Released by Capcom in the year 2012 on the Nintendo 3DS and later ported to multiple
platforms, Resident Evil: Revelation was a game that focused more on the series roots
of survival horror versus survival action, after criticism that Resident 5 and Operation
Raccoon City strayed too far into action.
Directed by Koshi Nakanishi, who also directed Resident Evil 7, and written by Dai Koto,
who helped write anime series Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell, the game was slower
paced, emphasizing exploration in a claustrophpbic environment reminiscent of classic mansion
settings.
For gameplay, the game is third person with the character more in frame, but slightly
off-center, allowing more visibility in an more closed-environment.
In many ways, its closer to the first Resident Evil, by means of solving puzzles, gaining
keys to gradually unlock new areas, managing a limited inventory of health items, ammo,
and weapons with access to safe room Item Boxes, and interpreting health with visual
cues instead of a set health bar.
But it blends elements of the more action-leaning Resident Evils, with weapon upgrading, precision
aiming, being able to move while shooting, and the dodge and quick-turn maneuvers.
Unique here, weapons were upgraded with collectible and interchangable modification parts, allowing
the player to truly customize their personal loadout.
For story, the game features the return of series originals Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine,
though there are several short segments where the player will play as one of the supporting
characters.
A new virus and enemy type called the Ooze premiere here, and each have multiple means
of attack, and the ability to even appear before or behind the player by traveling through
vents and grates, adding an element of surprise, randomization, and pressure.
Introduced was a new minigame mode called Raid Mode in which similar to Resident Evil
3's Mercenaries mode, the goal is to reach the end of a scenario and level while also
beating as many foes as possible.
Keep in mind, the actual game tells its story in episodes not necessarily in chroniclogical
order, but for this recap I will be presenting the events in chronological order.
The story only gets larger from here, so let's cut it down to size with a RECAPitation.
Composer: Kota Suzuki, Takeshi Miura, Ichiro Komoto.
In 2004, shortly after the fall of Umbrella, Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine help co-found
the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance, or the BSAA for short.
Despite Umbrella being shut down, many of the BOWs they created and sold in black markets
were still around and ironically more of a threat now that Umbrella wasn't trying to
regulate their distribution and cover them up.
Backed by the United Nations, their mission is to investigate and eliminate bioterrorism
around the world.
At this time, we are introduced to Terragrigia, an artificial floating city in the Mediterranean
Sea that is energy independant thanks to its advanced solar energy matrix.
Later in 2004, Veltro, a terrorist group opposing the construction of the aquapolis, unleased
a virus in the city and several bio-weapons to enact one of the worst global tragedies
seen in years.
The United States-based FBC, the then-current leader in counter-bioterrorism, was called
in to contain the outbreak, though refused to work with any other group other than the
UN backed BSAA, whom they only allowed in as an observer.
Acting quickly, the leader of the FBC, Morgan Lansdale, made the controversial decision
to turn the city's solar matrix unto itself and vaporize the city, marking the incident
to be referred to as the Terragrigia Panic.
Afterwards, the FBC claimed victory in disbanding Veltro, and a year later, the remnants of
the city still stand as a reminder of the threat of bioterrorism.
During the outbreak however, we see FBC agents, Parker and Jessica despair as the city is
overrun.
As they escape they note an attack of this scale is exactly what Lansdale was warning
about when he asked for more resources for the FBC.
They find a wounded cadet named Raymond, and save his life as they treat him and move him
to safety.
Raymond questions how such a small group was able to pull off such a professionally done
job with large amounts of BOWs without the FBC noticing, and openly wonders if it was
an inside job.
Making it to Lansdale in the command center, Lansdale remarks how this is a wake-up call
and gives the order for the FBC to evacuate as well.
BSAA Director O'Brian now enters, disapproving of the hasty move to destroy the entire city,
reminding Lansdale that extreme moves like this create extreme groups like Veltro in
the first place.
Lansdale dismisses him as they all move to escape, and Parker and Jessica clear out the
entire lobby full of hunters by themselves en route to their chopper.
