. That's where he got his nickname of "Chickenheart" Vickers.
The S.T.A.R.S. captain, Albert Wesker, tells his team to run for the mansion that is barely visible. They do so, having virtually no other choice besides getting killed by the dangerous dogs. They rush inside, closing the doors to insure their safety, and take a breather. They have no time to grieve, however, over the loss of Joseph. They know that they must find a way out, or find Bravo team survivors. So the four of them split up (Chris, Jill, Wesker and Barry Burton) in hopes they can find something that can help them, never expecting what lay ahead. Once through the dining room, you meet the first zombie ever seen, munching on Bravo team member, Kenneth Sullivan. Obviously this is a bit of a surprising discovery, but there are plenty of others that these poor souls wander into during the duration of the mansion exploration. This Spencer/Arklay estate was supposedly closed down and abandoned 30 years ago, due to the disappearance of George Trevor, the architect of the mansion.
A little more background on the estate is that it was designed by the infamous architect George Trevor, who stayed there while drawing up the plans. Together he and Spencer created traps and puzzles, for reasons unknown at the time. It was built for Umbrella workers, and had a secret laboratory underground, as well as a lab. The Alpha team soon finds out that scientists working for that very company have been conducting experiments with deadly viruses. The one that got loose into the air in the mansion was the T-Virus, standing for Tyrant Virus. Besides Umbrella employees, this is the first time anyone has found out who was behind this. There's a sector of the corporation called White Umbrella, which specializes in creating Biohazard weapons, and that was happening here. It was kept a secret until there was a spill on Monday, May 11 of 1998, and the T-Virus contaminated the mansion, causing everyone in it to be infected and turned into zombies.
That's what the murders were caused by. Makes sense now, right? Well here's another twist they find out: their captain, Wesker, is secretly working for Umbrella. He received orders to get rid of the evidence that was left inside of the mansion, so he brought in his unsuspecting team to help with that chore. Something Umbrella never even knew, however, was that he was planning faking his death so that he'd be out of their employment, considering he had plans of his own. And he really didn't need them trying to track him down. Soon before heading into this zombie-infested mansion, Wesker had been given a virus from William Birkin, another scientist who worked for Umbrella. It’s still unknown what virus it was, but I suspect it was an early sample of the G-Virus strain. After deciding it was a shame for the T-002 experiment to go to waste, he let it loose. Tyrant. And it put him in the state of death he needed in order for the virus to kick in and bring him back to how he is currently.
The most well known experiment that Umbrella ever performed at that point (besides the ‘failure’ of the Tyrant) was on the daughter of George Trevor, Lisa. Before her, they had tested on the wife of George and mother of Lisa, Jessica Trevor. That was a failure. But Lisa is a different story. She was consistently experimented on, using new viruses and whatnot, trying to get a reaction. For some unknown reason, she appeared immune to whatever it was the scientists injected her with, and she adapted to it to stay alive. When they gave the Nemesis parasite to her, her body destroyed it. Also, the G-Virus, which comes into play later on, is extracted from her. There are a few instances in which you meet up with her, and each one is unpleasant. Lisa has drastically mutated, because of all of the experiments she had to endure. When she started to tear the faces off of the workers, because she thought they were her mother, Umbrella decided she was too dangerous and supposedly disposed of her. But she gets loose, only to meet up with a couple of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha members. The last anyone sees of her is her grabbing her mother's skull from a coffin, and jumping into a pit of darkness. There’s no way to know if she remains alive, but after the events of RE3, my opinion is that she’s definitely a goner.
Throughout the whole ordeal, Wesker uses Barry's family against him, by making up a lie that there were people at his house ready to take out his wife and daughters if he didn't cooperate with Wes. So he did. When they get to the lab, however, Wesker unveils to the unsuspecting S.T.A.R.S. that he's been working with Umbrella for a long time (since he was 18, he explains in Wesker’s Report II). He unleashes the ultimate Umbrella creation thus far, knowing that it would certainly cause some damage. After Tyrant breaks out, it impales Wesker, and goes after the remaining team. The self-destruct system has been activated. They escape the underground laboratory, and head up onto the helipad. Brad is circling above, trying to get into a good position to land, but then a claw crashes up through the cement. Tyrant. They battle it out, dodging and firing but to no avail, until Brad throws something down from the helicopter. A rocket launcher. So the enemy is literally blown to pieces. The survivors after the terrible night in the mansion filled the mutants include: Rebecca Chambers, Barry Burton, Jill Valentine, and Chris Redfield, who climb aboard the copter, and fly away into the sunrise as the mansion behind them explodes into nothing.
At several points in this game, Jill meets up with Barry, and Chris meets up with Rebecca. The accounts of who died: Kevin by unknown causes; Joseph Frost by dogs; Kenneth Sullivan by a zombie; Forest Speyer by crows; Richard Aiken by a poisonous snake bite or by Neptune the shark; and Enrico Marini by being shot by Barry. Rebecca is the only Bravo team survivor.
- Resident Evil 2 –
A couple of months after the initial mansion incident, presumably late September or early October, a new nightmare begins in the city in which it first took place, Raccoon. Now the threat has spread, however, infecting most of the town and causing it to be overrun by zombies. How did this outbreak occur? From rats in the sewers picking up the T-Virus into their system and infecting other things, although they themselves did not mutate. Leon Scott Kennedy is riding into Raccoon for his first day on the job as a rookie cop at the Raccoon Police Department. He notices that the town seems almost deserted, and is curious about it. After turning on a street, his headlights spot a murder of crows surrounding a girl's body in the middle of the road. He gets out, taking his gun with him, and walks over to examine the unmoving body. When he hears something like a groan behind him, he turns around and sees what appears to be a drunk couple.
They stumble towards him, and then he feels something pulling at his boot. He looks back down to find the corpse grabbing at it, trying to bite into it. Obviously it's shocking for Leon, or anyone for that matter, to have something you could have sworn was dead trying to take a piece of flesh right out of you. He manages not to be bitten, and let's off several bullets from his gun as more and more of the zombies start to appear and wander towards him, their hunger the only driving factor to keep them moving. As Leon tries to figure out what the hell is going on, we are introduced to another new character...
Claire Redfield is the younger sister of Chris Redfield, one of the survivors of the original mansion night. She rides into Raccoon City on her motorcycle to check up on her brother because he hasn't contacted her for a little while like he usually does. She also notices that the town seems deserted, and stops in at a diner that she and Chris have eaten at in the past to see if anyone there had seen him recently. The place is pretty much quiet and there appears to be no one around. That is, until Claire steps around the corner of the counter. To her surprise, she sees a man crouching over a waitress, biting into her. The zombie apparently hears her behind him, and decided that he'd like a little desert.
The zombies start to surround and place, and Claire has to escape immediately. She opens the exit to leave just to have a man (Leon) point a gun at her head. She ducks down and he shoots the zombie that was right behind her. Together they make their way to the street, and find a cop car that happens to have the keys still in it. They buckle up, introducing themselves to each other, and Claire opens the glove compartment to find a handgun. She takes it as Leon starts driving, heading to the RPD station. They don't get very far, however, before a zombie that had been in the back seat the whole time pops out to try and bite them. Leon swerves and the zombie ends up going through the windshield and onto the hood of the car. They actually get stuck, and from behind them hear something. It's a big truck coming at them, seemingly out of control. Right before it comes in contact with the car, Leon and Claire are able to escape. After the impact, they split up and head to the police station.
They both arrive, though at different times so that they remain split up for most of their time in the station. Claire meets a twelve-year-old girl named Sherry Birkin, while Leon "teams up” with a woman by the name of Ada Wong. Now, Sherry is the daughter of two Umbrella scientists, William and Annette Birkin. William worked with Wesker at the Spencer mansion facility for years and became Umbrella's top scientist. He was developing a virus that was on a higher level than the T-Virus, called the G-Virus, but Umbrella wanted it before it was fully finished. As a result, some Umbrella soldiers were sent in to obtain said virus, but only one of them (Hunk) was able to escape. But he did in fact get a sample. Although in the process, after Birkin was shot and left for dead, he injected himself with the G-Virus and mutated into a huge monster, which is how the soldiers were killed.
Ada Wong has a slightly different story. Like the Umbrella soldiers, she was also sent in to steal a sample of the G-Virus. But not from that company. So basically, she's like a secret agent. Leon and her seem to have a hidden attraction to each other, but neither of them really show it. When they first meet up, she tells Leon that she is looking for a reporter, Ben Bertolucci, because he might be able to tell them about what's going on. Of course, she doesn't tell him her real motives. They find Ben in a holding cell but can't get any answers out him...however, he does tell them that they might be able to escape through the sewers, so that's where they go next. They end up having to split up, but do find each other again later. When walking through the halls of the labs, Ada is suddenly shot at. But before she gets hit, Leon dives in front of her, taking her with him, but getting shot in the left shoulder in the process. Leon will be fine, but Ada leaves him to chase after the woman, who she believes she knows. Oh, and I forgot to mention: Ben is killed by some type of parasite, a G-Virus creature, which embedded itself inside of him and ate its way out (it burst through his chest).
After Leon is able to focus, he decided to try to go and find wherever Ada went off to. He does so only because he hears gunshots. He heads towards them and discovers a huge alligator, obviously infected with the G-Virus. After Leon kills it, him and Ada meet back up. They find what seems like it could be an escape, but once inside, a monster slashes through one of the walls and hits Ada's shoulder, injuring her. What was it? Birkin.
He eventually finds out about Ada, but she is *supposedly* killed by Annette Birkin. Annette dies. A monster comes after Leon (William Birkin). Leon battles him more than once, each time in a different form. All while this is going on, Claire and Sherry are being stalked by a different creature, who Claire gives the nickname, “Mr. X”. Beforehand, Claire had run into the police chief, Brian Irons, who was later killed by Birkin. Sherry and Claire are split up at one point, and Sherry is infected with the G-Virus. Fortunately, Claire is able to get a cure for the virus and injects it into the girl. Claire kills Mr. X, and Leon kills Birkin with the help from a mysterious stranger who drops a rocket launcher down to him just in time. Eventually, the trio meet back up with each other, and they escape the city together. What happened to Raccoon you ask? The viruses leaked out and infected the entire city. Also, read the RE3 storyline for this to be fully finished.
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis -
This takes place 24 hours before and 24 hours after the events of Resident Evil 2. Jill Valentine, one of the survivors of the mansion incident, is trying to escape Raccoon and get to Europe where the other S.T.A.R.S. survivors are waiting for her. After wandering, she discovers Brad Vickers, the Alpha pilot, is still there. She first meets up with him in a bar, but he’s quick to run off, obviously frightened by something. Jill soon finds out why when she watches him die by the...tentacles of the Nemesis, who is now after Jill. Nemesis is an experiment from Umbrella (a division in France), sent to detect and eliminate all existing ex-S.T.A.R.S. team members. It was made from the NE-T-Virus, most likely a combination of the T-Virus and the Nemesis parasite. Jill meets up with a UBCS (Umbrella Bio-Hazard Counter-Measure Service) soldier, named Carlos Oliveira. He’s a mercenary who was sent in by Umbrella to help cover up the outbreak, but most of the people that were sent in didn’t know about what the company was really up to.
