Resident Evil - Plots and Questions
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Alzrius
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AmbushBug said:
Actually, while you have the movies right (the Resident Evil movie, and the upcoming sequel Resident Evil 2: Nemesis, which are in an alternate continuity from the games), you've got some of the game timeline stuff pretty out of order for how it goes. The way it works is like this:
Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil 1
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil Gaiden
Resident Evil Survivor
Resident Evil Code: Veronica
Resident Evil 4
Note 0: "Resident Evil" is known as "Biohazard" in Japan. The name was changed when it came over here to avoid complications with the band Biohazard.
Note 1: From my understanding, Resident Evil 3 begins several days before Resident Evil 2. However, Resident Evil 2 takes place all in one night, whereas Resident Evil 3 takes a few days (more specifically, the two days Jill spends recovering from the T-Virus thanks to Carlos finding the vaccine is almost certainly when Leon and Claire are having their survival adventure). Thus, despite beginning before 2, 3's ending takes place after the end of 2, making putting the titles in a timeline somewhat tricky.
Note 2: 0 takes place on 7/23/98. We know that from the date and time given in the introduction. Likewise, 1 begins the next day, since Joseph's headset-camera has the date as 7/24/98 in it's display. The outbreak at the mansion you go through in 1 occured weeks prior to this, the backstory in 0 & 1 tell us that, but the train outbreak happens on 7/23, and given that Birkin and Wesker are in the other mansion, it most likely is taken over by the T-Virus monsters the same day, around the same time as Rebecca and Billy arrive.
Note 3: As far as I know, there is no hard-and-fast rule about when Gaiden occurs, but we can put it in place with some logistics. We know it has to occur after 2 & 3, since both Leon and Barry are there. Likewise, we know from quotes from Capcom people that 4, starring Leon, takes place, at most, a week after CV. Thus, putting it before CV seems to fit the most. We know that Survivor happens in November 1998, and Code: Veronica happens in December 1998, but beyond the fact that the main character of Survivor is a friend of Leon Kennedy, and that it it takes place two months after 2 & 3, we don't have any solid way to put it before or after Gaiden, so I listed Gaiden as happening before Survivor since we learn in Gaiden that Leon has joined an anti-Umbrella group with some of the other survivors, and in Survivor the main character recalls that he was sent by Leon to check on Umbrella activity on Sheena Island. Note that this isn't definitive because Gaiden doesn't say when Leon joined that anti-Umbrella group, just that he did.
Note 4: Resident Evil 4 has yet to be released, but quotes from Capcom members tell us it takes place mere days after Code Veronica.
Note 5: Resident Evil Survivor, aka Biohazard: Gun Survivor is indeed part of the RE plotline (we know because RE0 mentions the location of RES, Sheena Island, in its opening), but so far it's the only one that is. Gun Survivor 2: Resident Evil Code: Veronica was pretty much the same game as the non-first-person shooter Code: Veronica (and was never released in America), so it doesn't really deserve mentioning, especially considering that some aspects of CV are left out of the Gun Survivor version. Gun Survivor 3: Dino Crisis doesn't take place in the Resident Evil series at all, and was released in America under the name Dino Stalkers. However, Gun Survivor 4: Biohazard: Heroes Never Die (recently released in Japan, and to be released in America June 2003 under the name Resident Evil: Dead Aim) will be part of the Resident Evil storyline again, and sounds like the plot will be original. Only time will tell if and how it fits into the series. The same can be said ("only time will tell") for Resident Evil Online.
The six Resident Evil novels (with, its presumed, more on the way) from Pocket Books are written by Stephani Danelle Perry (S. D. Perry). They aren't "official" since they change things from how they happen in the game, but they are still mostly true to the games, and are incredible reads. Two of them, Caliban Cove and Underworld are original, not being based on games. The novels, listed in order of release (which is how they probably should be read, despite not being in chronological order thanks to Nemesis) is:
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy
Resident Evil: Caliban Cove
Resident Evil: City of the Dead
Resident Evil: Underworld
Resident Evil: Nemesis
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Several Resident Evil comics have also been released thus far. The first one was the five-issue Resident Evil: The Official Comic Book Magazine by Wildstorm Press. These have since been published together in a single trade paperback titled Resident Evil: Collection One, which is currently out of print. This series is a group of single stories that seem to have been published after Resident Evil 2, and many are quite invalidated by later games. Most of them also come across as quite hokey in design, such as the zoo security guard who has to kill all the infected animals, and so straps on several guns (why a zoo security guard had that many guns is conveniently ignored) while saying "For this mission, I'll need maximum ammo!" or the Rebecca and Barry story where they hunt a werewolf! (And is the only supernatural element ever to appear in anything Resident Evil so far.)
Resident Evil: Fire and Ice was a four-issue comic mini-series also published by Wildstorm Press. These have not yet been grouped into a single trade paperback. This single story revolves around an anti-Umbrella group trying to stop a mad scientist from synthesizing a new type of virus: the X Virus!
A few other promotional and foreign Resident Evil comics also exist, but finding them is very difficult.
Not quite. Resident Evil Gaiden was released domestically not quite a year ago, for the Game Boy Color. The gameplay style is a top-down view, with combat taking place in a first-person viewpoint; no part of the game is a side-scroller. It takes place on the cruise ship Starlight. In the game, you play as Barry Burton, Leon S. Kennedy, and new character Lucia.
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Alzrius
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AmbushBug said:
Most of the sites I checked confirmed the U.S. release date as being around June 3-5th 2002. Here are some links that confirm that:
http://www.gamespot.com/gbc/adventure/residentevilgaiden/index.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/Products/GBC/residentevil_gaiden/
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/22027.asp
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/g/ResidentEvilGaiden-707663/overview.php
If you got yours earlier, it may have been from the release over in U.K. (Britain), and possibly other countries in Europe on December 14, 2001. Since Game Boy games are universal, a European copy would have played on an American system just fine, with no language barrier either since they speak and write English there (in the U.K. that is). So saying "around a year ago" isn't too incorrect...though its more like nine months ago...I'll change that above.
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chatdemon
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Angelsboi said:
You might want to download this file:
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Files
It's a d20 conversion of RE. Lots of monsters, a few feats, some new professions, and a handful of plot hook type story ideas. I'm not a huge fan of RE myself, but this seems to be a pretty solid document, and I've used some of it in my d20M game, though I think it's worth mentioning that it's written for d20 CoC. I didn't have any trouble converting it though.
[edit] The link might help, eh?
http://home1.stofanet.dk/arcadia/downloads/Resident Evil_TUF.zip
3.16 meg zip archive of a pdf document
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