RESIDENT EVIL 0
Description :
Resident Evil Zero is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom. It is the fifth major installment in the Resident Evil series and was originally released for the GameCube in 2002. It is a prequel to Resident Evil (1996) and its remake (2002), covering the ordeals experienced in the Arklay Mountains by special police force unit, the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team. The story follows officer Rebecca Chambers and convicted criminal Billy Coen as they explore an abandoned training facility for employees of the pharmaceutical company Umbrella. The gameplay is similar to other Resident Evil games, but includes a unique "partner zapping" system. The player controls both Rebecca and Billy, switching control between them to solve puzzles and use their unique abilities.
Development for Resident Evil Zero began for the Nintendo 64 in 1998. The partner system was created to take advantage of the short load times possible with the capabilities of the Nintendo 64 Game Pak. The cartridge format also provided limitations, as the storage capacity was significantly less than that of a CD-ROM. The team had to approach the design differently from previous series entries to conserve storage space. Resident Evil Zero was designed to be more difficult than previous Resident Evil games. Inspired by Sweet Home (1989), the team removed the item storage boxes present in earlier games and introduced a new item-dropping feature. Development slowed when the team encountered memory storage problems, and so production was moved to the newly announced GameCube. The game had to be rebuilt, with only the concept and story carried over.
Resident Evil Zero received generally positive reviews. Critics praised the graphics and audio for building a haunting atmosphere. Opinions on the new partner and item systems were mixed. Some found the changes were an improvement and added new layers of strategy; others believed the changes were cumbersome or non-innovative. The controls were panned as outdated and Capcom was criticized for not evolving the series' tank controls. The game was ported to the Wii in 2008, and a high-definition remaster was released in January 2016. These re-releases received mixed reviews due to lack of improvements made to the original. Resident Evil Zero was commercially successful, having sold over 4 million copies across all platforms.
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Story :
1998 RACCOON CITY :
Bizarre murder cases have recently started in raccoon and the people
of the good city are terrified to get out of their homes now, families
who mostly lived on the outskirts of the town were attacked by a group
of about 10 people, victims were eaten, thats the best way to describe it.
JULY :
Raccoon city police department chief Brian Irons who has been trying to
avoid this topic was forced to answer to the press when the murder cases
increased suddenly and it was decided that the STARS would be sent in to
the rumored hide out of these murderers and they would go and investigate.
STARS captain Albert Wesker decided to send in the BRAVO team first.
23 JULY :
In the forests outside of raccoon city on a railway track a train is
speeding towards its destination, inside the happy people are sitting
care free, they are enjoying their train rides chatting with each
other and eating their meals. But unknown to them a spectator is
watching them from a mountain top. Suddenly the train is attacked
by a swarm of large leeches, these leeches are larger then normal
in size and they kill the passengers of the train immediately. They
had no chance to escape this disaster.
A few hours later the STARS BRAVO team comes in their chopper to
investigate the hideout of the murderers, but they have no idea
about the train incident. The helicopter is on route when suddenly
its engine's burst and the helicopter is forced to crash land in
the forest. No one is injured during this landing and the BRAVO
team head out in the forest leaving the chopper pilot inside.
Pretty soon they come across a turned over military police vehicle
with the bodies of military people, their faces horribly expressed
the fate they underwent. Before Captain Enrico can completely examine
the jeep, Rebecca chambers, the new recruit of the BRAVO's finds the
report sheet of the military personals order sheet. They had the order
to transport a convict Billy Coen. But this coen fellow is no where
to be found. The BRAVO's assume that billy killed those MP's and ran
off in the forest.
Enrico asks his team to be careful cause there enemy is armed and
dangerous, then he asks the team to speed out in the forest, rebecca
goes in her own direction and soon she comes across a large train
in the middle of the forest, she is a bit surprised to see it but
decides to check it out anyways. She goes for the train and it starts
raining as she enters the train with her gun ready at all times.
After entering the train she is radio'd by enrico and he tells her
more about the convict on the loose, becky finds it eerily strange
that the train is completely abandoned.. or is it ?
