can someone explain something about resident evil and global virus for me.

[Apathetic]

so to put this out there i have watched all the movies for resident evil but this is the only game i have played and im not far into it. I also have the most basic understanding of all the other games.

I get the games are very very VERY different from the movie but i want to understand something.

in the games by R8 is the T virus or any of the other Viruses like the mold or anything a global thing yet. like it was in the movies. It feels like its not because the MC is like "the ♥♥♥♥ was that" when he sees zombies and stuff.

i get the feeling that this is just an isolated event and it is in each game. and the MC stops it.

[River Victor]

The virus is not global, at least not to the level of zombie apocalypse like in those garbage churned out by a shameless director constantly finding an excuse to cast his wife.

RE1-2 is limited to a local countryside.

And there came an outbreak which spread through the Raccoon City.

By the end of Resident Evil 2 and 3 (the time overlaps) a nuke was launched at Raccoon City to sterilize the place. T-Virus and G-Virus are extremely contagious, but the viruses are somewhat contained from the sterilization.

RE4 invovles Las Plagos, which is new. But it's more like leech in nature. Animal. Not unseen pathogen. Therefore, not super contagious.

RE5 is T-Virus in Africa, but the areas are isolated.

6 is T-Virus, but the scope is limited to a city. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

RE7 and the mold is new, but mold isn't extremely contagious, as the source of it is unstable.

[V I D A L]

Oh man.... the T-Virus story ended in RE3. This is RE8... everything you learned from the movies are so far back into the lore than they won't help you.

[Apathetic]

İlk olarak V I D A L tarafından gönderildi:

Oh man.... the T-Virus story ended in RE3. This is RE8... everything you learned from the movies are so far back into the lore than they won't help you.

ya it was more just about wondering if any virus had gone world wide or anything and ya the moves were the most ass thing. still watched em thou
thanks for the info guys

[animal_PLANET]

Iif you like VIllage I would def say to buy RE 4. The las plagas story line was done really well. As this is similar to what happens in nature too. Very interesting.

Plus, its only $5 with summer sale.

[Replica]

I enjoyed the movies but the game has so much better lore and it's all so intricate and woven into the universe than simply being a disaster cheese fest which is what the movies are. Cheesy stuff which actually showed the franchise underneath was mainstream material. How many series go on to get a faithful mainstream adaption after their cheesy fanfic heavy film? Few whereas these rammed through even idiot exec heads- this is where we can make money, there are all these great characters- most game adaptations kill any hope of more movies.

The Milla Jovovich films served the purpose they needed to in an era that is very unlike today when they started. I'm really looking forward to the new main movie and Infinite Darkness.

Games >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> films.

You must buy the Resident Evil 2 remake. I mean, part of the reason I liked the films was because I did it before playing the games and had I played this first, I would have hated them.

It's actually a common theme- people know these viruses and bioweapons exist but it's all 'happening elsewhere' until it happens to them and reality and rumour are hard to separate. There's a lot of things people go through around the world that would be hard for you and I to adapt to or believe immediately. Ethan's fairly realistic... this damn game made me like him on XBOX so I had to buy the seventh game instead of sulking it didn't highlight one of the other characters.

[Winblows]

theres like no actual connection between the live action re films and re games at all, idk if the 3d movies are but id assume its like connected to re6 the closest if they are but so far I dont think the movies have effected the games

I think 6 had the most wide spread out break in the game yet they managed to contain it, i really dont know how they would have tho think they just wanted to have their cake and eat it, i cant remember too much about re6 other then whole citys were over flooded with infected if it was explained in 6 I dont remember

[DeadSlash]

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theres like no actual connection between the live action re films and re games at all, idk if the 3d movies are but id assume its like connected to re6 the closest if they are but so far I dont think the movies have effected the games

The live action movies are like completely unrelated to the game except for some fan service that was mostly in the first one.

The CGI ones aren't nearly as terrible as the live action ones (imo) and they are far more related to the RE universe, but neither series is canon.

@OP, The live action movies basically share a name and nothing else. In other words, don't try and find a link or draw a link, or your mind will break because it isn't there.

The problem is compounded by the fact that RE:7 and RE:8 is like a whole new line of lore.

[Lahgtah]

İlk olarak River Victor tarafından gönderildi:

The virus is not global, at least not to the level of zombie apocalypse like in those garbage churned out by a shameless director constantly finding an excuse to cast his wife.

RE1-2 is limited to a local countryside.

And there came an outbreak which spread through the Raccoon City.

By the end of Resident Evil 2 and 3 (the time overlaps) a nuke was launched at Raccoon City to sterilize the place. T-Virus and G-Virus are extremely contagious, but the viruses are somewhat contained from the sterilization.

RE4 invovles Las Plagos, which is new. But it's more like leech in nature. Animal. Not unseen pathogen. Therefore, not super contagious.

RE5 is T-Virus in Africa, but the areas are isolated.

6 is T-Virus, but the scope is limited to a city. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

RE7 and the mold is new, but mold isn't extremely contagious, as the source of it is unstable.

To add to the this, RE5 also had Las Plagas for most of its enemies, albeit a modified strain that took effect instantly instead of having to wait for the eggs to hatch and mature. Only the Uroboros(wormy dudes) are T-Virus.

But yeah this is pretty much a list of all you need to know. There are spin-off games which have their own little hybrid plagues, but one thing I love about RE is that it keeps things fresh rather than recycling the same disease over and over(because let's face it - zombies get boring after a while, hence the advent of ganados, majini, the molded, and lycans which made RE different than a mere zombie survival game.)