Chris’s adventure harks back to the urban chaos of Resident Evil 2, but it’s also the closest the series has ever come to being a straight third-person action game. Three different campaigns, then, and three surprisingly different experiences.

It turns out that Jake is the son of notorious Resi villain Albert Wesker, and that his blood might just hold the key to stopping the latest virus before it destroys the world. Finally, in the fictional Eastern European state of Edonia, a mercenary – Jake Muller – teams up with Resident Evil 2’s Sherry Birkin as the BSAA (the good guys) battle more J’Avo in a remote mountain city. On the other hand, it’s also a sequel to Resident Evil 4, continuing the adventures of Leon Kennedy as he tackles zombies and other bio-monstrosities in, around and under an American university town. On the one hand, Resident Evil 6 acts like a straight sequel to Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil: Revelations, tracking Chris Redfield and his squad as they’re sent into action against hyper-charged terrorist mutants – the J’Avo – in a fictional Chinese city. Resident Evil 6 incorporates not one but three lengthy campaigns, each fully-playable in single-player or co-op modes, and all three binding together in one massive over-arching storyline. At times, the new Resident Evil offering feels like an apology, and at times it feels like a statement of intent: sure, other developers can make survival horror games, but can they make them as big and as bonkers as us? It’s a bit unkind to label Resident Evil 5 a dud – for all the flabby plotting and Sheva’s rotten AI it still had sections of brilliance – but you won’t find many people who would put it up there with the likes of Resident Evil 4, and there’s a real sense that EA’s Dead Space duo has defined the horror game for this generation (even if it borrowed a lot from Resident Evil 4).

Capcom always knew it had a lot to prove, and with Resident Evil 6 it’s thrown just about everything at putting the longstanding horror series back on top.

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