(The mass produced Hunter is deployed ot search and destroy the 10% of survivors that are
not affected by the t-virus).
Along the way, they somewhat agree with O'Brian that the FBC mishandled this outbreak, relating
the disaster to Raccoon City.
As they make it to the chopper and escape, they watch in horror as the Regia Solis power
grid is turned up to incinerate everything.
As a year passes and its 2005, one year after Terragrigia and the events of Resident Evil
4, there are suddenly reports of a number of strange carcasses washing up on the shore
outside where Terragrigia stood.
The BSAA moves in to investigate, and in one of the bodies, agents Parker and Jill find
a strange vial.
The head of the BSAA, O'Brian, is on site and gets a call that agents Chris Redfield
and Jessica have gone missing over the ocean, even though they were in the mountains investigating
a lead on the remnants of Veltro.
Put on the search and rescue case, Jill and Parker hurry out as they board the storm-tossed
luxury liner, the Queen Zenobia, after Chris and Jessica disappeared over an hour and a
half ago at these coordinates.
They see its been abandoned for some time, and after they spot a strange creature, they
discover a corpse with a bizarre new mutation.
Spotting something in a floor grate, Jill IDs the object as a gun thanks to her new
bio-scanning tool, the Genesis.
Lifting it out, she's thankful the gun and hand gripping it don't belong to Chris, but
a new monster she's never seen before called the Ooze creeps up behind her and attacks.
As they kill it, its opens up more questions about what actually happened to the missing
crew or Chris and Jessica.
Searching, she soon finds a locked door that within contains a bound man matching Chris's
physique.
Calling out but getting no response, Jill hurries to find a key to open his cell door,
now hearing a scream from a woman as she sees someone get their head smashed against a glass
window.
She's too late to rescue the mystery woman from the BOWs, but Jill suspects she wasn't
part of the crew and instead from some other organization.
Finding a key and returning to Chris's cell, she rushes in, only to find this was a decoy
dummy, and Parker is dismayed to find the flag of Veltro in the same room.
Realizing too late this is all a trap, they are gassed as a masked man enters, addressing
Jill directly by name, and explaining to her its time to learn the truth.
At the same time, Chris and Jessica are actually still in the Mountains of Europe, though they
can't make contact with HQ on their search for a suspected Veltro Base.
They are surprised to find a plane suddenly come crashing down nearby, but checking out
the crash site, it's prescence here means there is an airbase nearby as suspected.
They find and put down infected wolves that have escaped out of the crash site, confirming
the plane to have belonged to Veltro, and along the way, Jessica asks a few questions
about Chris's relationship to Jill, asking how she compares to her.
Staying focused on the job, they find the airbase where Veltro is hiding out, and suddenly
their radioes work again.
They are hailed by O'Brian, who realizes he's fallen for a trap as he's sent out Jill and
Parker on a mission based on faulty intel and now he's lost contact with them.
Betting this is all to due with Veltro's resurrection, Chris now hurries to rescue Jill and heads
to the Mediterranean.
Back with Jill, she wakes up in bedroom elsewhere on the ship, but without her weapons.
Dodging enemies until she and Parker re-equip, they avoid new variations of the Ooze and
make their way to the bridge, only to find the controls smashed and the ship is adrift.
To make matters worse they see their tugboat explode, and suddenly Jill is grabbed by a
mysterious man.
She escapes his hold though when Parker confronts him, he pauses as the man calls him out by
name, and he recognizes him as Raymond from the FBC.
Parker fires off a warning shot alongside a few more questions, but Raymond refuses
to answer anything, only mocking them that they don't even know why they're here or whom
they're fighting, and leaves.
Admitting he's right, Parker and Jill resolve to search the ship for answers, and find the
communication room so they can contact HQ.
Waiting for some doors to take a rather long time to open, they move to the more luxurious
parts of the cruise ship.
Haunted by the wails of someone crying Mayday in the promenade, they are ambushed by the
bloated mutated body of the former comms officer, who lunges at them with its bizarre chainsaw
arm.
