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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 69654" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>As the highly anticipated release of Resident Evil Requiem creeps ever closer, there has never been a better time to unearth the history of this pioneering series. Interconnected and deeply tangled like a tentacular T-Virus mutation, the events chronicling this nearly three-decade-long trailblazer are essential to understanding what will transpire in next year’s entry. So, grab your first-aid spray and check your ammo—let’s get started.</p><p></p><h2>Resident Evil Zero: The Spark</h2><p></p><p>Long before a steroid-obsessed Chris Redfield was punching boulders, the nightmare began with three architects of ruin: Edward Ashford, James Marcus, and the chillingly calculated Ozwell E. Spencer. After discovering the “Progenitor” virus in Africa – an ancient strain capable of radical biological restructuring – the trio founded the Umbrella Corporation. Their goal was nothing less than weaponised evolution, refined into what would become the T-Virus.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE0.jpg" alt="Resident Evil Zero" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>While the world saw a benevolent pharmaceutical giant, Umbrella’s real business lay in black-site laboratories and military contracts. This hubris inevitably backfired, culminating in a localised outbreak in the Arklay Mountains. Rookie S.T.A.R.S. medic Rebecca Chambers and escaped death-row inmate Billy Coen became the first unwilling witnesses aboard a derailed train crawling with infected horrors. Their investigation led them to a grotesquely mutated James Marcus, resurrected and driven by a desire for revenge. Though Marcus was finally destroyed, the damage was done – Rebecca fled toward the Spencer Mansion, while Billy disappeared into the forest, his fate deliberately left unresolved.</p><p></p><h2>Resident Evil: The Mansion Incident</h2><p></p><p>Dispatched to locate the missing Bravo Team, the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team – including Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Barry Burton, and their commander Albert Wesker – sought shelter in the ominous Spencer Mansion. What appeared abandoned was anything but: the estate was a sealed ecosystem of zombies, experimental predators, and the Tyrant, Umbrella’s crown-jewel bioweapon.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE.jpg" alt="Resident Evil" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>The greatest betrayal, however, came from within. Wesker revealed himself as an Umbrella operative, orchestrating the incident to collect live combat data by sacrificing his own team. The plan unravelled when the Tyrant turned on its handler, allowing the surviving S.T.A.R.S. members to escape and destroy the mansion. Chris, Jill, and Barry emerged alive – but marked. Umbrella would never allow witnesses to walk away unpunished.</p><p></p><h2>Resident Evil 2 & 3: The Fall of Raccoon City</h2><p></p><p>Only months later, the nightmare went public. A T-Virus leak spread through Raccoon City’s water supply, transforming a thriving Midwestern metropolis into a necropolis almost overnight. Rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy crossed paths with Claire Redfield, who had come searching for her missing brother, Chris. Together, they fought through police stations, sewers, and laboratories, uncovering Umbrella’s sins piece by piece.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE2.jpg" alt="Resident Evil 2" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>Central to the disaster was William Birkin, a scientist who had perfected the G-Virus, an unstable pathogen that drove relentless mutation and regeneration. His daughter Sherry became both a target and a symbol of Umbrella’s moral collapse. While Leon and Claire escaped with their lives, Jill Valentine was enduring her own hell nearby. In Resident Evil 3, she was hunted relentlessly by Nemesis, a bioweapon engineered specifically to eliminate surviving S.T.A.R.S. members.</p><p></p><p>With containment impossible, the U.S. government made the unthinkable decision to sterilise the city with a nuclear strike. Raccoon City was wiped from the map, and Umbrella’s public image collapsed alongside it.</p><p></p><h2>Resident Evil Code: Veronica: The Legacy Continues</h2><p></p><p>Umbrella’s downfall did not mean its extinction. Claire Redfield’s continued search for Chris led her to Rockfort Island, a remote prison facility controlled by the unhinged Ashford lineage. There, the siblings reunited amid yet another outbreak – this time fueled by lingering Umbrella experiments and old family grudges.