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To make the long story short RE:0 is becky's adventure and in this
game we find out about the real creator of the T virus, rebecca
must uncover the secrets of umbrella with the help of billy coen
she must ally with the convict to survive the night and make
it out alive. During the course of this game we discover about the
alliance between Albert wesker and William birkin and we find out
they were the one's who marcus is after.
Characters :
REBECCA CHAMBERS :
Age : 18
Blood type : AB
Height : 5ft 2in
Weight : 93 lbs.
Rebecca Chambers- Youngest Member of the S.T.A.R.S Brovo team, where
she is the residing field medic. She is only 18 people,,, She is a
value member of the Bravo team but she lacks the physical strength
and the stamina of most of the member of the team. She is a very
intelligent women despite these weaknesses and has proven herself to
most of the Resident Evil gamers in the world as Chris's side kick
in the original Resident Evil.
She is also known take control of a situation without it letting it
take control of her. Physically weak and cannot take many hits. But
her skill with first aid makes her invaluable. She is the only one
who can mix herbs and chemicals in the BRAVO team.
Rebecca has just been transferred to the STARS BRAVO team where
she is acting as the only medic in the team, she knows herbs as well
as the other members know their guns and she can cure a life faster
then they could kill one. It hasn't been long since she her career
started and she's already taken in the team for a serious operation.
The BRAVO team respects rebecca because she is an equal member of
their team and they dont treat her like a little child because they
know that this girl is a whole dynamite in the package.
During the course of the incident rebecca had to team up with an
ex marine billy coen to survive the horror, she successfully does
that and reached the spencer estate safe, but upon reaching the spencer
estate when chris redfield meets her she seems to be more scared then
before, the probable reason for this is that after entering the
spencer estate she discovered that most of her team mates are dead which
made her scared, but when she meets chris she gets back to her action
side and helps out chris in many places.
During her first ever mission rebecca chambers experienced more action
then old war veterans experience in their whole life, surprisingly she
took the whole undead affair quiet well for a teen ager. Let see what
her future has to offer.
## The youngest member of the group, Rebecca has been recruited for her
knowledge of field medicine and First Aid. She is nervous around other
members, both because of her age and due to her lack of experience.
Rebecca is eager to please and will take on any task assigned to her
without hesitation. ##
BILLY COEN :
Age : 26
Blood Type : A
Heigh : 5ft 9in
Weight : 163 lbs
Not much is known about Billy, except that he is a former second
lieutenant for the marines who receives capital punishment for the
mass murder of 23 people. There is a long cut scene in the middle of
the game where Billy explains what really did happen about that..
The paddy wagon that was transporting him to the prison is attacked.
Chaos ensues and taking advantage of the unguarded moment, Billy escapes
to the train. This is where he meets up with Rebecca and the two team
up to try and survive the nightmare together. Oh yeah he also has this
really keel tatto going down his right arm, most speculate that it's
the source of his power... Strong and able to take alot of damage. (
(It to be that tattoo)) Billy can also move things that Rebecca
cannot. Billy weak point? He cannot mix herbs. When you are playing
Keep billy as mostly your off hand character because then you can
keep a better eye on the weaker Rebecca. Plus he's almost unstoppable
with a gun in hand. And rumor is he can fit a grenade launcher in
his pants... kidding .
Billy coen is just an innocent young man who was robbed off his
freedom when he was wrongly accused of murdering all those people.
Billy even tried to stop his commander from killing them, but maybe
that is the reason why he was blamed for the killings. Billy is a
strong man and he can do most of the things becky is unable to do
in the course of the game, and since he is also taller then becky
he can also reach higher places that becky is unable too.
Billy can handle any sort of weapon with more accuracy then rebecca
can and he has a tendency to kill the enemies more quicker then
becky can with any gun in hand. Just keep the shotgun reserved
for billy and he'll be happy for the rest of the game. Billy
has only one disadvantage that he is unable to do much of the
herbs, so its a good game strategy to keep all the ammo in billy's
inventory and keep the herbs and any other key's and stuff in becky's
inventory.
DOCTOR JAMES MARCUS :
Age : ???
Blood type : ???
Height : ???
Weight : ???
Doctor James Marcus is the man who was the original creator of the
T virus, and he also discovered the mother virus, but he wasnt
so reluctant to hand his research over to umbrella and finally
umbrella assassinated him and william birkin vowed to take over
his research. But James marcus didnt actually die, he was saved
by his own created queen leech, and now he has the power of control
over the mutated leeches, and he can also change his appearance at
will. We see his 2 forms in the course of the game.
