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The sixth installment of the Resident Evil series, Capcom's Resident Evil 4 revolves Leon Kennedy's mission to rescue Ashley Graham, the United States President's daughter, from a sinister cult bent on world domination. The game's main single player campaign chronicles Kennedy's adventure though a rural part of Europe in search of Graham. His mission reunites him Ada Wong, a secret agent that was previously introduced in Resident Evil 2, who is also a playable character in the game's other singe player campaigns. In addition Kennedy and Wong, there are three playable additional characters, Albert Wesker, Jack Krauser, and HUNK, in the game's "Mercenaries" mini-game. The characters of Resident Evil 4 were designed by Masaki Yamanaka, and voiced by several actors including, Paul Mercier, Carolyn Lawrence, Jim Ward, and Rino Romano.

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[edit] Casting and development

  • "Risky", ~Hiroyuki Kobayashi; Staff, ign.com. "E3 2004: Resident Evil 4 Interview", IGN, 2004, pp. 1-3. Retrieved on 2008-05-27. 
  • Staff, rehorror.net. "Exclusive Interview with Hiroyuki Kobayashi", Resident Evil Horror, 2006-08-10. Retrieved on 2008-05-27. 
  • Make Leon tougher, but also cooler, Animal sounds mixed into audio, Took dialog, and had artists/designers animate the facial expressions in each cinematic. (2005). The Making of Resident Evil 4 [DVD]. Capcom .
  • she's vulnerable, because Leon has to come to her rescue all the time., He's more brawn, perhaps than brain., No, actually. The director… was awesome. He was so good to me. It was just him, at the actual recording, the casting director and the engineer. And then everybody else was on phone patch, and I don't know where they were. He would talk to them over the phone or on his computer.,

Lawrence: No. By the time we were done—because I think we did four sessions to record that game—they probably had a huge library of things of things to work from.

IGN: So you worked on it for essentially 32 hours.

Lawrence: Yeah, over like three or four months.

Carle, Chris. "Babe Interview: Carolyn Lawrence", IGN, 2005-08-02, pp. 2-3. Retrieved on 2008-06-04. 

[edit] Main characters

[edit] Leon Kennedy

Main article: Leon S. Kennedy

Leon Kennedy (voiced by Paul Mercier) is the protagonist and main playable character in Resident Evil 4.[1] After surviving the T-Virus outbreak in Raccoon City during the events of Resident Evil 2, Kennedy is hired to work with the United States Government.[2] During this period of time, Kennedy underwent a period of extensive training and conditioning, turning him from a rookie police officer into an elite government agent.[3] In Resident Evil 4, he is assigned to rescue the United States president’s daughter, Ashley Graham, who is being held captive by a European cult called “Los Illumandos”.[4] His mission pits him against hordes of indoctrinated villagers, mutated abominations, and characters from his past.[5]

[edit] Ada Wong

Main article: Ada Wong

Ada Wong (voiced by Sally Cahill) is an operative for an unknown company, who is attempting to retrieve a sample of Las Plagas.[6] She originally met Kennedy during the events of Resident Evil 2, set six years prior to Resident Evil 4.[7] She saves Kennedy’s life on many occasions and helps him rescue Ashley Graham.[5] Wong waits till the game’s end to reveal her true agenda to Kennedy, and steals the sample of Las Plagas. She provides Kennedy and Graham with a jet ski to escape the destruction of the complex and escapes via helicopter.[5] Wong is a playable character in “Assignment Ada”, a short side mission, and “Separate Ways”, which chronicles her actions in Resident Evil 4’s background.[5]

[edit] Ashley Graham

Ashley Graham (voiced by Carolyn Lawrence) is the president's abducted daughter in Resident Evil 4.[8] A college student living in Massachusetts, Ashley is abducted by a mysterious cult while attempting to return home.[4] She is taken to an undisclosed part of Europe, and held captive in a village inhabited by humans possessed by mind-controlling parasites. The cult’s leader, Osmund Saddler, plans to infect her with the parasitic Las Plagas, to carry out the cult's secret agenda.[9] She is rescued by Kennedy, and works alongside him to thwart the cult’s plans and escape. In addition to being able to receive commands and perform simple tasks, Ashley briefly becomes a playable character for a portion of the game.[5]

[edit] Osmund Saddler

Osmund Saddler (voiced by Michael Gough) is the primary antagonist in Resident Evil 4.[10] He is the leader of “Los Illumandos”, the cult responsible for Ashley Graham's kidnapping.[4] Saddler plans on infecting Graham with a sample of Las Plagas, in hope that she will return home and infect higher ranking members of the United States Government.[9] Saddler then wishes to control them and seize control of the United States, and then the world.[9] He uses unearthed samples of Las Plagas to infect and control villagers and even a local castellan to perform his bidding.[11] However, his plans are foiled by the combined efforts of Kennedy, Wong, and Luis Sera throughout the course of Resident Evil 4. Kennedy, with the assistance of Wong, defeats Saddler near the game's conclusion, and destroys his research and production complex.[5]

