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resident evil isnt a continued story so you dont need to know anything apart from that there are zombies around, and RE4 is a great game

Tenori Taiga wrote:
resident evil isnt a continued story so you dont need to know anything apart from that there are zombies around, and RE4 is a great game

Yeah its not necessary, but playing others will help you understand all the back stories. As Umbrella Corp has its hands in the cookie jar a lot.

Sorta, has a few characters in common, but I think thats about it (Haven’t played em all).

the movies (the live action ones) are not canon to the RE storyline, theres movie characters based off their game counterparts. it would be best to play the games in order and to not bother with the movies at all.

Nope :) It doesn’t have a continuing story line, but you could get background info from playing the other games or reading their summaries on wikipedia or something

You don’t have to. Unlike some other games where there’s a continuing storyline and you just can’t jump time and the storyline, Resident Evil gives you the liberty to jump the stories. Check here, http://gamessmiley.com/video-games/12…

Resident Evil 5 ostensibly has a story, but it is a story that you can easily miss if you do not pay close attention. The original Resident Evil concerns an accidental release of the T-virus which turns humans into mindless zombie like scourges or hideously transformed monsters. In the current sequel, the old T-virus has now graduated to what amounts to a tool of control, creating an army of infected that have evolved from shambling, clumsy adversaries to fighting more as soldiers, riding motorcycles and wielding machine guns. The game also sees the return of Chris Redfield, who heads to an unnamed country in Africa to uncover yet another madman’s sinister plot to dominate the world by unleashing the new and improved virus—always a good idea in theory in the villain’s mind, but it never quite works out the way it is intended.