Before James died he was incharge of the other umbrella owned mansion
in the raccoon forest, he was also the man incharge of the umbrella
training facility in which he used to test the virus's on the test
subjects.
Now that marcus is alive and well he is out to take his revenge on
all those who tried to kill him, the first of those being wesker
and birkin. He is the one who spills the T virus in the raccoon
forest area and the train and it is because of him that the whole
mansion incident occors. Marcus watches the progress of rebecca
and billy throughout the game and he only gets madder and madder
at them, he tries many ways to stop them but their determination
pushes them on.
Near the end of the game marcus decides that its time to face
his enemies one on one, will marcus succeed in his plans or will
rebecca and billy be able to do something about him ?.
ALBERT WESKER :
Age : 30
Blood type : O
Height : 6ft
Weight : 186 lbs
Albert wesker is the leader of the STARS Alpha team. After the
bizzare murders started to happen in the raccoon forest area
wesker was the one who sent the BRAVO's to the forest in the
first place, but unknown to the BRAVO's wesker has his own
plans, while the BRAVO team is getting killed one by one
wesker is sitting with his friend William Birkin and he is
making his own plans about what to do with umbrella.
Wesker's story is that of a sadistic mind, he doesnt care for
alot of people in the world and he isnt afraid of killing
anyone for his reasons. Wesker was the man who ordered the
facility and the train to be destroyed but he doesnt know who
caused that incident. After a while in the game wesker finally
finds out that the person responsible for that is someone
who he thought was dead.
After wesker was sure that the BRAVO team is dead he sends in
the ALPHA team and goes in with them, during the course of
the mansion incident wesker reveals his own plans to jill
valentine and chris redfield, two members of the ALPHA team.
But wesker is killed by his own creation and presumed dead
until chris meets him in december at rockfort base.
What does wesker want ? Why is he doing all this and when
will he come to rest with all his schemes, play the game
to find all this out.
###Wesker excelled inside the S.T.A.R.S. organization and led the
Alpha Team in Resident Evil. Viewed by many as a "cool guy,", Wesker
was recruited by a headhunter for his sharp insight. Although he
founded the S.T.A.R.S. unit in Raccoon City, he was really spying
on Umbrella. He was nearly killed by Tyrant and injected himself with
the T-virus which made him all-powerful. In Resident Evil Code: Veronica
X, he escaped the destruction and now remains at large. ###
WILLIAM BIRKIN :
Age : 36
Blood type : O
Height : 5ft 8in
Weight : 147 lbs
William Birkin is the creator of the T virus and he is also known
to be the man who created the T virus, he was just a 16 year old
boy when he joined umbrella, but because of his smarts and his
over evolved brain he was able to do more in a few years which
most of the scientists werent able to do in their entire life.
He was doing his job great until Alexia Ashford came to being and
that totally discouraged birkin and birkin almost worked 24 hours
a day trying to make new discoveries. But after Alexia ashford
disappeared Birkin got back to his usual self and again continued
his research with umbrella.
He was with wesker when James Marcus was assasinated and he is
one of the two people who Marcus wants to kill, birkin vowed that
he will take over marcus's research and that is exactly what he
did, he continued the reserach marcus left and finally in 1998
he managed to create the more strong alternative to the T virus.
The G virus.
Birkin has only one friend in the whole ranks of umbrella and that
is his partner from the start, albert wesker. They plan everything
together and they perform their operations together. Sometimes
birkin just gets irritated by wesker's cruelty and during the
course of this game we see that birkin tries to warn wesker about
what he's doing but wesker doesnt listen to him. Birkin, as a counter
measure, gives wesker the new virus he developed which causes a
human to go in temporary state of death then reanimates him with
superhuman powers.
Soon after the mansion incident birkin founds out the harsh
truth that umbrella doesnt like to play games with anyone and he
himself becomes a target for umbrella just like marcus before
him. But what happens to him ? Play Resident Evil 2 to find out.
##Father of Sherry and creator of the G-virus. He becomes mortally
wounded when Umbrella's "special forces" try to steal it from him.
