[Review] Resident Evil

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Resident Evil is a series of video games and a media franchise, including Manga, novels, movies and collectibles such as action figures, strategy guides and other publications.1 Developed by Capcom and created by Shinji Mikami the majority, By 2014, 61 million copies of video games have been sold worldwide. As in the main videogame saga, as in other media, the plot revolves around the same conflict: the bioterrorist threat. A dangerous virus has spread by mistake or intentionally by the Umbrella Corporation, this by infecting humans, transforms them into amorphous beings and monsters.

History

The story begins in the Arklay Mountains, on the outskirts of the fictional town of Raccoon City, when a wave of strange murders begins to occur near the city. Some hikers are found dead at nearby points, partially devoured, although it is not known what being caused the atrocities. To prevent panic from spreading through the city, the police department decides to send the S.T.A.R.S., a division of the best police officers, specially trained in rescue and survival work, to thoroughly investigate the case. This is how the Bravo team is sent to investigate the strange events in the Arklay Mountains. Then, contact with this team is lost and it is when a second team (the Alpha team) commanded by Albert Wesker is assigned the mission of continuing the investigation, as well as finding the whereabouts of the Bravo team.

Most deliveries begin during or after the initial large destructive surge. In this situation the protagonists, usually Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield, (and some more), must survive and find a way to escape while facing zombies and monsters not only born from contact with the dead, but also from others who have escaped from the Umbrella Corporation biological weapons development laboratories created on purpose (such as the so-called Tyrant) and an endless number of biological weapons that the protagonists must overcome in order to escape. The context under which the story unfolds is only glimpsed as the game progresses; The different characters and places the player visits provide clues as to what happened to people and what they should do.

Playability

The gameplay of video games is different in each title, each video game has at least a small change in terms of gameplay.
Classic gameplay
The first games had a camera angle with fixed 3D planes that helped cause fear and uncertainty, except in the loading times between rooms in which the game simulated a first-person view, clear examples of this are the 3 first games: RE1, RE2, and RE3, Code Veronica or the Outbreak saga: 1 and 2 and the Resident Evil Zero. This was changing according to time.

Main characters

Chris, Jill and Wesker belonged to the S.T.A.R.S., an elite division of the police forces which mobilizes against threats to citizenship. While Umbrella sends mercenaries to kill the remaining survivors of the incidents, such is the case of Hunk, Sergeant Nicholai, Krauser and Ada (the last two sent by Wesker) within many others. The president sends a separate team to rescue the survivors, who end up facing the mentioned mercenaries.

    Chris Redfield: Star of the first Resident Evil, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, part of the Resident Evil: Revelations, Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 6, is also one of the main protagonists in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and Resident Evil 7, and appears in the movie Resident Evil: Vendetta. Chris Redfield began his military career in the United States Air Forces then joined the S.T.A.R.S. He is now a former member of that unit, currently founder and member of the BSAA. His greatest enemy was Albert Wesker. Possessing a service sheet full of praise and disciplinary action alike, his superiors describe Chris as "uncompromising," "endowed with unwavering dedication" and possessing "a high level of adaptation."

    Jill Valentine: Star of the first Resident Evil, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, part of the Resident Evil 5 together with Chris and in Resident Evil: Revelations. It belonged to the same unit S.T.A.R.S. and subdivision than him. He currently works for the BSAA.

    Leon S. Kennedy: Resident Evil 2 protagonist, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles and Resident Evil 6. He also appears in the movie Resident Evil Degeneration, Resident Evil: Damnation and Resident Evil: Vendetta. Former member of the Raccoon Police Department; After living the events of the catastrophe of this city, He currently works for the Government of the United States, begins an enmity with Umbrella and pursues it as a personal objective. His biggest enemy is Jack Krauser, however, he dies in Resident Evil 4 when Leon defeats him (it should be noted that it was not Leon but, in fact, it was Ada who kills Krauser, this is understood with the Resident Evil 4 minigame, Separate Ways).

    Claire Redfield: Protagonist of the second video game of the main saga, along with Leon, Resident Evil Code: Veronica, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, and Resident Evil: Revelations 2, also appears in the movie Resident Evil Degeneration and the manga Resident Evil: Heavenly Island Ex-Student, She is Chris's sister and was in Raccoon City trying to find him. She is a survivor just like Leon and they mutually survive. Three months later, he travels to Europe to reunite with his brother without success: They capture a team of Umbrella and take her to Rockford Island, there she manages to escape and meet with Chris then joins a non-governmental organization called TerraSave.

    Albert Wesker: He was the villain par excellence of the saga. First Resident Evil antagonist, Resident Evil Code Veronica along with Alexia Ashford, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil 5, where he dies definitively. It also appears in Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil Zero and Resident Evil 4, the latter through separate ways. Wesker has been considered presumptuous since young; cautious, mani[CENSORED]tive and ingenious to evade and solve their problems with the various companies that have given him certain death conflicts (Corporación Umbrella, S.T.A.R.S., HCF). It was revealed that his goal was to create a superior human race by gathering different viruses. He is first introduced as the captain of the Alfa de los S.T.A.R.S. After entering Spencer Mansion with the rest of them, he disappears to investigate. Then, it appears gradually to communicate with the protagonists - among them Chris - and give them instructions. At the end of the first video game, betray the S.T.A.R.S. survivors and later is crossed by a Tyrant (which he released himself) and is presumed dead, but survives since he had injected an experimental virus that William Birkin (Umbrella scientist, husband of Anette Birkin, father of Sherry Birkin and main enemy of the second installment) had provided. Finally, he dies on an active volcano in Resident Evil 5, thanks to Chris and Sheva. He has a son, Jake Muller who appears in Resident Evil 6 and a sister, Alex Wesker who appears in Resident Evil: Revelations 2.