They help out each other, especially when Carlos has to find the cure for the virus inside of Nemesis, because it hurt Jill and the virus got into her system. He gets it at the hospital, and finds a UBCS squad leader there, named Nicholai Ginovaef. Nicholai is trying to get the cure for himself, to make himself valuable to Umbrella, killing everyone he has to in order get it. He is part of the Operation Watchdog, with several others who were sent in. They’re supposed to collect combat data and return it to Umbrella. After escaping near death as the hospital explodes, Carlos gets back to her and cures her. After more chaos, Jill kills the Nemesis after many situations involving him, using the classic line of "You want S.T.A.R.S.? I'll give you S.T.A.R.S.!" They escape in a helicopter as the city is nuked and explodes. There’s a couple different ways this ends…one is where Barry Burton saves the day by arriving in a helicopter and helping them escape. Also, in one ending Nicholai dies, and in the other he doesn’t. As far as we know as of now, Nicholai is still alive. There are also epilogue files you can unlock, one of which is of Ada Wong…and you find out that she survived. In Wesker’s Report, he explains that he saved her.
- Resident Evil Code: Veronica/X –
Claire Redfield was captured by Umbrella three months after the Raccoon City incident, because she infiltrated their Headquarters in Europe. The man that actually caught her was named Rodrigo Juan Raval, and she was sent to an isolated prison island, owned of course by Umbrella, called Rockfort. He let's her go when the island is attacked, and she soon after leaving her cell meets up with a guy named Steve Burnside. Steve's story: His father worked for Umbrella and stole information, selling it off to the highest bidder. But he was caught, and Steve's mother was killed, and him and his father were sent to the island.
They split up, because Steve thinks she'll just slow him down and he takes off. Claire follows him and ends up running into him again a couple of buildings away. Steve informs her (he had been looking on a computer in the room) that her brother, Chris, is being monitored by Umbrella. He jokingly suggests to her that she should send Chris the coordinates so he can come. She takes it seriously, but then Steve kind of gets pissed and says that you can't depend on people, that Chris wouldn't come, and then storms out of the room. Claire decided to go ahead and send an e-mail to Leon Kennedy, giving him the coordinates of the island.
They meet up again, however, after Claire finds the way he went and ends up in a type of mansion and saves his life. Steve and Claire eventually escape after encountering Alfred Ashford several times, who thinks he's two different people; him and his sister Alexia. The real Alexia is not around yet, but they are part of a family in which one of the Umbrella founders was in. The plane they escape onto goes into autopilot, and heads to Antarctica. They almost escape the place, but then the real Alexia awakes from stasis with a lot of power. Alexia made a virus 15 years ago called the T-Veronica Virus. She first experimented with this virus on their father, Alexander Ashford, which turns into a failure (he turned into Nosferatu because of it). So she revises it, and for it to take effect, must be frozen in stasis for 15 years before awaking. She takes down Steve and Claire's vehicle, and it gets lit on fire.
Chris arrives at the prison island, but learns from Wesker that Claire's not there and tells where she is. Yes, that's right, Albert Wesker is alive. Of course, it’s quite a shocking revelation for Chris, here. Chris flies himself to Antarctica, and eventually reunites with Claire, but she won't leave without Steve. But once she finds him, he changes in to a mutant thanks to Alexia Ashford, who injected him with the same virus she injected into her father. Steve comes back right before he slices into Claire's neck...and dies while saving her. Chris fights Alexia after detonating the self-destruct system, and is able to defeat her. This is where CV ends. Now in CVX, Wesker takes Claire hostage and Chris goes after them. They fight it out after Wesker says he's taken Steve's body because it has the T-Veronica Virus in it (actually he says T-Alexia Virus, although I don’t know why), and that he might even come back as Wesker did. Something splits them up though (Chris and Wesker), so Claire and Chris escape vowing to destroy Umbrella once and for all.
- Resident Evil Ø –
The S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team is sent in on July 23rd, 1998, to investigate some strange murders occurring recently in the city of Raccoon City. They have to set down, because of a technicality wrong with the helicopter. They split up, and Rebecca Chambers finds an abandoned train in the middle of Raccoon Forest. She meets up with Billy Coen, an ex-navy seal who has been convicted of 23 murders that he really did not commit.
They team up, and together they find some secrets that were not previously known in the other RE games. They find an Umbrella Training Facility, and an underground treatment plant, along with a church. And in them, creatures that could not be explained. The man in the white robe is revealed as... Dr. James Marcus himself! He has been controlling the leeches and wants revenge on Umbrella for something that happened so very long ago (his death that William Birkin and Albert Wesker were a part of). It is also revealed that this is the man who created the T-Virus, by combining the Progenitor Virus (something he made) and leech DNA.
The ending is of Billy and Rebecca parting and going their separate ways, pretending that Billy just become another zombie or was killed. They look down upon the old Spencer mansion, which is Rebecca's next destination. Rebecca steals his dog tag and puts it on herself. Billy heads off into the coming night (or day), as Rebecca starts down the hill into the darkening forest, toward where her fate takes her...
- Resident Evil 4 -
Six years have passed since the terrible incident in Raccoon City that left over 100,000 people without their lives. Leon Kennedy was one of the only known survivors, along with Claire Redfield, Sherry Birkin, Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliveira, Nicholai Ginovaef, and Hunk. After those events, Leon was approached by an unidentifiable man who claimed to work for the government and who also wanted to take over the protection of Sherry. That was the last Leon saw of her before Wesker gains possession of the young girl. Now, Leon is a government agent. The US government has effectively destroyed Umbrella by causing their stock to crash, which could be considered payback for making them drop a missile on their own city. Without enough money, the corporation was no longer able to run.
Leon is assigned to investigate the kidnapping of Ashley Graham, the new President's daughter. He is sent to a small region in Europe where the girl has apparently been sighted. Ingrid Hunnigan, who will be contacting him throughout his mission, is his link to the outer world. Once he gets there, however, things take a turn for the worse. The two men he arrives with go missing, and the village he enters is overrun with people who are hell-bent on killing him. He eventually finds Ashley locked in a church. When they begin to leave, Lord Osmund Saddler introduces himself—the leader of the people in the area and the religious cult, the Los Illuminados. He reveals that they've been implanted with the parasite, La Plaga, that he has used to take control of the people that Leon and Ashley come across while they're in the region (and later, the island). They escape the building and make their way to a new place—-a castle. The owner? Ramon Salazar, the eighth Castellan of the castle. He felt guilty about his ancestors taking away power from the Los Illuminados long ago, so he assisted in digging up the Las Plagas—the parasites that were buried underground hundreds of years ago. The villagers who helped dig up Las Plagas became infected with them, and began to act differently, and thus started what Leon stumbles upon.
There's another factor in all of this—Luis Sera. He was a researcher for Saddler but escaped when he found out the true purpose of the experiments they were conducting, which was to figure out a way to prevent the parasite from being removed from someone's body. He tries to help Ashley and Leon, but ultimately fails and is murdered by Saddler. Before he dies, however, a person from Leon's past pays him a visit: Ada Wong. Originally, she was thought to be dead, but Wesker helped out in that aspect by saving her. Leon apparently knows about her survival, as he even tells her that he knows she is working with Wesker. She has again been sent by him to collect a sample of the parasite. She leaves soon after she arrives. Not long after Leon reunites with Ashley after she's caught in a trap, she's taken again—this time to an island owned by Saddler. Leon has to battle against a mutated Salazar and comes out successful, getting rid of that inconvenience. Ada drives you there in a boat and takes off again. Leon meets up with Ashley again, but she isn't around for long—Saddler enables his control over the parasite inside of her and gets her to come with him.
Afterwards, Leon meets up with a man he used to work with. Krauser supposedly died two years ago, but this is clearly not the case. He has some type of virus in him, though it's unknown exactly what it is. Along with Ada, he's working for Wesker, although he's a bit different. He's been working—or more accurately, pretending to be working—for Saddler to gain his trust. Krauser is the insider from the government who kidnapped Ashley. He does know that Saddler doesn't trust him, but goes along with the plan anyway. He feels that Ada has a different agenda from his own, and from Wesker's, but calls her in to assist him regardless. She actually ends up breaking up a fight between he and Leon. But, that's not the end of Krauser. Leon meets back up with him and has to take him out for good, though it's not a simple task—because of the virus inside of him, Krauser can take a lot of damage and is very quick. Leon is up to the challenge, and then continues his search for Ashley after Krauser is dead. In the next area, Leon is contacted by a helicopter pilot—Mike—who is ready to provide plenty of cover for him after the first evacuation failed. Unfortunately, their bonding experience is short lived as Mike is killed by one of Saddler's followers.
Soon after, Leon comes across Ashley in a lab area, along with Saddler. Luckily, Ada is there to distract the cult leader long enough to allow the two of them to escape. Both Leon and Ashley are able to have the parasites removed from their body. As they're ready to leave the island for good, someone gets in their way—Saddler. Leon cuts down Ada when he sees her suspended in the air and tells her to stay out of the fight—so she does. Unsurprisingly, Saddler mutates into a monster, and Leon has to battle it. When the fight is almost over, Ada is the savior once again: she throws him a rocket launcher. He uses it, and it takes the creature out immediately. Afterwards, she holds him at gunpoint and makes him give her the sample of the parasite that he took. What does she really want it for? Wesker is trying to rebuild the Umbrella Corporation, and this will help them in doing so.
Ada also has the key to a jet-ski bike—which she gives to Leon after setting off the island's self-destruct system and flying off in her escape helicopter. He runs and gets Ashley and together they speed through the water-filled tunnels and out into the ocean. Ashley does decide to hit on Leon, but he turns her down, later flirting with Ingrid. They ride off into the sunrise on the jet-ski. Mission accomplished.
- Resident Evil 5 -
It's been ten years since Raccoon City's destruction. The Umbrella Corporation has fallen, but their legacy lives on. In addition to being sent to Africa on a BSAA mission, Chris Redfield has his own personal reason for going there: to find out the truth about his former partner, Jill Valentine. Two years prior, he and Jill had been searching for Spencer, Umbrella's creator, but found him dead with Wesker standing over his body. A fight occurred, and Jill saved Chris's life by tackling Wesker out of a window, and over a cliff. They searched for her body for months, but a body was never found.