[edit] Supporting characters

[edit] Luis Sera

Luis Sera (voiced by Rino Romano) is a European researcher, who is attempting to assist Kennedy and Ada Wong in their efforts against Los Illuminados.[12] He is extremely familiar with village where the game is set, and formerly worked with Osmund Saddler to research and develop the cult’s mind controlling parasites.[13] After realizing Saddler intends to use the parasites for malicious purposes, he begins to attempt to sabotage to cult’s mission. Sera eventually meets Kennedy after both men are captured by infected villagers.[5] He introduces himself as a former policeman from Madrid, who became dissatisfied with his job.[14] Sera continues to assist Kennedy, but is ultimately killed by Saddler before he can present him with a sample of Las Plagas.[5][15]

[edit] Jack Krauser

Jack Krauser (voiced by Jim Ward) is a mercenary hired to do Saddler's bidding.[16] Originally a United States Government operative, Krauser trains with Kennedy, before apparently perishing in a helicopter crash.[17] Krauser is responsible for kidnapping Graham, claiming he committed the act to gain Saddler's trust. He has little interest in Saddler's agenda, and only seeks to recover a sample of Las Plagas for Albert Wesker.[18][19][20] In addition to being a skilled knife fighter and archer, Krauser possesses superhuman speed, stamina, strength, and gained the ability to transform his left arm into a giant mutated claw.[5] He confronts Kennedy twice in the game. After seemingly dying in an explosion, Krauser appears as a boss in the "Assignment: Ada" minigame.[5]

[edit] Ramon Salazar

Ramon Salazar (voiced by Rene Mujica) is the castellan of the castle that serves as a setting for part of the game.[21] He hails from a noble family, who were responsible for originally sealing the Las Plagas beneath the castle's grounds.[11] Years later, Saddler, a cultist who worships Las Plagas, persuades Salazar to unearth the parasites, causing them to spread across the local area.[11] Salazar confronts Kennedy and Graham several times during Resident Evil 4, and mutates into a gigantic monster in his final meeting with Kennedy.[5]

[edit] Bitores Mendez

Bitores Mendez (voiced by Jesse Corti) is a village chief who is ordered to stop Kennedy from finding and extracting Graham.[22] In addition to commanding several possessed villagers, Mendez possesses superhuman strength, as well as a large Las Plagas parasite inside of him. He is also responsible for unintentionally leaving the player several documents regarding the game's plot.[5] He leads the hunt for Leon and Ashley early in the game and leaves various documents around the village.[5]

[edit] Minor characters

  • Ingrdig Hunnigan (voiced by Salli Saffioti) is Kennedy's radio contact throughout the game. In addition to supplying Kennedy with intelligence reports, she also provides the player with general gameplay advice. Kennedy and Hunnighan eventually lose contact with each other.[23]
  • Mike is a helicopter pilot, who is deployed to support Kennedy and extract Graham. He pilots a heavily armed helicopter, and is able to defeat many enemies before being shot down by one of Saddler's minions.[5]
  • The Merchant is a mysterious salesperson, who sells and upgrades various weapons and item. He also operates several shooting galleries throughout the game.[5]

[edit] Reception


Resident Evil 4's characters and story generally received positive commentary from reviews. GameSpot's Greg Kasavin praised the game's voice acting, but claimed that it was detracted by "some uncharacteristically goofy dialogue.[25]" Yahoo! Games' Adam Pavlacka and GameSpot's, Kevin VanOrd, acclaimed Capcom for adding great amounts of detail to the game's characters.[26][27] IGN's Matt Casamassina went into further detail in his review for Resident Evil 4, praising not only the detailed character design, but also the fight choreography and three-dimensional modeling within cinematic sequences.[28] Casamassina also complimented the game's voice actors, especially Paul Mercier, commenting, "For once, the characters are believable because Capcom has hired competent actors to supply their voices. Leon in particular is very well produced.[28]" Diego Luna, a writer for Cerise Magazine, criticized Ashely Graham's character for being to stereotypical, claiming, "[Graham] is a rapid departure from previous women in Resident Evil, who relied on their own guile and skill to survive."[29]

The popularity of the game's characters propelled the release of actions figures based on the likeness of Leon Kennedy and Jack Krauser.[30][31] Furthermore, the merchant, an obscure character from Resident Evil 4, has numerous apperences in media within video game culture. A comical rendition of the merchant appeared in an issue of VG Cats, a popular web comic, in 2005.[32] Additionally, a member of Mega64 attempted to act out the merchant’s character in a public area, by imitating the character’s appearance and voice.[33]


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In addition to earning several awards and nominations in 2005, IGN and Nintendo Power specifically recognized Resident Evil 4's character design, as well as voice acting. Nintendo Power acknowledged the title's voice acting in its 2005 Power Awards, while IGN gave Resident Evil 4 acclaimed the game's "artistic design" award in its annual Game of the Year awards.[34] The International Game Developers Association nominated Resident Evil 4 for their best "visual arts" award,[35] but lost the award to Sony's Shadow of the Colossus.[36]