Staying calm and killing the monster, they reach the communication room and find Raymond
there who's also stuck as someone else already beat him here and destroyed most of the equipment.
Their attention is drawn to the screen where a live broadcast is being shown, wherein a
masked man of Veltro is quoting the Divine Comedy as he introduces the T-Abyss virus,
a combination of the new Abyss virus discovered through deep sea exploration and combined
with the t-Virus to easily infect almost any organism.
Showing its rapid infection process, they threaten to contaminate 1/5th of the worlds's
ocean with their sample.
As the masked man reveals himself to be, Jack Norman, the leader of the original Veltro,
Chris asks O'Brian to look for clues in the airbase they saw as he moves towards Jill.
O'Brian agrees and sends tech experts Quint and Keith in to investigate.
Meanwhile, Parker and Raymond are mad to see the return of Veltro and another biohazard,
and while they can still work the communication equipment a little, it needs more power, so
they must turn on the main engine room of the ship.
Raymond gives them a key to access further parts of the ship, and asks if they saw his
FBC partner Rachel, who went missing some time ago on this ship.
Passing through a casino, Jill believes the woman she saw get killed earlier might have
been Rachel who likely has the elevator key they need to proceed.
Returning to where she last found her, she finds the body is mysteriously gone, and only
Rachel's journal remains, but looking up its apparant Rachel has mutated dangerously under
the t-Abyss virus.
Chasing her down and gunning down her powerful mutation, they stun her long enough to get
the key she had and continue onward.
Entering the bilge they find it flooded, but the bulkheads can't be lowered until the main
power is restored as well.
Entering the deep waters filled with Sea Creepers, which are what the majority of infected female
humans turn into, they restore the power on the ship, but suddenly they are locked in
the engine room and it begins flooding.
Back with Quint and Keith, they arrive at the Veltro base and find footage that they
attempted to leave after some BOWs escaped and caused a panic, including one that can
cloak itself.
Finding a key that can unlock a terminal for the crash site, they approach the plane only
to find a new variant Hunter model called the Farfarello developed by Veltro and the
t-Abyss virus that can indeed cloak almost perfectly.
Dealing with them and searching, they find the location of the ship almost too easily,
and while they forward the coordinates to Chris, Quint doesn't feel confident in the
intel laid out so easily for them to find.
Chris and Jessica land on the ship at the given coordinates and he's ready to search
every room for Jill and crush any t-Abyss monsters in his way.
As they storm to the flooded engine room, they enter only to find its completely empty
and bare, with Jill and Parker nowhere in sight.
They now see this ship is actually the Queen Semiramis, an identical sister ship to the
Queen Zenobia, and they now move out to continue their search in the nearby area.
Meanwhile, Jill manages to free herself from the flooded room, and as the power is back
on, they then close the bulkeads and stop the flooding.
They still have no signal despite the power being on, so they now move to the observation
deck to fix the antennae array.
Defeating a giant humanoid shellfish called the Draghignazzo, they restore the communication
array and are finally able to reach HQ.
O'Brian is relieved to hear from them and knows this is all a setup.
Parker asks how he knows its specifically a setup, but O'Brian is interrupted as he
receives word the Regia Solis sattellite is being activated and moved to the Queen Zenobia's
location.
He says Chris is on his way but won't make it in time, and while Jill is releived to
hear Chris is safe, she and Parker are on their own.
Quint calls in, explaining they can confuse the satillite's targetting system using the
UAV drone on the ship that Veltro used to carry out their attacks on Terragrigia, to
instead discharge chaff and throw off the satillite.
Moving to the foredeck and escaping past a resurrected Rachel with a horde of Hunters,
they assemble and prime the UAV, while at the same time, O'Brian confronts Lansdale
on his usage of the Regia Solis again.
They send of the UAV with seconds to spare, and it succeeds in fooling the satellite,
but the ensuing wave begins sinking the ship.
As Jill and Parker swim out of the sinking ship, Chris and Jessica are on their way,
telling them to meet up at the Ship's Hall.