The story starts out with the objective of finding and apprehending a known bioweapons smuggler, Ricardo Irving. Even with Umbrella gone, there's a black market for bioweapons, and that's what the BSAA (Bio-terrorism Assessment Alliance) was created for--to stop bioweapons threats. After arriving in the area, Chris is introduced to his partner for the mission, a West African native, Sheva Alomar. It's clear from the way Chris hesitantly calls her his "partner" that he's not willing to completely accept her as that, as he's still reeling of what happened to Jill. In addition to that, he's been questioning whether it's all worth fighting for.
The two of them are able to track Irving down, but he injects himself with the parasite and turns into a monster. As he's dying, he tells Chris that the answers he's looking for are in the cave ahead. At this point, we've also seen a few glimpses of a woman dressed in a cloak with a bird-type of mask on.
Tricell has basically taken over as the new Umbrella. They're a pharmaceutical company, though they have other divisions, and, like Umbrella for so long, the general public knows nothing about their illegal activities. They have samples of the T, G, T-Veronica, and Progenitor Viruses, along with Las Plagas.
Much of the game focuses on the past, and how the past is affecting the present. It all goes back to the Progenitor Virus, which was found in Africa, in a flower known as the Stairway to the Sun. Upon moving this flower out of the area, the virus was no longer inside it. To truly cultivate the virus, they had to use it in that specific area. That's why Umbrella built a research facility there. After it closed, Tricell moved in.
Spencer's ultimate goal had been to create a new breed of superior humans, and to rule over them as a god. For this, he used the Progenitor Virus research, Umbrella, and a special project: the Wesker Children. This involved monitoring children who were born with "superior" parents, and instilling his own values into them. The last phase was injecting them with a virus, in order to weed out any weak ones. Spencer tells Wesker that he's the only survivor, but a couple of files indicate that this is a lie. All of the children in this project had something inside them that would cause them anxiety and the need to seek out Spencer himself. Wesker feels this and after a long time of searching, is able to do so.
Upon learning of all of this, Wesker kills Spencer, severing any control the old man had over him. After this, Wesker chooses to follow Spencer's vision, and begins the process of creating his own special virus to infect the world, and become a god himself over the world. Jill Valentine plays an important role in this development. Inside her body is remnants of the T-Virus from when she was infected back in Raccoon City by the Nemesis. After she tackles him over the cliff, he heals her and then keeps her in stasis, until he notices that something inside her body is changing. What was inside her ended up making it possible for him to make the Uroboros Virus, the ultimate one he's been wanting.
At first, he had been planning on testing the virus on her, but after all of the developments, that would prove to be useless. Instead, a chemical substance was found that would give a host superhuman powers and make them able to be controlled. In order for the virus to be continuously administered, he implanted a device on her chest. Ever since then, he's been controlling her, and she's the mysterious cloaked figure.
Chris and Sheva discover this, and Chris is desperate to save her. After a fight, he's able to do so. Jill feels guilty about everything she's done, but tells them she's alright and that they have to go on without her and stop Wesker. It's at this point that Chris finally is able to fully accept Sheva as
his new partner. Excella Gionne, CEO of Tricell's African Branch, has been helping Wesker for a while and has some type of partnership with him. The two of them go after Wesker and, with Jill's helpfulness, inject him with a serum that will weaken him, and they sabotage his plan to launch missiles over the world, which would spread the Uroboros Virus. The plane they're on crashes, and they
end up in a volcano. In a last ditch effort, Wesker uses the Uroboros Virus on himself, and is seemingly able to control it. However, Chris and Sheva are able to defeat him.
Jill shows up in a helicopter and lowers a ladder that Chris and Sheva use to get onto the copter. Afterwards, they each hold a rocket launcher and fire a shot into Wesker, finally killing him. Chris, Jill, and Sheva escape in the helicopter, with Chris knowing that it is worth fighting for.
Written by ryodin.
The following is the accounts of the events leading to the destruction of Raccoon City, and describes what occurs before and during RE2 and RE3.
THE DEATH OF RACCOON CITY
Tuesday - September 22nd, 1998
It was on this date that the fate of Raccoon City was sealed. And it all started with the greed of a single scientist working deep beneath the streets of the city in a top-secret laboratory owned by Umbrella, Inc.
An Umbrella U.B.C.S. operative, nicknamed “Hunk,” leads a recovery team down into the Raccoon City sewers to reach Dr. William Birkin’s lab. He is sent by Christine Henri, the R&D Facility Head Manager of Umbrella's French Division, with instructions to retrieve the G-virus sample from Birkin's lab by any means necessary. After obtaining the sample, his orders are to personally deliver the contents to Loire Village in France. Word has leaked to Umbrella HQ of Birkin's plans to keep the discovery of the G-virus to himself, and the U.B.C.S. force has been dispatched to rectify the situation
Part of the team captures Annette, while the other half confronts the rebellious Dr. Birkin himself. After refusing to give up the samples, William Birkin is shot with multiple bullets to his body. Hunk snatches Birkin’s briefcase containing the T- and G-virus samples, and his team quickly exits. Free of her captors, Annette rushes to her dying husband’s side, then runs off to find medical supplies.
While she’s away, William reaches down and injects a massive sample of the as yet untested G-virus into his body. The virus works quickly and mutates the scientist into a huge, hulking monster. Birkin rises and stumbles through the sewers in hot pursuit of his attackers. He systematically hunts down each U.B.C.S. member and kills them all with vicious speed. Bullets appear to have no effect on his mutated form. During the scuffle, the case containing the samples is dropped, smashing open vials and spreading the contents of the T-virus all over the sewer floors. Rats quickly begin to spread the virus throughout the sewer system across the entire city.
Afraid for her family's safety, and knowing full well the devastating effects of the T-virus spreading through the sewers, Annette Birkin calls their daughter, Sherry, at home and tells the child that it is not safe to be alone.
She urges Sherry to make her way to the R.P.D. station in the center of town . . . where she will be safe.
Wednesday - September 23rd, 1998
One day after Hunk and his U.B.C.S. team botches Umbrella's efforts to recover the G-virus from Dr. William Birkin and spreading the T-virus across the sewers in the process, increasing signs of T-virus infection begin to spring up amongst the population of Raccoon City. A field reporter with the Raccoon City Times makes the gruesome discovery that the rumors of a "cannibal disease" moving swiftly throughout the city are indeed true. He witnesses with his own two eyes a single, deranged man savagely attack a group of people and tear their flesh apart like an animal. Hearing of similar, though isolated, incidents simultaneously occuring across the city, the reporter makes up his mind to gather more evidence before going public with the story.
Meanwhile, Brian Irons, the R.P.D.'s Chief of Police, is furious that Umbrella went back on its promise to keep his city safe. Having been in the mega-corporation's pockets for close to 5 years now, he no longer feels he can rely on the company after discovering the mayhem caused by William Birkin and Umbrella's commando team. Suspecting that the city will soon be overrun with zombies, and that he himself might already be infected, Chief Irons vows to bring down the whole city with him. After all the security he provided for Umbrella's secret experiments, turning a blind eye and misdirecting nosy media and his own S.T.A.R.S. members, the Chief feels betrayed and duped. He decides that if he has to die infected by the T-virus, he will ensure that everyone else is killed off, too.
Meanwhile, after cancelling their previous game due to illness, the Umbrella sewage plant worker, Thomas, easily beats the R.P.D. night watchman at a game of chess. The watchman observes that Thomas does not look well, and that the Umbrella worker never ceases talking about food . . . .
Thursday - September 24th, 1998
By evening of this day, "zombies" are now roaming the streets of Raccoon City in increasing numbers. Citizens who survive their encounters with these loose gangs of flesh-eating maniacs begin to seek shelter at the R.P.D. station. Trying to make sense of the flood of panicked people suddenly demanding answers, the modest sized police force begins patrolling the city vigorously.
Meanwhile, intent on carrying out his ominous plan, Chief Brian Irons starts sowing the seeds of confusion amongst his men. Promising to get help from law enforcement sources outside the city, Chief Irons instead tampers with and eventually severs all communication to the outside world from inside the precinct. He stands by as he sends his men onto the streets to meet certain doom, while counting on the confusion thus sown to keep the citizens from discovering the truth before its too late. He also ensures that all escape routes from the precinct are cut off as well, including denying access to the sewers in the basement levels.
And, while on patrol this day, R.P.D. Sgt. Marvin Branagh discovers the theft of two jewels from the clock face at the main gate of the municipal building near the center of town. Due to a shortage of available men, however, he suspends investigation into the theft for the time being . . .
Friday - September 25th, 1998
At the recommendation and urging of R.P.D. Chief Brian Irons, Mayor Michael Warren declares martial law in Raccoon City due to the rising "zombie" epidemic. All communication with the outside world is severed, and transportation into and out of the city is prohibited.
Meanwhile, more and more citizens seek shelter within the precinct walls. To make matters harder for the police force to defend the city, Chief Irons orders one of his men to relocate all the weapons in the arsenal to more scattered locations throughout the precinct under the pretense to prevent domestic terrorism. He then kills the man to ensure no one is able to access the locations.
And, realizing that his contact with other media outlets outside Raccoon City has been lost, the investigative reporter for the Raccoon City Times remains steadfast in his resolve to uncover the truth behind the "cannibal disease" outbreak that is ravaging the city. He becomes certain that not only has the disease not spread nationwide yet, but that its origins must be from within the city as well. He surmises that the cure for the disease therefore must reside somehwere in the city too, and seeks to discover it before he himself is infected or killed.
Saturday - September 26th, 1998
In the early pre-dawn hours on this day, the Umbrella employee from the sewage treatment plant, Thomas, stops by to visit the night watchman and to cancel their habitual chess game due to illness. The watchman tells Thomas to go back home and rest, and worries that his chess buddy is looking like the "walking dead." He realizes that he, too, is not feeling so well.
Later that morning, the R.P.D. station is unexpectedly attacked by a huge mob of zombies. Many officers die in attempts to hold off the undead, as well as many civilians who have taken shelter in the precinct. Chief Irons further hampers efforts inside the station to find weapons caches for use against the zombies, and also cuts electrical circuits at key locations. After the zombies are finally repelled away from the station long enough for the survivors to regroup, a plan is formed to set out en masse in order to rescue living citizens from off the streets and to contain the disaster that has suddenly befallen the city.
Meanwhile, a 42-year old restaurant owner who sought refuge in the precinct just before the attack develops symptoms of the T-virus and is shot dead within ten minutes. Upon examination of the body, it is discovered that he was carrying the two missing gems from the clock face at the municipal building. Sgt. Marvin Branagh considers the case closed, although he has no idea what the motive could have been.
Later this night and across town at the hospital, most of the doctors and staff are killed in a battle against zombie patients who had trickled in days before complaining of soreness and itchiness. While hiding out in his office awaiting the inevitable, the hospital's director comes to the realization that he has also been infected with what he's termed the "zombie disease."