To cheat death, he injects himself with the deadly virus and
mutates into a monster ##
BRAVO TEAM :
ENRICO MARINI :
Age : 41
Blood type O
Height : 6ft 3in
Weight : 186 lbs
Enrico marini is the proud captain of the BRAVO's, he is a true
leader and has a leading quality which not alot of people have.
Enrico treats his team like they are his own family and in return
the BRAVO team also respects him alot. When the BRAVO team was asked
to head into the forests Enrico led his team bravely into the forests.
But he didnt knew that this mission would be the final one of his life.
He was a proud soul and his memory shall live on forever.
When the BRAVO team lands in the forest area Enrico asks his team to
spread out in the forest and upon finding Billy Coen's report he believes
that it was Billy who killed those MP people. During the course of this
game Enrico contacts becky a few times via radio and warns him that
billy is a dangerous man and that she should watch out for him.
Enrico also shows up in the factory area later on in the game, how he
got there was a mystery which remains unanswered.
1 day later Enrico manages to make it to the spencer estate and somehow
reach the catacombs area below the mansion, there he tells chris or jill
that this all was a trap, but before he could reveal the name of that
traitor he is shot, thus ending the soldier's life in a sad way.
Killed by one of his own comrades. That is no way for a solider to go.
##Bravo Team's leader and Wesker's second in command for the S.T.A.R.S.
unit. Enrico feels threatened by the arrival of the Alpha Team, thinking
that Chris or Barry may end up replacing him as #2 to Wesker. Nonetheless,
Enrico is a dedicated S.T.A.R.S. operative and is always proud to lead
the unit when Wesker lets him. ##
FOREST SPAYER :
Forest spayer is the mechanic expert of the BRAVO team, in this game
he doesnt have any dialogue and you only see a slight glimpse of him
in the opening movie of the game. Forest is a good friend of chris
redfield and they used to spend alot of time togather, before the
mansion incident forest told chris that he didn't had a good feeling
about this and he was exactly right, forest spear is shown dead
in the original resident evil, he managed to make it to the Spencer
estate, but he was wounded, and pecked to death by crows. Sad fate.
##Forest is a great sniper in addition to his duties as Bravo's vehicle
specialist. He is a consummate professional and his work earns him great
respect from the other members. He instantly clicks with Chris, and it
seems they'll end up good team-mate s. ##
KENNETH SULLIVAN :
Kenneth is the chemical specialist of the BRAVO team, he also has
no dialogues in this game, he is only shown slightly in the opening
FMV of the game. This man also dies later on in the Spencer estate
and the ALPHA team find his final recording. He was killed by a single
zombie, and his face is eaten when the Alpha's find him.
##A quiet but very talented field scouting officer. Also an expert
in chemistry. He wonders why his chemical experience would be
necessary in Raccoon City but quickly discounts his hesitancy
since Wesker himself sought him to enlist in S.T.A.R.S. ##
RICHARD AIKEN :
Richer Aileen was one of the only surviving member who was able to
make contact with the ALPHA team in the Remake, he has no role
at all in this game, and like the others, is only shown in the
opening FMV, he dies in the Spencer estate when he is either killed
by a shark or by a large snake.
# A very important member of S.T.A.R.S. serving as Bravo's communications
expert. The only link back to headquarters for teams out in the field,
Richard actually has to pull double duty, as radioman for both units
since Alpha Team really has no trained operator, except for Jill.
EDWARD DEWEY :
Edward is one of the only few members of the BRAVO team who has
some dialogue in this game, nothing was known about this person
in the original or the Remake or resident evil. But in this game
becky meets him just after she meets billy coen for the first
time. Unfortunately all he can do is warn rebecca about all the
monsters out there in the forest and then he dies because he is
fatally wounded. Assumed injured by the zombie dogs. He was the
co pilot of the BRAVO's.
KEVIN DOOLY :
This is the member of the BRAVO's we least know about, he wasnt
mentioned in the original RE at all , and in the REmake we only
see his dead body in the opening FMV, in this game too all we
see is him signing off to becky and his face is covered so we
dont get to see that either, he was the pilot for BRAVO and he
stays in the chopper after the rest of the team head out. He
was murdered probably by the zombie dogs.
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