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentVeronica.jpg" alt="Resident Evil Code: Veronica" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>More importantly, Albert Wesker returned. Having survived the mansion incident through viral self-experimentation, he emerged superhuman, ruthless, and fully independent. Though the Redfields escaped the Ashford Antarctic base, Wesker vanished with invaluable virus samples, ensuring that Umbrella’s research would survive, no longer centralised, but scattered across the global black market.</p><p></p><h2>Resident Evil 4 & 5: Global Bioterror</h2><p></p><p>The series pivoted dramatically with Resident Evil 4. Leon S. Kennedy, now a hardened government agent, was dispatched to rural Spain to rescue the President’s kidnapped daughter, Ashley Graham. There, he encountered Las Plagas – an ancient parasitic organism capable of controlling hosts while preserving intelligence, signalling a shift from mindless zombies to deliberate, organised threats.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE4.jpg" alt="Resident Evil 4" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>This evolution of bioweapons is carried directly into Resident Evil 5. Chris Redfield, now a founding member of the BSAA, deployed to Africa with partner Sheva Alomar. They uncovered TRICELL, a corporate successor exploiting Umbrella’s abandoned research. At its centre stood Wesker, intent on unleashing the Uroboros virus to “perfect” humanity through forced selection.</p><p></p><p>The conflict ended in spectacular excess (yes, including a volcanic showdown and the infamous boulder punch), but Wesker’s death marked a turning point. Bioterrorism was no longer an isolated conspiracy; it had become a permanent, global arms race.</p><p></p><h2>Resident Evil 6: The Global Crisis</h2><p></p><p>That arms race exploded in Resident Evil 6. Spanning multiple continents and intersecting storylines, the game followed Leon, Chris, and Jake Muller – Wesker’s estranged son and a living genetic anomaly – as they confronted Neo-Umbrella and its C-Virus. This new pathogen blurred the line between infection and weaponisation, capable of tailored mutations on a massive scale.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE6.jpg" alt="Resident Evil 6" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>While the heroes prevented total annihilation, the cost was staggering. Entire cities were lost, alliances fractured, and the illusion of control finally collapsed. The age of clean victories was over.</p><p></p><h2>Resident Evil 7 & Village: The Winters Saga</h2><p></p><p>The series then narrowed its focus with Ethan Winters, an ordinary man searching for his missing wife in the swamps of Louisiana. What he found was Eveline and “The Mold” – a sentient fungal organism capable of imitation, control, and psychological manipulation. Gone were global conspiracies; the horror was intimate, claustrophobic, and deeply personal.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE7.jpg" alt="Resident Evil 7" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>That intimacy carried into Resident Evil Village, where Ethan’s pursuit of his kidnapped daughter led him to an isolated European village ruled by Mother Miranda. The truth was brutal: Ethan himself had died in Louisiana, unknowingly sustained as a mold construct. Yet even that revelation couldn’t stop him from making the ultimate sacrifice to save Rose.</p><p></p><p>In the aftermath, a weary Chris Redfield took responsibility for Rose’s protection, having uncovered a final, unsettling truth – the BSAA, the organisation he helped create, had begun deploying bioweapons of its own. History, it seemed, was already starting to repeat itself.</p><p></p><h2>Resident Evil Requiem: The Final Reckoning</h2><p></p><p>This brings us to the present. Thirty years after the destruction of Raccoon City, Resident Evil Requiem seems set to bridge the gap between the franchise’s origins and its future. The story introduces Grace Ashcroft, daughter of Outbreak’s Alyssa Ashcroft, who returns to a decaying Midwest hotel to investigate a series of recent murders and, hopefully, solve her mother’s murder at the same time.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRERequiem.jpg" alt="Resident Evil Requiem" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>In a potentially legendary crossover, she looks set to join forces with fan-favourite Leon S. Kennedy as they both must face their pasts and uncover the truth behind the Raccoon City Incident. With rumours swirling about Leon’s own infection and a return to the restricted “Dead Zone” of Raccoon City, Requiem is set to be the ultimate survival horror experience – a culmination of three decades of fear, shadow, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit.</p><p></p><p>The post <a href="https://www.greenmangaming.com/blog/road-to-requiem-resident-evil-story-and-timeline-recap/" target="_blank">The Road to Requiem: Resident Evil Story and Timeline Recap</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.greenmangaming.com/blog" target="_blank">Green Man Gaming Blog</a>.