Sunday - September 27th, 1998
In the pre-dawn, twilight hours of this new day -- just a few hours after the attack on the hospital -- all hell breaks loose on the streets of Raccoon City. The zombie masses have by now swelled to large hordes of ravenous, vicious, brain-dead creatures intent on killing every living thing in sight. The few survivors run terrified for their lives through the streets.
Reacting to the threat of exposure, Umbrella dispatches several U.B.C.S. teams by helicopter into the city in an attempt to contain the outbreak. Within three hours, however, most of the teams are decimated, with the remaining living commandos scattered and running for their lives.
Meanwhile, back at the R.P.D. station, officers rush out of the precinct to make a last concerted stand against the zombies, and are joined by SWAT teams to help turn the tide. Together, they work at barricading major streets and side-alleys with debris, metal fences, and police vehicles in an effort to stem the tide and divide the city into more manageable sectors to contain the diseased creatures. However, the pressing mob is too much for the police forces to handle and they quickly become overrun. Defeated, the last remaining survivors rush back to the precinct and barricade the doors and windows as best they can.
Later this afternoon, zombies break through the precinct’s west barricade and kill several more people. Twelve injured survivors are rushed into the evidence room as shelter against the creatures now roaming the halls inside the precinct. A “Licker,” one of several advanced T-virus specimen types now loose in the city, enters the station and kills three more victims.
Chief Irons, having decided not to leave the survivors in his precinct to the mercy of the zombie hordes, leaves his hiding place in the station and starts hunting down the living one by one for his own amusement. He lets the mayor's daughter escape in hopes of tracking her down and having his fun with her later, but brutally murders the others with wanton abandon. He later writes in his journal the extreme joy experienced over shooting one of his men in the back as he tried to escape, then watching the life slowly drain from behind the dying man's eyes. By nightfall, most of the survivors in the precinct are dead. The remaining four devise a plan to escape the precinct, and possibly the entire city, through the sewers. They are never heard from again.
Outside the station, Raccoon City is a nightmarish wasteland. The streets are teeming with ungodly creatures and unspeakable sights. The few surviving humans are picked off one by one and subsequently infected with the same T-virus that spawned the creatures. The U.S. military, apparently tipped off (anonymously) by Umbrella itself, starts the tedious and slow work of barricading the city from the outside, enforcing a quarantine. Any survivors are left to fend for themselves. Tens of thousands of citizens are already dead.
Holed up in her apartment and surveying the state of affairs from her window, Jill Valentine summons her resolve and decides to make a final bid for survival and escape the city. In dramatic fashion, she escapes the hordes of zombies surrounding her building and begins her quest . . .
Monday - September 28th, 1998
Jill Valentine, after barely escaping her apartment complex with her life, spends the morning of this new day in hell running through the alleyways of downtown Raccoon City armed only with her standard issue. Following the screams of helpless civilians and professional soldiers alike, she often arrives too late to be of much help, but in time to witness gruesome scenes of bloody consumption by gangs of zombies. After escaping numerous encounters with roving bands of the undead, Jill finally manages to reach the R.P.D. station, unaware of the horrors that have transpired there earlier. She encounters fellow S.T.A.R.S. member Brad Vickers before the entrance, but after a brief greeting and assessment of the situation, Brad is suddenly and viciously killed by a hideous hulk of a monster. The imposing creature, known as the Nemesis and sent by Umbrella, is intent on eliminating all S.T.A.R.S. members. Before Nemesis can vist on her the pain he just dealt to her comrade, Jill rushes into the station and barricades the double doors behind her. After a cursory search through R.P.D. headquarters, Jill discovers the building is devoid of any living humans. All the cops who made the building their last stand are dead.
After encountering the Nemesis again in the narrow halls of the precinct, Jill opts not to stick around R.P.D. HQ and quickly rushes out of the building, heading further uptown. She meets Carlos Oliviera, one of the few surviving members of the U.B.C.S. mercenary group who was cut off from the rest of his squad. The two team-up in hope of working together to find a way out of the nightmare.
Later that night, while investigating a possible helicopter extraction point, Jill runs into the Nemesis yet again and is infected with a weakened strain of the T-virus in the ensuing battle. Carlos manages to fight the creature off and carries Jill to a nearby chapel, where she will remain feverish and unconscious for the next two days.
Minutes before midnight, a truck driver making a pit stop at a gas station on his way through town is inexplicably attacked and bitten by the attendant. The driver knocks the guy over and hops back into his truck in heated anger. As he pulls out of the station clutching a rag over his wound, the driver wonders aloud why that "maniac" attacked him like that . . .
Tuesday - September 29th, 1998
Shortly after midnight on this new day, while Jill lies unconscious in the chapel uptown, Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy both arrive separately in Raccoon City - Claire by motorcycle; Leon by jeep. Claire had taken some time off from college to find out why her brother, Chris Redfield, had not been returning her phone calls. Leon, a new recruit to the Raccoon Police Dept., shows up from out of town for his first night of duty. After each running into bizarre, grotesque creatures, the two meet up for the first time and barely escape a mob of the undead in an abandoned police cruiser. After making each other's acquaintance, they are suddenly accosted by the now zombified truck driver as he mindlessly plows his rig through the streets and straight into the cruiser. Ditching the car and taking cover just in time, Leon and Claire are separated by a wall of flames. Having no other option, the two agree to make their separate ways through the city and to rendezvous at R.P.D. headquarters.
As Claire enters the precinct from one end, and Leon from the other, a helicopter drops one of six large canisters it’s transporting directly over Claire’s head. The canister smashes through the roof of the precinct and lands on the second floor, releasing a thawing and lethargic Tyrant. The Tyrant has been sent by Umbrella to retrieve Birkin’s G-virus sample. Claire runs into the hulking, albino killer and barely escapes with her life. The Tyrant, meanwhile, begins to systematically tear through the station room by room in search of the G-virus he can somehow sense is nearby.
Meanwhile, the remaining five Tyrant canisters are transported over to the disposal facility where Umbrella has learned that a U.S. Army special forces team has been dispatched by the government to obtain the G-virus. The agents enter into a fierce battle with the Tyrants, managing to kill all of the creatures only after a massive loss of life on their side. Their mission to find a viable sample of the G-virus, however, is a failure.
Back at the R.P.D. station, Claire and Leon reunite inside the S.T.A.R.S. office, and come to the realization that Chris
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Developer: [link=http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025017.html]Capcom[/link]
Genre: Third-Person Action Adventure (Survival-Horror)
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Resident Evil
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The first Resident Evil game was created for Sony Playstation in 1996. It was a pioneer for the survival-horror genre, and is known for its great graphics (back then), spooky atmosphere and lousy, yet absolutely hilarious voice-acting. This game was later remade for Nintendo Gamecube.
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Note: While keeping the fans waiting for the release of Resident Evil 2, Capcom released Resident Evil: Director's Cut. A collection of different versions, Director's Cut contains the Japanese (or easy) version, the original US version, plus the Arrange mode, with new camera angles, rearranged scenes, and more gore.
Resident Evil 2
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The famous sequel to the original game was made for Sony Playstation in 1998. Many hardcore Resident Evil fanatics still find this one to be their favorite. Many improvements have been made, compared to the first game, such as new weapons (machine gun, grenade launcher, C4 explosives) better character animation, interactive backgrounds, improved FMV sequences and slightly better character acting. The game itself takes place a few months after the ending of the first one.
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
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The third Resident Evil game for Sony Playstation, released in 1999. Whether you're a new fan or an old expert, this new iteration is solid stuff, a deep, more action-reliant adventure game, complete with the creepy mutants and undead of the past, and new ones to torture your dreams. Ducks and dodges are added to the 180 spin. A new Live Choice aspect makes things interesting too. Not much to say about the graphical evolution, still pixelly, but still far better looking than its predecessors. The FMVs are a little disappointing. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is known to be one of the harder games in the series.
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Resident Evil Code: Veronica X
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Originally created for Dreamcast as Resident Evil Code: Veronica, in 2000, and later ported to Sony Playstation2, in 2001, and Nintendo Gamecube in 2003. This game is a lot less dark and edgy than the previous ones, but remains nevertheless fun and atmospheric. The graphics are smooth, nothing to write home about, but they're good enough and you won't be bothered by clipping mistakes or pixelly realtime characters anymore.
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Resident Evil (GCN remake)
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The remake of the very first Resident Evil game has found its way to Nintendo Gamecube. It was released in 2002, and is far more atmospheric, scary and beautiful than any of the previous games. New enemies, surround sound, new areas and dramatically improved graphics,... Thumbs up for this one!
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Resident Evil Zero
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This one takes place before the first Resident Evil game and the mansion incident. It's a Gamecube exclusive, released in 2002, with unique new gameplay aspects. The Item Boxes have disappeared and you can now drop items anywhere in the game, on the floor and you can switch between the two playable characters while playing, making the strategic aspect of the game a lot more interesting. The graphics are superb, just like those of the Resident Evil remake.
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Resident Evil Survivor
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This game sucks. Well ok, let me start over. It is a psuedo first-person-shooter/adventure game. It's actually an awesome concept, because you walk around exploring, picking up items and reading journals that progress the story. But they did not include Light-Gun support in the American game (it was in the Japanese version,) which really hurt the game. A lot of people agree that if they had thrown that in, it would have made the game much more fun.
Besides that, there is no real purpose in playing this game then seeing a kinda cool side-story move along. The graphics are also pretty good for it's time, but still not great.
Overall, it's a decent game at best. If you have beaten everything else in your collection, but still have a craving for RE, check it out. It's like 10 bucks anyway.
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Resident Evil Dead Aim
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Join anti-Umbrella searchand pursuit team agent, Bruce MacGavin, as he encounters a new layer of Umbrella’s insidious activities. In this Resident Evil first-person action-shooter, you must search, sneak and use battle moves to regain control of a sea-jacked cruiseship lost in the Atlantic. And should you find yourself trapped amongst hordes of zombies and mutant beasts, your aim better be dead on … or you’re gone!
This is the third Survivor game that has been released. It does support the Guncon and offers a unique storyline. It's worth playing but should not be considered part of the storyline.
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Resident Evil Outbreak
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The very first attempt at Resident Evil online lands on the PS2. It was released in 2004 and pulls off a decent job. Beautiful graphics all in real-time and the collection system boosts replay value. The game contains 8 different characters to choose from each with their own special ability and unique item. The game is good teamwork fun and the scenarios can be played differently many times. IGN gave Outbreak 7.6 because of long load times, the fact that there are only 5 scenarios, some clipping issues, and all the other things in other RE games that the press don’t like. I however give it a solid 8. and highly recommend. The sequel Outbreak File #2 arrives on the PS2 in Feburary.
