RESIDENT EVIL 5
GENRE: HORROR, THIRD PERSON SHOOTER
Resident Evil 5, known in Japan
as Biohazard 5, is a third person shooter video game developed and published by
Capcom. The game, the seventh installment in the Resident Evil series, was
released on March 5, 2009 in Japan and on March 13, 2009 in North America and
Europe for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and September 2009 for Microsoft
Windows.
The plot of Resident Evil 5
revolves around Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar's investigation of a terrorist
threat in Kijuju, a fictional town in Africa. Chris soon finds he has to
confront his past in the shape of old enemy Albert Wesker and former partner
Jill Valentine, who had been thought dead.
The game was announced in 2005,
the same year as its predecessor Resident Evil 4 was released, with several
staff members from that game and the original Resident Evil being involved.
Employed in the game for the first time was the use of motion capture for the
cutscenes, making the characters' movements more realistic. Its gameplay was
kept similar to the previous installment, though the game's producer Jun
Takeuchi said that some thematics from the original game were used.
Resident Evil 5 was released on
all its platforms in 2009, eventually outselling its predecessor and becoming
the best-selling single game of the franchise. On the whole, critical reception
was positive, despite allegations of racist attitudes in the trailer shown at
the 2007 E3 event.
SYNOPSIS:
Five years after the events of
Resident Evil 4, Chris Redfield, a former STARS member and now part of the
Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA), is dispatched to Kijuju,
Africa to work with Sheva Alomar to apprehend Ricardo Irving before he can sell
a bio-organic weapon (BOW) on the black market. Upon arriving, they discover
the locals have been converted by parasites into Majini, and that the members
of the BSAA's Alpha team have been killed. Chris and Sheva are rescued by
BSAA's Delta team, whose membership includes Sheva's mentor Josh Stone. In the
data provided by Josh, Chris sees a photograph of Jill Valentine, his old
partner, presumed dead after a confrontation with Albert Wesker. Chris, Sheva,
and Delta team close in on Irving, but he manages to escape with the help of a
hooded figure, leaving behind documents that lead Chris and Sheva to oil fields
in the marshlands where Irving's deal is to occur. They soon discover this was
a diversion created by Irving to allow the deal to take place. Chris and Sheva
attempt to regroup with Delta team, but at the rendezvous, find the team
slaughtered by a BOW; Sheva cannot find Josh among the bodies. Chris refuses to
report to headquarters, revealing his determination to learn if Jill is still
alive.
Continuing through the marshlands,
they find Josh injured but safe, and with his help track down Irving's boat.
Irving injects himself with a variant of the parasite, Las Plagas, and mutates
into a colossal octopus-like beast. Chris and Sheva defeat him, and with his
dying words, directs the pair to a nearby cave to learn more. The cave, home of
the Ndipaya tribe, is the source of the flower used to create the Progenitor
virus, which led to the creation of the T- and G-viruses, and has now been used
to form a new, incredibly powerful strain called Uroboros. Chris and Sheva find
evidence that Tricell, the company funding the BSAA, had taken over a former
Umbrella underground laboratory and continued Umbrella's research. In the
facility are thousands of capsules holding human test subjects. Chris discovers
one of the capsules belongs to Jill, but when they search it, they find the
capsule empty. As they leave, they discover Tricell CEO, Excella Gionne has
been plotting with Wesker to unleash a number of missiles with the Uroboros virus
across the globe (it is eventually revealed that Wesker hopes to sort out a
chosen few from the chaos of infection and rule over them, creating his own new
breed of humanity). Chris and Sheva pursue Excella, but are stopped by Wesker
and the hooded figure, later revealed to be Jill, enslaved by a mind-control
device on her chest. Excella and Wesker escape to a Tricell oil tanker while
Chris and Sheva fight Jill, eventually subduing her and removing the device
from her chest. After a brief reunion, Jill orders Chris to follow Wesker.
As Chris and Sheva make their way
aboard the tanker, they come across Excella, who escapes, but drops a case of
syringes. Sheva holds on to a number of them. When Chris and Sheva arrive on
the main deck of the tanker, Wesker, through the tanker's intercom, reveals he
has betrayed and infected Excella with Uroboros. She mutates into a giant
monster which Chris and Sheva eventually defeat. Jill radios in and informs
Chris and Sheva that Wesker must regularly take precisely measured doses of a
virus to maintain his superhuman strength and speed; a larger or smaller dose
would act as poison for him. Sheva then realizes the syringes she recovered
from Excella are doses of that drug. Chris and Sheva follow Wesker to a bomber
aboard the tanker loaded with missiles containing the Uroboros virus.
Eventually, the two are able to subdue Wesker long enough to inject him with
additional doses. Wesker attempts to escape on the bomber, but is followed by
Chris and Sheva who disable the bomber, causing it to crash land in a volcano.
An enraged Wesker exposes himself to Uroboros, and pursues Chris and Sheva
through the volcano. Chris and Sheva fight and weaken Wesker to the point where
he falls into the lava. They are then rescued by a helicopter piloted by Jill
and Josh. In his dying breaths, Wesker attempts to drag the helicopter into the
volcano, but Chris and Sheva kill him with rocket-propelled grenades, before he
is able to do so. In the final cutscene of the game, Chris ponders whether it
is truly worth fighting. He looks at Sheva and Jill and decides that it is
worth it in order to live in a world without fear.
Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Windows XP
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0
GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Memory: 1 Gb
Hard Drive: 8 Gb free
Video Memory: 256 Mb
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6800 /
ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
Recommended System Requirements:
OS: Windows Vista/7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad @
2.8 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 920 @ 2.8 GHz
Memory: 2 Gb
Hard Drive: 8 Gb free
Video Memory: 512 Mb
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 9800 /
ATI Radeon HD 4800
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 10
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
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