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==Resident Evil: Code Veronica==
CV occurs right after RE2 and has Claire Redfield continuing to look for her older brother Chris, but was caught by Umbrella and ends up on Rockfort island, a private prison island run by the incredibly psychotic Alfred Ashford. Things however, once again go not as planned as a bio-terror attack on the island by a mysterious organization left the island in total, flesh-consuming chaos. She later meets an inmate named Steve Burnside and the two of them think up of a plan to escape the island.

Its later revealed that Alfred has been planning the return of his sister: Alexia Ashford, who has been in hibernation for the past 15 years in the middle of an abandoned Umbrella lab in the Antarctic. She's the creator of a new strain of mutagenic virus that Rockfort was attacked for; the T-Veronica virus, created by splicing the T-virus with a primordial virus found [[What|inside an amber-preserved fossilized ant]]. This new strain allows the host to retain their sanity, even after being mutated by the virus, and anyone infected second-hand will be under the control of the virus' original carrier (which would be Alexia), also there's this random bit about their blood being flammable. Although the downside is that it has a long incubation time, that if improperly handled, will cause the host to degrade into regular T-virus mutants, hence the 15-year power nap. 

Learning of this, Claire, Steve, and later Chris himself after Leon got Claire's distress call, set out to ensure that Alexia does not escape and start a new wave of bio-terrorism. They eventually prevailed, in what is probably one of the most frustrating boss fights in RE history.

Oh and Albert Wesker, the bad guy the team in the original who seemed unimportant in the long term, comes back and gave himself superpowers. Its also revealed his organization was the one responsible for unleashing the bio-terror outbreak on Rockfort island. He also tried to take down Alexia after she woke up, but ended up being outclassed, even with his superhuman bullshit (also he had no guns, so that's probably another thing). He does a 180 and has Chris battle the newly-awakened Alexia instead, which he succeeds in putting down, unsurprisingly with guns (which kinda makes Wesker's superpowers underwhelming in the larger scope).

RE:CV is also notable for being the first Resident Evil game to use fully 3D environments, rather than the static, pre-rendered ones in the PS1 era.

There are technically two versions of Code Veronica; the Dreamcast original, and Code: Veronica X, a tweaked version released for the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube. X has a couple of minor but notable differences, largely consisting of a less spoilery eyecatcher movie, Steve's haircut being redesigned from its blatantly Leonardo diCaprio homage, a more even fight scene between Wesker and Alexia, a new cutscene where Claire encounters Wesker on Rockfort Island, and an extended ending that includes a final brief facedown between the Redfield siblings and Wesker.

Code: Veronica was originally supposed to be the "official" Resident Evil 3, with Nemesis being more of a side-project created to keep fans hyped up until Code: Veronica was released. Ironically, Nemesis ended up being so popular that ''it'' got the official designation of Resident Evil 3 instead, and Code: Veronica has been ignored ever since outside of the lightgun games. It's notable that ''Resident Evil 4'' was the third game to get a big flashy remake after the success of Resident Evils 7 and 8, despite fans clamoring for Code: Veronica to get the same treatment that RE2 and RE3 had gotten already.