[edit] References and notes

  1. ^ Dan Birlew, "leon s. kennedy," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 4-5.
  2. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Capcom. PlayStation. (in English). (1999-09-22) “Epilogue: Leon Scott Kennedy is confronted with a man who claims to be a US government agent... He looks at Leon and says, "But you have value. This is a good deal. Make your choice." Without regret or hesitation, Leon closes his eyes and then sharply responds.”
  3. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Leon Kennedy: I received special training via a secret organization working under the direct control of the President.”
  4. ^ a b c Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Leon Kennedy: It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe.”
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Rorie, Matthew. "Resident Evil 4 - Gamespot Game Guide", Gamespot, 2005. Retrieved on 2008-05-14. 
  6. ^ Dan Birlew, "ada wong," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 10.
  7. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Leon Kennedy: Six years had passed since that horrendous incident.”
  8. ^ Dan Birlew, "ashley graham," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 6.
  9. ^ a b c Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Our Mission (File): we must influence the minds of the people who advise the President. After this is done, the rest of the departments will quickly fall under our sway..”
  10. ^ Dan Birlew, "osmund saddler," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 11.
  11. ^ a b c Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Castellan Memo (File): Long ago there once was a religious group that had deep roots in this region called the Los Illuminados. Unjustly however, the first castellan of the castle took away their rights and powers...The reason why I released the Las Plagas from deep under the castle and gave them to Lord Saddler was not only to repay for the sins of my ancestors but I felt certain that the Lord would make better use of this power to help save the world.”
  12. ^ Dan Birlew, "luis sera," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 7.
  13. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Luis Sera: Where abouts of Sera are still unknown. Most likely he's using an old secret passage taught to him by his grand father who used to hunt in this region long ago. Im pretty certain that he's hiding our property somewhere in the forest.”
  14. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Luis Sera: I used to be a cop in Madrid. Now I'm just a good-for-nothing guy, who happens to be quite the ladies' man./ Policia...you put your life on the line, no one really appreciates you enough for it. Being a hero isn't what it's cracked up to be anymore.”
  15. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Luis Sera: It appears he took some vaccines when he stole our "Sample". The vaccines we can do without but we must retriev the sample for it is our life blood.”
  16. ^ Dan Birlew, "jack krauser," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 8.
  17. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Jack Krauser: I died in the crash two years ago. Is that what they told you?”
  18. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Leon Kennedy: What do you want?/ Jack Krauser: Hmph. The sample Saddler developed, that's all.”
  19. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Jack Krauser: Just so we understand each other clearly, I don't trust you. Nor does Wesker. If you try to do anything clever, I will kill you.”
  20. ^ Capcom Production Studio 4. Resident Evil 4. Capcom. PlayStation 2. (in English). (2005-10-25) “Leon Kennedy: You got her involved just for that?! /Jack Krauser: All for Umbrella's sake.”
  21. ^ Dan Birlew, "ramon salazar," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 4-5.
  22. ^ Dan Birlew, "bitores mendez," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 9.
  23. ^ Dan Birlew, "ingrid hunnigan," Resident Evil 4: Bradygames Signature Series Guide (Indianapolis: Pearson Education, 2006), 11.
  24. ^ Pavlacka, Adam. "Resident Evil 4 (PS2)", Yahoo! Games, 2005-10-27. Retrieved on 2008-05-18. 
  25. ^ Kasavin, Greg. "Resident Evil 4 for GameCube Review", GameSpot, 2005-01-10, pp. 1, 3. Retrieved on 2008-05-17. 
  26. ^ Pavlacka, Adam. "Resident Evil 4 (PS2)", Yahoo! Games, 2005-10-27. Retrieved on 2008-05-18. 
  27. ^ VanOrd, Kevin. "Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition", Gamespot, 2007-06-19. Retrieved on 2008-05-18. 
  28. ^ a b Casamassina, Matt. "IGN: Resident Evil 4 Review", IGN, 2005. Retrieved on 2008-05-17. 
  29. ^ Luna, Diego. "Shotgun vs. Skirt: Gender in Resident Evil 4," Cerise Magazine (2007-10). Retrieved on 2008-05-18.
  30. ^ Brookhart, Ryan. "Ryan Brookhart has a Preview of the Hot Toys RESIDENT EVIL 4 Figures", collider.com, 2007-10-20. Retrieved on 2008-05-21. 
  31. ^ Roswell, Daniel. "Resident Evil Figures", levelselect.co.uk, 2007-10-21. Retrieved on 2008-05-21. 
  32. ^ Ramsoomair, Scott. "VG Cats 137 - Medicinal Herbs", VG Cats, 2005. Retrieved on 2008-05-17. 
  33. ^ Mega64. (2006). Mega64: Resident Evil 4 [Web-Series, DVD]. Awful Video.
  34. ^ Staff, ign.com. "The Best of 2005", IGN. Retrieved on 2008-05-28. 
  35. ^ Sinclair, Brendan. "IGDA award nominees announced", Gamespot, 2006-02-27. Retrieved on 2008-05-28. 
  36. ^ Thorsen, Tor (2006). Colossus casts shadow over GDC Awards. GameSpot. Retrieved on July 30, 2006.

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