However, they are attacked by monstrously large parasitic worms and fend them off as
they approach and board the ship.
Within, Jill and Parker are halted by another masked man, who shares with them the secrets
he knows about the Queen Zenobia.
He says the fact that the Queen Zenobia has been undetected until recently, the abrupt
disappearance of Veltro after the Terragrigia Panic, and the usage of the Regia Solis now,
are all connected, and point to an inconvenient truth.
Right before he reveals it, he's suddenly shot by Jessica, who arrives on scene with
Chris, and as Parker hurries to rescue the man, its revealed to be Raymond under the
mask.
Parker asks why he pretended to be Veltro, and Raymond whispers something to him before
collapsing.
As the ship shudders, Jill reminds them all they cannot let it contaminate the sea, and
Parker offers to slow the ships sinking with Jessica, while Jill and Chris find the ship's
lab and deal with the virus.
Jessica laments how Chris never fell for her flirtatious advances, and Parker points out
he may already be taken.
Reunited at last, Chris and Jill enter the mostly untouched lab on the ship, and deal
with a pair of Scarmiglione, t-Abyss mutants based on a shark.
Finding the secret of Zenobia, which is that the t-Abyss research lab was hidden in a normal
cruise ship, we cut to Quint and Keith, who are still harvesting information on Veltro
and find evidence linking the FBC to this Veltro site.
After further investigation, he finds Veltro was never back in action, and it was in fact
Director O'Brian who was staging a revival of Veltro, just to trick the BSAA and more
importantly, Lansdale of the FBC.
However, their hacking of the FBC is discovered, and Quint and Keith look up in time to find
the FBC had ordered a bombing of the airbase to close up yet another loose end.
Over with Parker and Jessica, O'Brian checks in on Parker, verifying that Raymond told
him everything, and as a result, Parker knows what to do.
Confronting Jessica and calling her out as a spy within the BSAA for Lansdale, he's surprised
to be joined by Raymond who points out Jessica is here on the bridge trying to activate the
ship's self-destruct mechanism.
Parker hesitates, and Jessica takes a shot at Raymond, but Parker jumps in to take the
hit.
Jessica really does hit the self-destruct button and flees, as Parker urges Raymond
to go on after her and collapses.
Back with Chris and Jill, they find the motherlode of the virus, but learn a vaccine was also
made to neutralize it too.
Seeing there is a huge mutated parasite in the area, they also learn Lansdale used Veltro
as a pawn during the Terragrigia Panic, and financed the development of the t-Abyss virus
and its vaccine.
Like Veltro, when the vaccine was created and in his hands, he killed the staff by releasing
the BOWs they were working on, thus covering his tracks and strengthening his position
in the FBC.
Finding a sample of the prototype vaccine, Jill innoculates herself, adding this to the
t-Virus for things she's immune to.
Just in time, the parasite outside smashes through the protective glass, flooding the
lab with contaminated water, but an immunized Jill is able to freely swim away.
With the passcode in hand, they are able to begin neutalizing the virus in the Zenobia,
and are hailed by Lansdale, who congratulates them on figuring it out and cleansing the
virus.
He shows them the Semiramis blowing up, and claims victory as they now hear the self-destruct
sequence for the Zenobia has started.
Chris swears to see him soon, and the duo hurry to escape the doomed ship.
They are hailed by helicopter pilot Kirk, and along the way, Jill finds the wounded
Parker who reveals Jessica was Lansdale's mole who shot him.
As they move him, a walkway collapses underfoot, and while they struggle to hold onto Parker,
he thanks them but doesn't want to be a burden, and so lets go, plunging into the fires below.
As they make it outside, Kirk circles around to meet them but there is already a rescue
chopper there.
As they approach, the explosions on the ship knock them off their feet, and suddenly the
first chopper is smashed under a massive tentacle.
Emerging from the destroyed ship and ocean depths rises a leviathan whale-like monster
infected with numerous parasites called Malacodas.