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Resident Evil Outbreak File 2
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A biological disaster has turned everyone around you into flesh-eating zombies, and now you and seven other survivors must work together to escape the city. In the sequel to Resident Evil: Outbreak, you can discover the truth behind the T-virus outbreak by exploring five new locales, including a zoo, the subway, the police station, raccoon city woods, and a Umbrella lab. As in its predecessor, Resident Evil: Outbreak File #2 features an online cooperative mode for up to four players. This game for the the PlayStation 2
Outbreak file 2 improves on its predecessor, it has even better graphics, it lessen load times (averaging 4-6 seconds between transitions instead of the ludicrous 12-17 second waits of the original),has less lag, the AI been changed but still not perfect, characters start with an additional item, has a lot more replayability and more tie ins to the main series. The game allows you to play with up to 3 other teammates. Besides just 5 scenarios it gives you get a scenario that teaches you how to play which was absent from the original. As well gives you 3 elimination scenarios where you must kill all the enemies in certain time limit with limited ammo based of difficulty settings. 3 showdown scenarios, where you fight bosses back to back pushing your skills with team-play and selective inventory. File 2 offers different difficulty on all its scenarios, they change the amount of puzzles and tasks to complete a level, as well as increase of enemies or adding new stronger enemies, while changing the amount of ammo and type of weapons. Online there also different events that add a new spin on a scenario and offer special unlockables as well as deathmatch. Unlike most resident evil games, the enemies keep coming you can't kill them all the goal is to finish scenario and escape. File 2 you can transfer your file data save to and from File 1 unlocking extras that add replayability to both games. IGN gave Outbreak File 2 a 6.5 only due to 6.0 gameplay value becuase it uses the orginal resident evil camera and has no voice chat both of which can be viewed as a good thing too. Actual score should be 8.0 or so.
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Why it's not 6.5
IGN gave it a 6.0 for gameplay lowering the good score that the game should have, they complained about it having the same old control crippling camera since spoiled by resident evil 4 fresh camera approach. Outbreak file 2 is homage to the old camera system which it uses to increase tension of not knowing whats around the corner and letting slow moving zombie the ability to sneak up enough to attack. If you enjoyed the old camera system of the other resident evil games then you be quite at home with this and how well they use this system.
IGN second complaint that there is no voice chat but they do not realize the cons of voice chat in a survivor horror game. First off, you are likely playing with strangers, some who have nothing better to do but senseless chatter and obscenities that would take from the atmosphere File 2 trying to present. As well there are players who want to be able to face the challenges that the unknown present, being told what to do leaves no room to explore and discover. File 2 offers more set commands that are used instead. It creates more of a challenge as well when you trying to convince a stranger to give you a item, infact I feel its more realistic feel. If you really want voice chat with friends, you can buy a hub and use third party software called teamspeak on the computer while you play.
Yes you may be in a scenario with people who do not have an idea on what to do, it will be more trouble for you but one must realized that you were like them before. I found it was a nice challenge to add replayability by trying to usher a friend through a scenario and keep them alive. Another problem of no voice is that a learned player may just leave you on your lonesome well they go on their way, well this abandonment certain adds to the survivor horror atmosphere even though takes away from the multilayer gives you a chance to explore and meet up with them later just to save them from some trouble.
Enjoy!
Detailed summary of the main six RE games, by DarkBlood999.
- Resident Evil REmake -
Bizarre murders have been plaguing the quiet, mid-western town of Raccoon City as of late. The victims have apparently been partially eaten, so it is assumed that this is the work of cannibals that are somewhere in Raccoon Forest, where the deaths have been occurring. Also on several of the victims, they have found the teeth marks that are from a dog's mouth. The killings started in the month of May. The police finally get the S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Rescue Squad) teams investigating the situation. The Bravo team is sent in to the forest to check out the area. Their helicopter appears to have crashed, dark smoke rising from the trees, so the Alpha team goes to try and help around the evening hours of Friday, July 24th, 1998. They split up, their pilot Brad Vickers keeping the helicopter's engine running, to search the surrounding place for signs of the Bravo team members. They search the downed Bravo helicopter, and sadly see the dead body of the pilot, Kevin [no last name is ever given]. The pilot was originally Edward Dewey.
The vehicle specialist, Joseph Frost, who is equipped with a camera, sweeps the surrounding area. Low growls come from the bushes, and within seconds, he's attacked. Before his teammates have a chance to get to him, several cerberi (zombie dogs) leap out to greet him with their blood lust and hunger. They pounce onto him, taking him down and biting into his throat. By the time the others get there, it's too late, and Jill Valentine stares in shock. Chris Redfield gets her out of the way, and they run towards where the helicopter set down. But as they near the copter, Brad sees what's chasing them and takes off, leaving the rest of the team behind to fend for themselves. That's where he got his nickname of "Chickenheart" Vickers.
The S.T.A.R.S. captain, Albert Wesker, tells his team to run for the mansion that is barely visible. They do so, having virtually no other choice besides getting killed by the dangerous dogs. They rush inside, closing the doors to insure their safety, and take a breather. They have no time to grieve, however, over the loss of Joseph. They know that they must find a way out, or find Bravo team survivors. So the four of them split up (Chris, Jill, Wesker and Barry Burton) in hopes they can find something that can help them, never expecting what lay ahead. Once through the dining room, you meet the first zombie ever seen, munching on Bravo team member, Kenneth Sullivan. Obviously this is a bit of a surprising discovery, but there are plenty of others that these poor souls wander into during the duration of the mansion exploration. This Spencer/Arklay estate was supposedly closed down and abandoned 30 years ago, due to the disappearance of George Trevor, the architect of the mansion.
A little more background on the estate is that it was designed by the infamous architect George Trevor, who stayed there while drawing up the plans. Together he and Spencer created traps and puzzles, for reasons unknown at the time. It was built for Umbrella workers, and had a secret laboratory underground, as well as a lab. The Alpha team soon finds out that scientists working for that very company have been conducting experiments with deadly viruses. The one that got loose into the air in the mansion was the T-Virus, standing for Tyrant Virus. Besides Umbrella employees, this is the first time anyone has found out who was behind this. There's a sector of the corporation called White Umbrella, which specializes in creating Biohazard weapons, and that was happening here. It was kept a secret until there was a spill on Monday, May 11 of 1998, and the T-Virus contaminated the mansion, causing everyone in it to be infected and turned into zombies.
That's what the murders were caused by. Makes sense now, right? Well here's another twist they find out: their captain, Wesker, is secretly working for Umbrella. He received orders to get rid of the evidence that was left inside of the mansion, so he brought in his unsuspecting team to help with that chore. Something Umbrella never even knew, however, was that he was planning faking his death so that he'd be out of their employment, considering he had plans of his own. And he really didn't need them trying to track him down. Soon before heading into this zombie-infested mansion, Wesker had been given a virus from William Birkin, another scientist who worked for Umbrella. It’s still unknown what virus it was, but I suspect it was an early sample of the G-Virus strain. After deciding it was a shame for the T-002 experiment to go to waste, he let it loose. Tyrant. And it put him in the state of death he needed in order for the virus to kick in and bring him back to how he is currently.
The most well known experiment that Umbrella ever performed at that point (besides the ‘failure’ of the Tyrant) was on the daughter of George Trevor, Lisa. Before her, they had tested on the wife of George and mother of Lisa, Jessica Trevor. That was a failure. But Lisa is a different story. She was consistently experimented on, using new viruses and whatnot, trying to get a reaction. For some unknown reason, she appeared immune to whatever it was the scientists injected her with, and she adapted to it to stay alive. When they gave the Nemesis parasite to her, her body destroyed it. Also, the G-Virus, which comes into play later on, is extracted from her. There are a few instances in which you meet up with her, and each one is unpleasant. Lisa has drastically mutated, because of all of the experiments she had to endure. When she started to tear the faces off of the workers, because she thought they were her mother, Umbrella decided she was too dangerous and supposedly disposed of her. But she gets loose, only to meet up with a couple of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha members. The last anyone sees of her is her grabbing her mother's skull from a coffin, and jumping into a pit of darkness. There’s no way to know if she remains alive, but after the events of RE3, my opinion is that she’s definitely a goner.
Throughout the whole ordeal, Wesker uses Barry's family against him, by making up a lie that there were people at his house ready to take out his wife and daughters if he didn't cooperate with Wes. So he did. When they get to the lab, however, Wesker unveils to the unsuspecting S.T.A.R.S. that he's been working with Umbrella for a long time (since he was 18, he explains in Wesker’s Report II). He unleashes the ultimate Umbrella creation thus far, knowing that it would certainly cause some damage. After Tyrant breaks out, it impales Wesker, and goes after the remaining team. The self-destruct system has been activated. They escape the underground laboratory, and head up onto the helipad. Brad is circling above, trying to get into a good position to land, but then a claw crashes up through the cement. Tyrant. They battle it out, dodging and firing but to no avail, until Brad throws something down from the helicopter. A rocket launcher. So the enemy is literally blown to pieces. The survivors after the terrible night in the mansion filled the mutants include: Rebecca Chambers, Barry Burton, Jill Valentine, and Chris Redfield, who climb aboard the copter, and fly away into the sunrise as the mansion behind them explodes into nothing.
At several points in this game, Jill meets up with Barry, and Chris meets up with Rebecca. The accounts of who died: Kevin by unknown causes; Joseph Frost by dogs; Kenneth Sullivan by a zombie; Forest Speyer by crows; Richard Aiken by a poisonous snake bite or by Neptune the shark; and Enrico Marini by being shot by Barry. Rebecca is the only Bravo team survivor.
- Resident Evil 2 –
A couple of months after the initial mansion incident, presumably late September or early October, a new nightmare begins in the city in which it first took place, Raccoon. Now the threat has spread, however, infecting most of the town and causing it to be overrun by zombies. How did this outbreak occur? From rats in the sewers picking up the T-Virus into their system and infecting other things, although they themselves did not mutate. Leon Scott Kennedy is riding into Raccoon for his first day on the job as a rookie cop at the Raccoon Police Department. He notices that the town seems almost deserted, and is curious about it. After turning on a street, his headlights spot a murder of crows surrounding a girl's body in the middle of the road. He gets out, taking his gun with him, and walks over to examine the unmoving body. When he hears something like a groan behind him, he turns around and sees what appears to be a drunk couple.
They stumble towards him, and then he feels something pulling at his boot. He looks back down to find the corpse grabbing at it, trying to bite into it. Obviously it's shocking for Leon, or anyone for that matter, to have something you could have sworn was dead trying to take a piece of flesh right out of you. He manages not to be bitten, and let's off several bullets from his gun as more and more of the zombies start to appear and wander towards him, their hunger the only driving factor to keep them moving. As Leon tries to figure out what the hell is going on, we are introduced to another new character...
