Resident Evil

Resident Evil ( Biohazard バイオハザード in Japan) is a Série of video game of adventure, action and reflection of the type Survival horror . Pioneer of the kind on console (the true pioneer of the kind being Alone in the dark developed by Infogramme this series of plays PC being based on the writings of the novelist Howard Philips Lovecraft), he makes his beginnings on Playstation in 1996 then, victim of his success, he will grant many continuations on the majority of the consoles. He will become even one of rare the play " phare" industry of the video game, thus offering the luxury to be coveted by Nintendo for franchise agreements. The cinema world will make of them 3 films with for heroin Milla Jovovich. Nowadays, exclusiveness is not any more and the new version is under development on PS3 and XBOX 360. The play puts in scene in the majority of the cases of the agents of S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Rescue Service) against the pharmaceutical multinational Umbrella Corporation. This play is published by the Japanese company Capcom.

Synopsis

Raccoon City , small and peaceful city of the United States whose economic stability rests only on the pharmaceutical multinational Umbrella Corporation , has seen the scene for several months of strange disappearances. Tens of people are removed and are never found, the efforts of the police force remain vain however witnesses affirm to have seen groups of ten people, some affirm that the victims would have been devoured. But of the more problematic events are not long in declaring itself: inhabitants of the city transform themselves into what one could describe as " zombies" famished cannibals of human flesh . Whereas more and more of people are touched by this strange evil, the government places the city under martial and firm law its doors, the insulator completely of the rest of the world…

Zombies

A few kilometres from Raccoon City exists a manor where scientists of the Umbrella Corporation work. They make tests there to create a biological process which would make the men more resistant to the balls, more intelligent and more enduring like more resistant to the marks of old age. Into light, Umbrella wants to transform the men into Surhomme S. research continue during several months, until the day when an accident occurs: a flask of the Virus T breaks while falling by ground and the product is spread in the air. All the inhabitants of the manor are infected and little by little undergo the consequences of this exposure to the unfinished product while becoming cannibals. The team of S.T.A.R.S. of Raccoon City arrives in recognition by helicopter, but they face mad dogs, and the pilot gives up them at the fine bottom of the forest contiguous to the manor.

List plays composing the series

List of all the currently available episodes, all confused platforms:

In preparation

Film S

2002 : Resident Evil of Paul W.S. Anderson and Chris Howes with Milla Jovovich, Eric Mabius and Michelle Rodriguez.
2004 : Resident Evil: Apocalypse of Alexander Witt with Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Oded Fehr.
2007 : Resident Evil: Extinction of Russell Mulcahy with Milla Jovovich and Oded Fehr. (official exit on September 21st, 2007 for the USA and on October 3rd, 2007 for France and Belgium)
2008: Biohazard: Degeneration or out of Japan Resident Evil: Degeneration . Cartoon film in 3D. Unknown exit into the room.

Romance

Thomas Day wrote news drawn from the universe of the video game. S.D. Perry wrote the novels of the video game.

Published by black Fleuve in the collection Reside Evil of 2002 to 2005

#1 - Conspiracy of Umbrella (2002), by S.D. Perry, Umbrella Conspiracy (1998)
#2 - the Split of Caliban (2002), by S.D. Perry, Caliban Cove (1998)
#3 - the City of dead (2002), by S.D. Perry, City off the Dead (1999)
#4 - With the doors of the hell (2003), by S.D. Perry, Underwood (1999)
#5 - Nemesis (2003), by S.D. Perry, Nemesis (2000)
#6 - Code Veronica (2003), by S.D. Perry, Code: Veronica (2001)
#7 - Zero Hour (2004), by S.D. Perry, Zero Hour (2004)
#8 - Genesis (2005), by Keith R.A Decandido, Genesis (2004)

Novelisations

#1 - Resident Evil (2002), by Thomas Day, published by Denoël in the collection the Moons of Ink #31
#2 - Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), by Keith R.A. Decandido, published by black River in the collection Cinema
#3 - Resident Evil: Extinction (September 2007), by Keith R.A. Decandido, published by black River in the collection Cinema

Inspirations

The series Resident Evil is inspired by a play known under the name of Sweet Home based on film of Japanese horror Suito homu (スイトホム). Sweet Home was published by Capcom in the years 1980 only with the Japan for the console Famicom. Many elements one re-used like the arrangement of the manor, the phases of resolutions of Headache, and even the screen of loading. Shinji Mikami, person in charge of much of title of Evil Resident, confirms these facts besides.

The majority of the plays of the series are presented with a prospect objectifies (the controlled misadventure appears on the screen), showing the character generally by using a sight in light diving. That is not without pointing out the video game Alone in the Dark left in 1992, often quoted like the first video game of the kind Survival horror .

The general atmosphere points out the film the Night of death-alive the, (of george romero) left in 1969, which shares some common points of intrigue, as a city where most of the inhabitants awakes transformed into Zombi are.

See too

Characters of Resident Evil
Creatures of Resident Evil
Chronology of Resident Evil

External bonds

the Japanese official site
the English official site

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