Kirk can't rescue them at this time but assists in dropping off ammo and rocket launchers,
as Jill and Chris attempt to kill their literally biggest BOW yet.
They stagger it long enough to be lifted away by Kirk, as they mount heavier guns and send
a rocket down its throat to finally destroy this oversized menace.
Meanwhile, it turns out Parker survived the fall, and is met by Raymond.
He apologizes to Raymond for not trusting him when he was right all along, and helps
to save Parker's life in return for once saving his.
As Chris and Jill fly off, they're radioed by O'Brian, and Chris explains their situation
but insists O'Brian come clean.
O'Brian explains that one year ago, Lansdale used bioterrorist group Veltro to orchestrate
an attack on Terragrigia to show the world how much of a threat BOWs were and thus increase
the FBC's funding and influence.
Veltro's leader Jack Norman didn't like how Lansdale betrayed them too by exposing Veltro
to t-Abyss for experimentation purposes, and swore revenge as he had recorded all their
dealings despite Lansdale dooming them on the Queen Dido cruise ship.
Raymond suspected Lansdale this whole time and worked with O'Brian to set up this whole
act of reviving Veltro, all to put pressure on Lansdale.
However, with Zenobia and Semiramis destroyed there would be no evidence.
Fortunately, Quint found out the location of the hidden third ship Lansdale doomed the
original Veltro to, the Queen Dido, and there lies their evidence.
As Chris and Jill head over to Terragrigia where the Queen Dido rests on the ocean floor,
Lansdale storms into the BSAA HQ seizing control and placing O'Brian under arrest for working
with Veltro.
Making their way inside the old ship, the duo find the blobs that surfaced on the shore
were actually mutated corpses that floated up from this very ship the whole time.
They find a recently killed FBC agent despite how old this wreackage is, who left a recording
revealing Landsale sent a team down here to recover evidence against him.
They find another recording left by Jack Norman explaining he still holds the evidence and
desire for revenge to expose Lansdale, even as the rest of Veltro has died or mutated
and now he too takes the t-Abyss in order to prolong himself.
Deep within the ship, they are surpised to still find Jack Norman alive, but quite mad,
as he drops the evidence needed to incriminate Lansdale.
Jill grabs it, but Norman stops them, thinking them agents of Lansdale.
Drinking an entire vial of t-Abyss, Norman now mutates into the Ultimate Abyss monster,
a Tyrant-like foe with super speed and strength, able to leave illusions of himself in the
minds of others, and like Rachel or the comm officer, able to speak normally.
As the duo ends the true leader of Veltro, and betrayed instigator of the Terragrigia
Panic, they review his evidence and broadcast it publically, showing Lansdale supplying
Norman with the virus and a means to deliver it for the attack.
Fully exposed, O'Brian also produces the t-abyss vial they found on the beach Lansdale had
sectioned off.
Lansdale explains that this was all for the greater good, as without a clear and present
danger, the ignorant public would claim to not need organizations like the FBC or BSAA.
Not commenting on that, O'Brian instead relieves Lansdale of his authority and places him under
arrest.
As the game ends, the sun rises on a new day as the FBC is dissolved and its resources
shifted to the BSAA.
It turns out Keith and Quint survived the airbase bombing and Keith would become the
leader of the East Africa BSAA branch, though Quint refused any promotion, still working
in R&D for the BSAA.
Parker was found and rescued, healing up and returning as a special ops agent for the BSAA.
O'Brian assumed responsibility for his actions and resigned as head of BSAA, but remains
as an advisor who also writes novels from his home.
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine would soon become lost in another nightmare as events
lead right into Resident Evil 5.
Finally, as it turns out, both Jessica and Raymond were triple agents actually working
with each other, and pretending to be FBC and BSAA spies working for Lansdale.
In truth, they were working to secure a sample of the t-Abyss virus for their real employer,
TRICELL, another conglomerate pharmaceutical company that ironically co-funded the BSAA.
Resident Evil: Revelations has enjoyed the success of selling over 2 million copies worldwide.
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