Claire Redfield is the younger sister of Chris Redfield, one of the survivors of the original mansion night. She rides into Raccoon City on her motorcycle to check up on her brother because he hasn't contacted her for a little while like he usually does. She also notices that the town seems deserted, and stops in at a diner that she and Chris have eaten at in the past to see if anyone there had seen him recently. The place is pretty much quiet and there appears to be no one around. That is, until Claire steps around the corner of the counter. To her surprise, she sees a man crouching over a waitress, biting into her. The zombie apparently hears her behind him, and decided that he'd like a little desert.
The zombies start to surround and place, and Claire has to escape immediately. She opens the exit to leave just to have a man (Leon) point a gun at her head. She ducks down and he shoots the zombie that was right behind her. Together they make their way to the street, and find a cop car that happens to have the keys still in it. They buckle up, introducing themselves to each other, and Claire opens the glove compartment to find a handgun. She takes it as Leon starts driving, heading to the RPD station. They don't get very far, however, before a zombie that had been in the back seat the whole time pops out to try and bite them. Leon swerves and the zombie ends up going through the windshield and onto the hood of the car. They actually get stuck, and from behind them hear something. It's a big truck coming at them, seemingly out of control. Right before it comes in contact with the car, Leon and Claire are able to escape. After the impact, they split up and head to the police station.
They both arrive, though at different times so that they remain split up for most of their time in the station. Claire meets a twelve-year-old girl named Sherry Birkin, while Leon "teams up” with a woman by the name of Ada Wong. Now, Sherry is the daughter of two Umbrella scientists, William and Annette Birkin. William worked with Wesker at the Spencer mansion facility for years and became Umbrella's top scientist. He was developing a virus that was on a higher level than the T-Virus, called the G-Virus, but Umbrella wanted it before it was fully finished. As a result, some Umbrella soldiers were sent in to obtain said virus, but only one of them (Hunk) was able to escape. But he did in fact get a sample. Although in the process, after Birkin was shot and left for dead, he injected himself with the G-Virus and mutated into a huge monster, which is how the soldiers were killed.
Ada Wong has a slightly different story. Like the Umbrella soldiers, she was also sent in to steal a sample of the G-Virus. But not from that company. So basically, she's like a secret agent. Leon and her seem to have a hidden attraction to each other, but neither of them really show it. When they first meet up, she tells Leon that she is looking for a reporter, Ben Bertolucci, because he might be able to tell them about what's going on. Of course, she doesn't tell him her real motives. They find Ben in a holding cell but can't get any answers out him...however, he does tell them that they might be able to escape through the sewers, so that's where they go next. They end up having to split up, but do find each other again later. When walking through the halls of the labs, Ada is suddenly shot at. But before she gets hit, Leon dives in front of her, taking her with him, but getting shot in the left shoulder in the process. Leon will be fine, but Ada leaves him to chase after the woman, who she believes she knows. Oh, and I forgot to mention: Ben is killed by some type of parasite, a G-Virus creature, which embedded itself inside of him and ate its way out (it burst through his chest).
After Leon is able to focus, he decided to try to go and find wherever Ada went off to. He does so only because he hears gunshots. He heads towards them and discovers a huge alligator, obviously infected with the G-Virus. After Leon kills it, him and Ada meet back up. They find what seems like it could be an escape, but once inside, a monster slashes through one of the walls and hits Ada's shoulder, injuring her. What was it? Birkin.
He eventually finds out about Ada, but she is *supposedly* killed by Annette Birkin. Annette dies. A monster comes after Leon (William Birkin). Leon battles him more than once, each time in a different form. All while this is going on, Claire and Sherry are being stalked by a different creature, who Claire gives the nickname, “Mr. X”. Beforehand, Claire had run into the police chief, Brian Irons, who was later killed by Birkin. Sherry and Claire are split up at one point, and Sherry is infected with the G-Virus. Fortunately, Claire is able to get a cure for the virus and injects it into the girl. Claire kills Mr. X, and Leon kills Birkin with the help from a mysterious stranger who drops a rocket launcher down to him just in time. Eventually, the trio meet back up with each other, and they escape the city together. What happened to Raccoon you ask? The viruses leaked out and infected the entire city. Also, read the RE3 storyline for this to be fully finished.
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis -
This takes place 24 hours before and 24 hours after the events of Resident Evil 2. Jill Valentine, one of the survivors of the mansion incident, is trying to escape Raccoon and get to Europe where the other S.T.A.R.S. survivors are waiting for her. After wandering, she discovers Brad Vickers, the Alpha pilot, is still there. She first meets up with him in a bar, but he’s quick to run off, obviously frightened by something. Jill soon finds out why when she watches him die by the...tentacles of the Nemesis, who is now after Jill. Nemesis is an experiment from Umbrella (a division in France), sent to detect and eliminate all existing ex-S.T.A.R.S. team members. It was made from the NE-T-Virus, most likely a combination of the T-Virus and the Nemesis parasite. Jill meets up with a UBCS (Umbrella Bio-Hazard Counter-Measure Service) soldier, named Carlos Oliveira. He’s a mercenary who was sent in by Umbrella to help cover up the outbreak, but most of the people that were sent in didn’t know about what the company was really up to.
They help out each other, especially when Carlos has to find the cure for the virus inside of Nemesis, because it hurt Jill and the virus got into her system. He gets it at the hospital, and finds a UBCS squad leader there, named Nicholai Ginovaef. Nicholai is trying to get the cure for himself, to make himself valuable to Umbrella, killing everyone he has to in order get it. He is part of the Operation Watchdog, with several others who were sent in. They’re supposed to collect combat data and return it to Umbrella. After escaping near death as the hospital explodes, Carlos gets back to her and cures her. After more chaos, Jill kills the Nemesis after many situations involving him, using the classic line of "You want S.T.A.R.S.? I'll give you S.T.A.R.S.!" They escape in a helicopter as the city is nuked and explodes. There’s a couple different ways this ends…one is where Barry Burton saves the day by arriving in a helicopter and helping them escape. Also, in one ending Nicholai dies, and in the other he doesn’t. As far as we know as of now, Nicholai is still alive. There are also epilogue files you can unlock, one of which is of Ada Wong…and you find out that she survived. In Wesker’s Report, he explains that he saved her.
- Resident Evil Code: Veronica/X –
Claire Redfield was captured by Umbrella three months after the Raccoon City incident, because she infiltrated their Headquarters in Europe. The man that actually caught her was named Rodrigo Juan Raval, and she was sent to an isolated prison island, owned of course by Umbrella, called Rockfort. He let's her go when the island is attacked, and she soon after leaving her cell meets up with a guy named Steve Burnside. Steve's story: His father worked for Umbrella and stole information, selling it off to the highest bidder. But he was caught, and Steve's mother was killed, and him and his father were sent to the island.
They split up, because Steve thinks she'll just slow him down and he takes off. Claire follows him and ends up running into him again a couple of buildings away. Steve informs her (he had been looking on a computer in the room) that her brother, Chris, is being monitored by Umbrella. He jokingly suggests to her that she should send Chris the coordinates so he can come. She takes it seriously, but then Steve kind of gets pissed and says that you can't depend on people, that Chris wouldn't come, and then storms out of the room. Claire decided to go ahead and send an e-mail to Leon Kennedy, giving him the coordinates of the island.
They meet up again, however, after Claire finds the way he went and ends up in a type of mansion and saves his life. Steve and Claire eventually escape after encountering Alfred Ashford several times, who thinks he's two different people; him and his sister Alexia. The real Alexia is not around yet, but they are part of a family in which one of the Umbrella founders was in. The plane they escape onto goes into autopilot, and heads to Antarctica. They almost escape the place, but then the real Alexia awakes from stasis with a lot of power. Alexia made a virus 15 years ago called the T-Veronica Virus. She first experimented with this virus on their father, Alexander Ashford, which turns into a failure (he turned into Nosferatu because of it). So she revises it, and for it to take effect, must be frozen in stasis for 15 years before awaking. She takes down Steve and Claire's vehicle, and it gets lit on fire.
Chris arrives at the prison island, but learns from Wesker that Claire's not there and tells where she is. Yes, that's right, Albert Wesker is alive. Of course, it’s quite a shocking revelation for Chris, here. Chris flies himself to Antarctica, and eventually reunites with Claire, but she won't leave without Steve. But once she finds him, he changes in to a mutant thanks to Alexia Ashford, who injected him with the same virus she injected into her father. Steve comes back right before he slices into Claire's neck...and dies while saving her. Chris fights Alexia after detonating the self-destruct system, and is able to defeat her. This is where CV ends. Now in CVX, Wesker takes Claire hostage and Chris goes after them. They fight it out after Wesker says he's taken Steve's body because it has the T-Veronica Virus in it (actually he says T-Alexia Virus, although I don’t know why), and that he might even come back as Wesker did. Something splits them up though (Chris and Wesker), so Claire and Chris escape vowing to destroy Umbrella once and for all.
- Resident Evil Ø –
The S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team is sent in on July 23rd, 1998, to investigate some strange murders occurring recently in the city of Raccoon City. They have to set down, because of a technicality wrong with the helicopter. They split up, and Rebecca Chambers finds an abandoned train in the middle of Raccoon Forest. She meets up with Billy Coen, an ex-navy seal who has been convicted of 23 murders that he really did not commit.
They team up, and together they find some secrets that were not previously known in the other RE games. They find an Umbrella Training Facility, and an underground treatment plant, along with a church. And in them, creatures that could not be explained. The man in the white robe is revealed as... Dr. James Marcus himself! He has been controlling the leeches and wants revenge on Umbrella for something that happened so very long ago (his death that William Birkin and Albert Wesker were a part of). It is also revealed that this is the man who created the T-Virus, by combining the Progenitor Virus (something he made) and leech DNA.
The ending is of Billy and Rebecca parting and going their separate ways, pretending that Billy just become another zombie or was killed. They look down upon the old Spencer mansion, which is Rebecca's next destination. Rebecca steals his dog tag and puts it on herself. Billy heads off into the coming night (or day), as Rebecca starts down the hill into the darkening forest, toward where her fate takes her...
- Resident Evil 4 -
Six years have passed since the terrible incident in Raccoon City that left over 100,000 people without their lives. Leon Kennedy was one of the only known survivors, along with Claire Redfield, Sherry Birkin, Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliveira, Nicholai Ginovaef, and Hunk. After those events, Leon was approached by an unidentifiable man who claimed to work for the government and who also wanted to take over the protection of Sherry. That was the last Leon saw of her before Wesker gains possession of the young girl. Now, Leon is a government agent. The US government has effectively destroyed Umbrella by causing their stock to crash, which could be considered payback for making them drop a missile on their own city. Without enough money, the corporation was no longer able to run.
