Editing Resident Evil (section)

==Resident Evil 5== 
RE5 is... The odd point of the series. This is where Capcom decided to hop onto the "Call of Duty" bandwagon that was growing in the West by making their games more action-oriented, instead of sticking to survival horror. A lot of fans were [[skub|divided on this game's new direction]].

For the story, this stars Chris Redfield, whom you would have never recognized due to Capcom redesigning him as a roid-raging body builder, and Sheva Alomar, who is there as the token black character (we're not kidding, this is the primary reason she's in the game). Both of them are members of the BSAA (Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance), an international paramilitary group dedicated to fighting the new wave of bio-terrorism spurred on by the collapse of Umbrella. They're currently in Africa to investigate a bio-weapons exchange.

This once again features Las Plagas from the previous game, except they've been refined by a mysterious organization to be more potent and deadly. The other big threat is the "Uroboros" virus, a new pathogen developed by Wesker himself and covertly funded by yet another morally bankrupt company known as Tricell, led by Excella Gionne, an absurdly seductive Italian woman who has a lady-boner for Albert until his sudden and inevitable betrayal. Uroboros itself is...odd. It turns people into creatures comprised of multiple worm-like organisms that only live to consume more and more biomass to grow, unless they are genetically compatible with the virus, in which case it just grants them superhuman powers.

Wesker plans to release Uroboros into the stratosphere, thus achieving [[Meme|complete global saturation]] and infecting the entire world, after which the chosen few would rise to dominate the planet while those who were incompatible with the virus would be deemed unfit to live. This plot is so unbelievably stupid for a [[Tzeentch|cunning sociopath manipulating everyone from the sidelines for his ambitions]] that even Chris calls him out on it.

Anyway, silliness aside, Chris and Sheva embark on a mission to stop Wesker's plot. Standing between them is the infected population of Africa that have been turned into raving lunatics and monsters by the Plagas 2.0 and the new horrors unleashed by the Uroboros virus. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xuXkVzBdJQ Also a giant boulder, which Chris punches into submission], which many fans interpret as either the highest or lowest point of the series that no other event can hope to surpass in either spectrum (those on the side of lowest will probably also add that Chris can frequently be seen shaking his hand in pain from punching zombies in the face earlier in the game).