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.greenmangaming.com/blog/road-to-requiem-resident-evil-story-and-timeline-recap/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 69654, member: 1"] As the highly anticipated release of Resident Evil Requiem creeps ever closer, there has never been a better time to unearth the history of this pioneering series. Interconnected and deeply tangled like a tentacular T-Virus mutation, the events chronicling this nearly three-decade-long trailblazer are essential to understanding what will transpire in next year’s entry. So, grab your first-aid spray and check your ammo—let’s get started. [HEADING=1]Resident Evil Zero: The Spark[/HEADING] Long before a steroid-obsessed Chris Redfield was punching boulders, the nightmare began with three architects of ruin: Edward Ashford, James Marcus, and the chillingly calculated Ozwell E. Spencer. After discovering the “Progenitor” virus in Africa – an ancient strain capable of radical biological restructuring – the trio founded the Umbrella Corporation. Their goal was nothing less than weaponised evolution, refined into what would become the T-Virus. [IMG alt="Resident Evil Zero"]http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE0.jpg[/IMG] While the world saw a benevolent pharmaceutical giant, Umbrella’s real business lay in black-site laboratories and military contracts. This hubris inevitably backfired, culminating in a localised outbreak in the Arklay Mountains. Rookie S.T.A.R.S. medic Rebecca Chambers and escaped death-row inmate Billy Coen became the first unwilling witnesses aboard a derailed train crawling with infected horrors. Their investigation led them to a grotesquely mutated James Marcus, resurrected and driven by a desire for revenge. Though Marcus was finally destroyed, the damage was done – Rebecca fled toward the Spencer Mansion, while Billy disappeared into the forest, his fate deliberately left unresolved. [HEADING=1]Resident Evil: The Mansion Incident[/HEADING] Dispatched to locate the missing Bravo Team, the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team – including Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Barry Burton, and their commander Albert Wesker – sought shelter in the ominous Spencer Mansion. What appeared abandoned was anything but: the estate was a sealed ecosystem of zombies, experimental predators, and the Tyrant, Umbrella’s crown-jewel bioweapon. [IMG alt="Resident Evil"]http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE.jpg[/IMG] The greatest betrayal, however, came from within. Wesker revealed himself as an Umbrella operative, orchestrating the incident to collect live combat data by sacrificing his own team. The plan unravelled when the Tyrant turned on its handler, allowing the surviving S.T.A.R.S. members to escape and destroy the mansion. Chris, Jill, and Barry emerged alive – but marked. Umbrella would never allow witnesses to walk away unpunished. [HEADING=1]Resident Evil 2 & 3: The Fall of Raccoon City[/HEADING] Only months later, the nightmare went public. A T-Virus leak spread through Raccoon City’s water supply, transforming a thriving Midwestern metropolis into a necropolis almost overnight. Rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy crossed paths with Claire Redfield, who had come searching for her missing brother, Chris. Together, they fought through police stations, sewers, and laboratories, uncovering Umbrella’s sins piece by piece. [IMG alt="Resident Evil 2"]http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE2.jpg[/IMG] Central to the disaster was William Birkin, a scientist who had perfected the G-Virus, an unstable pathogen that drove relentless mutation and regeneration. His daughter Sherry became both a target and a symbol of Umbrella’s moral collapse. While Leon and Claire escaped with their lives, Jill Valentine was enduring her own hell nearby. In Resident Evil 3, she was hunted relentlessly by Nemesis, a bioweapon engineered specifically to eliminate surviving S.T.A.R.S. members. With containment impossible, the U.S. government made the unthinkable decision to sterilise the city with a nuclear strike. Raccoon City was wiped from the map, and Umbrella’s public image collapsed alongside it. [HEADING=1]Resident Evil Code: Veronica: The Legacy Continues[/HEADING] Umbrella’s downfall did not mean its extinction. Claire Redfield’s continued search for Chris led her to Rockfort Island, a remote prison facility controlled by the unhinged Ashford lineage. There, the siblings reunited amid yet another outbreak – this time fueled by lingering Umbrella experiments and old family grudges. [IMG alt="Resident Evil Code: Veronica"]http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentVeronica.jpg[/IMG] More importantly, Albert Wesker returned. Having survived