Leon is assigned to investigate the kidnapping of Ashley Graham, the new President's daughter. He is sent to a small region in Europe where the girl has apparently been sighted. Ingrid Hunnigan, who will be contacting him throughout his mission, is his link to the outer world. Once he gets there, however, things take a turn for the worse. The two men he arrives with go missing, and the village he enters is overrun with people who are hell-bent on killing him. He eventually finds Ashley locked in a church. When they begin to leave, Lord Osmund Saddler introduces himself—the leader of the people in the area and the religious cult, the Los Illuminados. He reveals that they've been implanted with the parasite, La Plaga, that he has used to take control of the people that Leon and Ashley come across while they're in the region (and later, the island). They escape the building and make their way to a new place—-a castle. The owner? Ramon Salazar, the eighth Castellan of the castle. He felt guilty about his ancestors taking away power from the Los Illuminados long ago, so he assisted in digging up the Las Plagas—the parasites that were buried underground hundreds of years ago. The villagers who helped dig up Las Plagas became infected with them, and began to act differently, and thus started what Leon stumbles upon.
There's another factor in all of this—Luis Sera. He was a researcher for Saddler but escaped when he found out the true purpose of the experiments they were conducting, which was to figure out a way to prevent the parasite from being removed from someone's body. He tries to help Ashley and Leon, but ultimately fails and is murdered by Saddler. Before he dies, however, a person from Leon's past pays him a visit: Ada Wong. Originally, she was thought to be dead, but Wesker helped out in that aspect by saving her. Leon apparently knows about her survival, as he even tells her that he knows she is working with Wesker. She has again been sent by him to collect a sample of the parasite. She leaves soon after she arrives. Not long after Leon reunites with Ashley after she's caught in a trap, she's taken again—this time to an island owned by Saddler. Leon has to battle against a mutated Salazar and comes out successful, getting rid of that inconvenience. Ada drives you there in a boat and takes off again. Leon meets up with Ashley again, but she isn't around for long—Saddler enables his control over the parasite inside of her and gets her to come with him.
Afterwards, Leon meets up with a man he used to work with. Krauser supposedly died two years ago, but this is clearly not the case. He has some type of virus in him, though it's unknown exactly what it is. Along with Ada, he's working for Wesker, although he's a bit different. He's been working—or more accurately, pretending to be working—for Saddler to gain his trust. Krauser is the insider from the government who kidnapped Ashley. He does know that Saddler doesn't trust him, but goes along with the plan anyway. He feels that Ada has a different agenda from his own, and from Wesker's, but calls her in to assist him regardless. She actually ends up breaking up a fight between he and Leon. But, that's not the end of Krauser. Leon meets back up with him and has to take him out for good, though it's not a simple task—because of the virus inside of him, Krauser can take a lot of damage and is very quick. Leon is up to the challenge, and then continues his search for Ashley after Krauser is dead. In the next area, Leon is contacted by a helicopter pilot—Mike—who is ready to provide plenty of cover for him after the first evacuation failed. Unfortunately, their bonding experience is short lived as Mike is killed by one of Saddler's followers.
Soon after, Leon comes across Ashley in a lab area, along with Saddler. Luckily, Ada is there to distract the cult leader long enough to allow the two of them to escape. Both Leon and Ashley are able to have the parasites removed from their body. As they're ready to leave the island for good, someone gets in their way—Saddler. Leon cuts down Ada when he sees her suspended in the air and tells her to stay out of the fight—so she does. Unsurprisingly, Saddler mutates into a monster, and Leon has to battle it. When the fight is almost over, Ada is the savior once again: she throws him a rocket launcher. He uses it, and it takes the creature out immediately. Afterwards, she holds him at gunpoint and makes him give her the sample of the parasite that he took. What does she really want it for? Wesker is trying to rebuild the Umbrella Corporation, and this will help them in doing so.
Ada also has the key to a jet-ski bike—which she gives to Leon after setting off the island's self-destruct system and flying off in her escape helicopter. He runs and gets Ashley and together they speed through the water-filled tunnels and out into the ocean. Ashley does decide to hit on Leon, but he turns her down, later flirting with Ingrid. They ride off into the sunrise on the jet-ski. Mission accomplished.
- Resident Evil 5 -
It's been ten years since Raccoon City's destruction. The Umbrella Corporation has fallen, but their legacy lives on. In addition to being sent to Africa on a BSAA mission, Chris Redfield has his own personal reason for going there: to find out the truth about his former partner, Jill Valentine. Two years prior, he and Jill had been searching for Spencer, Umbrella's creator, but found him dead with Wesker standing over his body. A fight occurred, and Jill saved Chris's life by tackling Wesker out of a window, and over a cliff. They searched for her body for months, but a body was never found.
The story starts out with the objective of finding and apprehending a known bioweapons smuggler, Ricardo Irving. Even with Umbrella gone, there's a black market for bioweapons, and that's what the BSAA (Bio-terrorism Assessment Alliance) was created for--to stop bioweapons threats. After arriving in the area, Chris is introduced to his partner for the mission, a West African native, Sheva Alomar. It's clear from the way Chris hesitantly calls her his "partner" that he's not willing to completely accept her as that, as he's still reeling of what happened to Jill. In addition to that, he's been questioning whether it's all worth fighting for.
The two of them are able to track Irving down, but he injects himself with the parasite and turns into a monster. As he's dying, he tells Chris that the answers he's looking for are in the cave ahead. At this point, we've also seen a few glimpses of a woman dressed in a cloak with a bird-type of mask on.
Tricell has basically taken over as the new Umbrella. They're a pharmaceutical company, though they have other divisions, and, like Umbrella for so long, the general public knows nothing about their illegal activities. They have samples of the T, G, T-Veronica, and Progenitor Viruses, along with Las Plagas.
Much of the game focuses on the past, and how the past is affecting the present. It all goes back to the Progenitor Virus, which was found in Africa, in a flower known as the Stairway to the Sun. Upon moving this flower out of the area, the virus was no longer inside it. To truly cultivate the virus, they had to use it in that specific area. That's why Umbrella built a research facility there. After it closed, Tricell moved in.
Spencer's ultimate goal had been to create a new breed of superior humans, and to rule over them as a god. For this, he used the Progenitor Virus research, Umbrella, and a special project: the Wesker Children. This involved monitoring children who were born with "superior" parents, and instilling his own values into them. The last phase was injecting them with a virus, in order to weed out any weak ones. Spencer tells Wesker that he's the only survivor, but a couple of files indicate that this is a lie. All of the children in this project had something inside them that would cause them anxiety and the need to seek out Spencer himself. Wesker feels this and after a long time of searching, is able to do so.
Upon learning of all of this, Wesker kills Spencer, severing any control the old man had over him. After this, Wesker chooses to follow Spencer's vision, and begins the process of creating his own special virus to infect the world, and become a god himself over the world. Jill Valentine plays an important role in this development. Inside her body is remnants of the T-Virus from when she was infected back in Raccoon City by the Nemesis. After she tackles him over the cliff, he heals her and then keeps her in stasis, until he notices that something inside her body is changing. What was inside her ended up making it possible for him to make the Uroboros Virus, the ultimate one he's been wanting.
At first, he had been planning on testing the virus on her, but after all of the developments, that would prove to be useless. Instead, a chemical substance was found that would give a host superhuman powers and make them able to be controlled. In order for the virus to be continuously administered, he implanted a device on her chest. Ever since then, he's been controlling her, and she's the mysterious cloaked figure.
Chris and Sheva discover this, and Chris is desperate to save her. After a fight, he's able to do so. Jill feels guilty about everything she's done, but tells them she's alright and that they have to go on without her and stop Wesker. It's at this point that Chris finally is able to fully accept Sheva as
his new partner. Excella Gionne, CEO of Tricell's African Branch, has been helping Wesker for a while and has some type of partnership with him. The two of them go after Wesker and, with Jill's helpfulness, inject him with a serum that will weaken him, and they sabotage his plan to launch missiles over the world, which would spread the Uroboros Virus. The plane they're on crashes, and they
end up in a volcano. In a last ditch effort, Wesker uses the Uroboros Virus on himself, and is seemingly able to control it. However, Chris and Sheva are able to defeat him.
Jill shows up in a helicopter and lowers a ladder that Chris and Sheva use to get onto the copter. Afterwards, they each hold a rocket launcher and fire a shot into Wesker, finally killing him. Chris, Jill, and Sheva escape in the helicopter, with Chris knowing that it is worth fighting for.
Written by ryodin.
The following is the accounts of the events leading to the destruction of Raccoon City, and describes what occurs before and during RE2 and RE3.
THE DEATH OF RACCOON CITY
Tuesday - September 22nd, 1998
It was on this date that the fate of Raccoon City was sealed. And it all started with the greed of a single scientist working deep beneath the streets of the city in a top-secret laboratory owned by Umbrella, Inc.
An Umbrella U.B.C.S. operative, nicknamed “Hunk,” leads a recovery team down into the Raccoon City sewers to reach Dr. William Birkin’s lab. He is sent by Christine Henri, the R&D Facility Head Manager of Umbrella's French Division, with instructions to retrieve the G-virus sample from Birkin's lab by any means necessary. After obtaining the sample, his orders are to personally deliver the contents to Loire Village in France. Word has leaked to Umbrella HQ of Birkin's plans to keep the discovery of the G-virus to himself, and the U.B.C.S. force has been dispatched to rectify the situation
Part of the team captures Annette, while the other half confronts the rebellious Dr. Birkin himself. After refusing to give up the samples, William Birkin is shot with multiple bullets to his body. Hunk snatches Birkin’s briefcase containing the T- and G-virus samples, and his team quickly exits. Free of her captors, Annette rushes to her dying husband’s side, then runs off to find medical supplies.
While she’s away, William reaches down and injects a massive sample of the as yet untested G-virus into his body. The virus works quickly and mutates the scientist into a huge, hulking monster. Birkin rises and stumbles through the sewers in hot pursuit of his attackers. He systematically hunts down each U.B.C.S. member and kills them all with vicious speed. Bullets appear to have no effect on his mutated form. During the scuffle, the case containing the samples is dropped, smashing open vials and spreading the contents of the T-virus all over the sewer floors. Rats quickly begin to spread the virus throughout the sewer system across the entire city.
Afraid for her family's safety, and knowing full well the devastating effects of the T-virus spreading through the sewers, Annette Birkin calls their daughter, Sherry, at home and tells the child that it is not safe to be alone.
She urges Sherry to make her way to the R.P.D. station in the center of town . . . where she will be safe.
Wednesday - September 23rd, 1998
One day after Hunk and his U.B.C.S. team botches Umbrella's efforts to recover the G-virus from Dr. William Birkin and spreading the T-virus across the sewers in the process, increasing signs of T-virus infection begin to spring up amongst the population of Raccoon City. A field reporter with the Raccoon City Times makes the gruesome discovery that the rumors of a "cannibal disease" moving swiftly throughout the city are indeed true. He witnesses with his own two eyes a single, deranged man savagely attack a group of people and tear their flesh apart like an animal. Hearing of similar, though isolated, incidents simultaneously occuring across the city, the reporter makes up his mind to gather more evidence before going public with the story.
