Resident Evil: Dead Aim
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| Developer(s) | Capcom Production Studio 3 |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom |
| Release date(s) | June 17, 2003 |
| Genre(s) | Light gun |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Mature (M) ELSPA: 15+ |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
| Media | DVD-ROM |
Resident Evil: Dead Aim (Japanese: Gun Survivor 4: Biohazard - Heroes Never Die) is the 4th game in the Gun Survivor series and now includes third person movement, familiar to the main games in the Resident Evil series. This game was exclusive for the PS2 because the contract with Nintendo only included games within the main storyline of the series, whereas Dead Aim is a sidestory.
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[edit] Story
A mid-western town in the United States known as Raccoon City, was destroyed when a biological substance known as the T-virus was leaked from the Arklay Mountains in 1998. The Umbrella Corporation refused to abort the experiments. When a large amount of the virus was stolen on a ship cruiser, Bruce McGivern is sent by the US government to take back the cruiser and the virus.
This game starts onboard the Umbrella-owned ocean liner, "Spencer Rain Cruiser Ship", which has been infected with an experimental T-G Virus stolen from Umbrella's Paris labs by former employee Morpheus Duvall. You take control of Bruce McGivern of the Anti-Umbrella Pursuit Investigation Team, a U.S. government task force with the sole purpose of taking down Umbrella. Unlike the previous two Gun Survivor titles this game features navigation from a third-person perspective as you move your character around to explore the ship and avoid zombies. If you wish to fight the zombies, depressing a button on the controller causes you to go into a first-person perspective shooting mode.
The story also features Fong Ling, Chinese agent working for the MSS (Ministry of State Security), one of China's intelligence agencies. She became known in the intelligence community when she was ordered to hunt down and execute her brother, who happened to be a fierce anti-communist and pro-democracy activist.
She was ordered by her superiors to infiltrate the hijacked vessel in the Atlantic Ocean in order to halt Morpheus' activities and ends up fighting Umbrella's monsters with Bruce McGivern. The second half of the game takes place on another island research lab. The game was later considered as a Resident Evil spinoff.
[edit] Characters
- Bruce McGivern: A member of US STRATCOM (US Strategic Command Forces). Has a tendency of going in guns blazing before thinking about the consequences. This has often left him in many hostile situations, but in the end he always comes out on top, and its usually ontop of bodies noless.
- Fong Ling: A cold as ice agent for the MSS (Ministry of State Security). Professional to the core and doesn't let things like emotion get in the way of accomplishing her mission.
- Morpheus D. Duvall: Former Umbrella R&D (Research and Development). He has a dream of creating a perfect beautiful world, doing this of course means destroying the existing world. Seeing himself as the portrait of beauty he's undergone many plastic surgery procedures to maintain his youthful looks. His group was responsible for the theft of the T-Virus and the hijacking of the Cruiser.
[edit] Trivia
- Almost all the cinematics that resemble realtime cutscenes are Mpeg2 movie files and can be verified as such by running the movie.bin files in any media player.
- Bruce and Fong Ling appear in Namco x Capcom as playable characters, partnered with Regina from the Dino Crisis series and Hsien-Ko from the Darkstalkers series, respectively. The chapter in which they first appear also happens to take place on a cruise liner.
- Some of the interiors of the cruise liner (especially the grand staircase) are based after the first class interior design of R.M.S. Titanic.
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