the mansion incident through viral self-experimentation, he emerged superhuman, ruthless, and fully independent. Though the Redfields escaped the Ashford Antarctic base, Wesker vanished with invaluable virus samples, ensuring that Umbrella’s research would survive, no longer centralised, but scattered across the global black market. [HEADING=1]Resident Evil 4 & 5: Global Bioterror[/HEADING] The series pivoted dramatically with Resident Evil 4. Leon S. Kennedy, now a hardened government agent, was dispatched to rural Spain to rescue the President’s kidnapped daughter, Ashley Graham. There, he encountered Las Plagas – an ancient parasitic organism capable of controlling hosts while preserving intelligence, signalling a shift from mindless zombies to deliberate, organised threats. [IMG alt="Resident Evil 4"]http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE4.jpg[/IMG] This evolution of bioweapons is carried directly into Resident Evil 5. Chris Redfield, now a founding member of the BSAA, deployed to Africa with partner Sheva Alomar. They uncovered TRICELL, a corporate successor exploiting Umbrella’s abandoned research. At its centre stood Wesker, intent on unleashing the Uroboros virus to “perfect” humanity through forced selection. The conflict ended in spectacular excess (yes, including a volcanic showdown and the infamous boulder punch), but Wesker’s death marked a turning point. Bioterrorism was no longer an isolated conspiracy; it had become a permanent, global arms race. [HEADING=1]Resident Evil 6: The Global Crisis[/HEADING] That arms race exploded in Resident Evil 6. Spanning multiple continents and intersecting storylines, the game followed Leon, Chris, and Jake Muller – Wesker’s estranged son and a living genetic anomaly – as they confronted Neo-Umbrella and its C-Virus. This new pathogen blurred the line between infection and weaponisation, capable of tailored mutations on a massive scale. [IMG alt="Resident Evil 6"]http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE6.jpg[/IMG] While the heroes prevented total annihilation, the cost was staggering. Entire cities were lost, alliances fractured, and the illusion of control finally collapsed. The age of clean victories was over. [HEADING=1]Resident Evil 7 & Village: The Winters Saga[/HEADING] The series then narrowed its focus with Ethan Winters, an ordinary man searching for his missing wife in the swamps of Louisiana. What he found was Eveline and “The Mold” – a sentient fungal organism capable of imitation, control, and psychological manipulation. Gone were global conspiracies; the horror was intimate, claustrophobic, and deeply personal. [IMG alt="Resident Evil 7"]http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRE7.jpg[/IMG] That intimacy carried into Resident Evil Village, where Ethan’s pursuit of his kidnapped daughter led him to an isolated European village ruled by Mother Miranda. The truth was brutal: Ethan himself had died in Louisiana, unknowingly sustained as a mold construct. Yet even that revelation couldn’t stop him from making the ultimate sacrifice to save Rose. In the aftermath, a weary Chris Redfield took responsibility for Rose’s protection, having uncovered a final, unsettling truth – the BSAA, the organisation he helped create, had begun deploying bioweapons of its own. History, it seemed, was already starting to repeat itself. [HEADING=1]Resident Evil Requiem: The Final Reckoning[/HEADING] This brings us to the present. Thirty years after the destruction of Raccoon City, Resident Evil Requiem seems set to bridge the gap between the franchise’s origins and its future. The story introduces Grace Ashcroft, daughter of Outbreak’s Alyssa Ashcroft, who returns to a decaying Midwest hotel to investigate a series of recent murders and, hopefully, solve her mother’s murder at the same time. [IMG alt="Resident Evil Requiem"]http://main.blog-mgmt.greenmangaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BlogContentRERequiem.jpg[/IMG] In a potentially legendary crossover, she looks set to join forces with fan-favourite Leon S. Kennedy as they both must face their pasts and uncover the truth behind the Raccoon City Incident. With rumours swirling about Leon’s own infection and a return to the restricted “Dead Zone” of Raccoon City, Requiem is set to be the ultimate survival horror experience – a culmination of three decades of fear, shadow, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. The post [URL='https://www.greenmangaming.com/blog/road-to-requiem-resident-evil-story-and-timeline-recap/']The Road to Requiem: Resident Evil Story and Timeline Recap[/URL] appeared first on [URL='https://www.greenmangaming.com/blog']Green Man Gaming Blog[/URL]. [url="https://www.greenmangaming.com/blog/road-to-requiem-resident-evil-story-and-timeline-recap/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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