Meanwhile, Brian Irons, the R.P.D.'s Chief of Police, is furious that Umbrella went back on its promise to keep his city safe. Having been in the mega-corporation's pockets for close to 5 years now, he no longer feels he can rely on the company after discovering the mayhem caused by William Birkin and Umbrella's commando team. Suspecting that the city will soon be overrun with zombies, and that he himself might already be infected, Chief Irons vows to bring down the whole city with him. After all the security he provided for Umbrella's secret experiments, turning a blind eye and misdirecting nosy media and his own S.T.A.R.S. members, the Chief feels betrayed and duped. He decides that if he has to die infected by the T-virus, he will ensure that everyone else is killed off, too.
Meanwhile, after cancelling their previous game due to illness, the Umbrella sewage plant worker, Thomas, easily beats the R.P.D. night watchman at a game of chess. The watchman observes that Thomas does not look well, and that the Umbrella worker never ceases talking about food . . . .
Thursday - September 24th, 1998
By evening of this day, "zombies" are now roaming the streets of Raccoon City in increasing numbers. Citizens who survive their encounters with these loose gangs of flesh-eating maniacs begin to seek shelter at the R.P.D. station. Trying to make sense of the flood of panicked people suddenly demanding answers, the modest sized police force begins patrolling the city vigorously.
Meanwhile, intent on carrying out his ominous plan, Chief Brian Irons starts sowing the seeds of confusion amongst his men. Promising to get help from law enforcement sources outside the city, Chief Irons instead tampers with and eventually severs all communication to the outside world from inside the precinct. He stands by as he sends his men onto the streets to meet certain doom, while counting on the confusion thus sown to keep the citizens from discovering the truth before its too late. He also ensures that all escape routes from the precinct are cut off as well, including denying access to the sewers in the basement levels.
And, while on patrol this day, R.P.D. Sgt. Marvin Branagh discovers the theft of two jewels from the clock face at the main gate of the municipal building near the center of town. Due to a shortage of available men, however, he suspends investigation into the theft for the time being . . .
Friday - September 25th, 1998
At the recommendation and urging of R.P.D. Chief Brian Irons, Mayor Michael Warren declares martial law in Raccoon City due to the rising "zombie" epidemic. All communication with the outside world is severed, and transportation into and out of the city is prohibited.
Meanwhile, more and more citizens seek shelter within the precinct walls. To make matters harder for the police force to defend the city, Chief Irons orders one of his men to relocate all the weapons in the arsenal to more scattered locations throughout the precinct under the pretense to prevent domestic terrorism. He then kills the man to ensure no one is able to access the locations.
And, realizing that his contact with other media outlets outside Raccoon City has been lost, the investigative reporter for the Raccoon City Times remains steadfast in his resolve to uncover the truth behind the "cannibal disease" outbreak that is ravaging the city. He becomes certain that not only has the disease not spread nationwide yet, but that its origins must be from within the city as well. He surmises that the cure for the disease therefore must reside somehwere in the city too, and seeks to discover it before he himself is infected or killed.
Saturday - September 26th, 1998
In the early pre-dawn hours on this day, the Umbrella employee from the sewage treatment plant, Thomas, stops by to visit the night watchman and to cancel their habitual chess game due to illness. The watchman tells Thomas to go back home and rest, and worries that his chess buddy is looking like the "walking dead." He realizes that he, too, is not feeling so well.
Later that morning, the R.P.D. station is unexpectedly attacked by a huge mob of zombies. Many officers die in attempts to hold off the undead, as well as many civilians who have taken shelter in the precinct. Chief Irons further hampers efforts inside the station to find weapons caches for use against the zombies, and also cuts electrical circuits at key locations. After the zombies are finally repelled away from the station long enough for the survivors to regroup, a plan is formed to set out en masse in order to rescue living citizens from off the streets and to contain the disaster that has suddenly befallen the city.
Meanwhile, a 42-year old restaurant owner who sought refuge in the precinct just before the attack develops symptoms of the T-virus and is shot dead within ten minutes. Upon examination of the body, it is discovered that he was carrying the two missing gems from the clock face at the municipal building. Sgt. Marvin Branagh considers the case closed, although he has no idea what the motive could have been.
Later this night and across town at the hospital, most of the doctors and staff are killed in a battle against zombie patients who had trickled in days before complaining of soreness and itchiness. While hiding out in his office awaiting the inevitable, the hospital's director comes to the realization that he has also been infected with what he's termed the "zombie disease."
Sunday - September 27th, 1998
In the pre-dawn, twilight hours of this new day -- just a few hours after the attack on the hospital -- all hell breaks loose on the streets of Raccoon City. The zombie masses have by now swelled to large hordes of ravenous, vicious, brain-dead creatures intent on killing every living thing in sight. The few survivors run terrified for their lives through the streets.
Reacting to the threat of exposure, Umbrella dispatches several U.B.C.S. teams by helicopter into the city in an attempt to contain the outbreak. Within three hours, however, most of the teams are decimated, with the remaining living commandos scattered and running for their lives.
Meanwhile, back at the R.P.D. station, officers rush out of the precinct to make a last concerted stand against the zombies, and are joined by SWAT teams to help turn the tide. Together, they work at barricading major streets and side-alleys with debris, metal fences, and police vehicles in an effort to stem the tide and divide the city into more manageable sectors to contain the diseased creatures. However, the pressing mob is too much for the police forces to handle and they quickly become overrun. Defeated, the last remaining survivors rush back to the precinct and barricade the doors and windows as best they can.
Later this afternoon, zombies break through the precinct’s west barricade and kill several more people. Twelve injured survivors are rushed into the evidence room as shelter against the creatures now roaming the halls inside the precinct. A “Licker,” one of several advanced T-virus specimen types now loose in the city, enters the station and kills three more victims.
Chief Irons, having decided not to leave the survivors in his precinct to the mercy of the zombie hordes, leaves his hiding place in the station and starts hunting down the living one by one for his own amusement. He lets the mayor's daughter escape in hopes of tracking her down and having his fun with her later, but brutally murders the others with wanton abandon. He later writes in his journal the extreme joy experienced over shooting one of his men in the back as he tried to escape, then watching the life slowly drain from behind the dying man's eyes. By nightfall, most of the survivors in the precinct are dead. The remaining four devise a plan to escape the precinct, and possibly the entire city, through the sewers. They are never heard from again.
Outside the station, Raccoon City is a nightmarish wasteland. The streets are teeming with ungodly creatures and unspeakable sights. The few surviving humans are picked off one by one and subsequently infected with the same T-virus that spawned the creatures. The U.S. military, apparently tipped off (anonymously) by Umbrella itself, starts the tedious and slow work of barricading the city from the outside, enforcing a quarantine. Any survivors are left to fend for themselves. Tens of thousands of citizens are already dead.
Holed up in her apartment and surveying the state of affairs from her window, Jill Valentine summons her resolve and decides to make a final bid for survival and escape the city. In dramatic fashion, she escapes the hordes of zombies surrounding her building and begins her quest . . .
Monday - September 28th, 1998
Jill Valentine, after barely escaping her apartment complex with her life, spends the morning of this new day in hell running through the alleyways of downtown Raccoon City armed only with her standard issue. Following the screams of helpless civilians and professional soldiers alike, she often arrives too late to be of much help, but in time to witness gruesome scenes of bloody consumption by gangs of zombies. After escaping numerous encounters with roving bands of the undead, Jill finally manages to reach the R.P.D. station, unaware of the horrors that have transpired there earlier. She encounters fellow S.T.A.R.S. member Brad Vickers before the entrance, but after a brief greeting and assessment of the situation, Brad is suddenly and viciously killed by a hideous hulk of a monster. The imposing creature, known as the Nemesis and sent by Umbrella, is intent on eliminating all S.T.A.R.S. members. Before Nemesis can vist on her the pain he just dealt to her comrade, Jill rushes into the station and barricades the double doors behind her. After a cursory search through R.P.D. headquarters, Jill discovers the building is devoid of any living humans. All the cops who made the building their last stand are dead.
After encountering the Nemesis again in the narrow halls of the precinct, Jill opts not to stick around R.P.D. HQ and quickly rushes out of the building, heading further uptown. She meets Carlos Oliviera, one of the few surviving members of the U.B.C.S. mercenary group who was cut off from the rest of his squad. The two team-up in hope of working together to find a way out of the nightmare.
Later that night, while investigating a possible helicopter extraction point, Jill runs into the Nemesis yet again and is infected with a weakened strain of the T-virus in the ensuing battle. Carlos manages to fight the creature off and carries Jill to a nearby chapel, where she will remain feverish and unconscious for the next two days.
Minutes before midnight, a truck driver making a pit stop at a gas station on his way through town is inexplicably attacked and bitten by the attendant. The driver knocks the guy over and hops back into his truck in heated anger. As he pulls out of the station clutching a rag over his wound, the driver wonders aloud why that "maniac" attacked him like that . . .
Tuesday - September 29th, 1998
Shortly after midnight on this new day, while Jill lies unconscious in the chapel uptown, Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy both arrive separately in Raccoon City - Claire by motorcycle; Leon by jeep. Claire had taken some time off from college to find out why her brother, Chris Redfield, had not been returning her phone calls. Leon, a new recruit to the Raccoon Police Dept., shows up from out of town for his first night of duty. After each running into bizarre, grotesque creatures, the two meet up for the first time and barely escape a mob of the undead in an abandoned police cruiser. After making each other's acquaintance, they are suddenly accosted by the now zombified truck driver as he mindlessly plows his rig through the streets and straight into the cruiser. Ditching the car and taking cover just in time, Leon and Claire are separated by a wall of flames. Having no other option, the two agree to make their separate ways through the city and to rendezvous at R.P.D. headquarters.
As Claire enters the precinct from one end, and Leon from the other, a helicopter drops one of six large canisters it’s transporting directly over Claire’s head. The canister smashes through the roof of the precinct and lands on the second floor, releasing a thawing and lethargic Tyrant. The Tyrant has been sent by Umbrella to retrieve Birkin’s G-virus sample. Claire runs into the hulking, albino killer and barely escapes with her life. The Tyrant, meanwhile, begins to systematically tear through the station room by room in search of the G-virus he can somehow sense is nearby.
Meanwhile, the remaining five Tyrant canisters are transported over to the disposal facility where Umbrella has learned that a U.S. Army special forces team has been dispatched by the government to obtain the G-virus. The agents enter into a fierce battle with the Tyrants, managing to kill all of the creatures only after a massive loss of life on their side. Their mission to find a viable sample of the G-virus, however, is a failure.
Back at the R.P.D. station, Claire and Leon reunite inside the S.T.A.R.S. office, and come to the realization that Chris
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