Code Veronica

Code: Veronica is the first Resident Evil game in the main series to use 3D backgrounds instead of the traditional pre-rendered ones. Despite this, the camera does not follow the player around, but swings between semi-fixed angles. However, two weapons in the game can be fired from the character's point of view. First person view mode is also available in the game's unlockable Battle Game minigame.

Code: Veronica features two protagonists, Claire Redfield and her brother Chris. Code: Veronica forces players to take control of Claire for the first half of the game and then start the second half with Chris. All of Claire's weapons and items left in the item box are available for Chris to pick up in his half of the game. In addition, a third character, Steve Burnside, is briefly playable during the game's first half and Claire herself is playable during a short portion of Chris' scenario.

The game is set three months after the destruction of Racoon city, it begins with Claire Redfield raiding an Umbrella Corporation facility in Paris after having left Leon and Sherry in search of her lost brother Chris Redfield. During the infiltration she is captured and imprisoned on Rockfort Island. Soon after arriving, a man named Rodrigo Juan Raval releases her from her cell, since she is not much of a threat considering the recent release of the T-Virus on Rockfort. Trying to escape from the T-virus contaminated island, Claire teams up with inmate Steve Burnside, at the same time being confronted with the island's commander Alfred Ashford. Soon after meeting Steve, Claire is attacked by a zombie that is revealed to be Steve's father, whom he must kill to save Claire. Meanwhile, Albert Wesker is on a mission of his own to retrieve a sample of the T-Veronica virus developed by Alfred's presumed to be dead twin sister Alexia. His unit is also responsible for the outbreak of the T-virus on Rockfort Island.

The main hero Chris Redfield arrives on Rockfort after having been contacted by Leon. He learns from Rodrigo Juan Raval that Claire is long gone. Rodrigo is soon killed afterwards by a giant worm. Searching around Rockfort, Chris has an encounter with Wesker. Just as his old superior wants to finish him off, Alexia appears on a screen laughing. Stunned by Alexia's being still alive, Wesker changes his mind and returns to the Antarctic. Chris eventually finds his way there, too, and is reunited with Claire who sets out to find Steve. As she locates him, she discovers Alexia conducted an experiment with him, injecting Steve with the T-Veronica virus. Steve mutates into a reptilian monster and tries to kill Claire who escapes to a prison cell, where she is attacked by another of Alexia's tentacles. Still in his mutated form, Steve breaks through the bars using his immense strength and rescues Claire. The tentacle drives into his chest and retreats. Steve mutates back to his human form and dies. However, before he dies, he professes his love for Claire.

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