Resident Evil Revelations (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.1 Update

Resident Evil Revelations, a survival horror game that has received critical acclaim, takes players back to the period between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5. It unveils the truth about the T-Abyss virus and features series favorites Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield, as well as their respective BSAA partners, Parker Luciani and Jessica Sherawat. This is a 2012 survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom originally for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. Set shortly after the events of Resident Evil 4, the game follows counter-terrorism agents Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield as they try to uncover the truth behind a bioterrorist organization that plans to infect the Earth’s oceans with a virus.

GAMEPLAY

Resident Evil: Revelations is a survival horror game where the player must complete a series of scenarios collected together into episodes. Although most scenarios involve the player controlling Jill Valentine aboard a ghost ship, some require the player to control other characters in different settings. To progress through a scenario, the player must complete several objectives, ranging from solving puzzles to defeating bosses, collecting keys that open doors to new areas, and reaching a specific point in the game.

As a survival horror game, Revelations emphasizes survival, evasion, and exploration over fast-paced combat by providing the player with limited ammunition, health, and movement speed. The player can run, climb ladders, swim, and dive underwater for a limited period. Up to three firearms can be carried at one time, in addition to grenades and the standard combat knife.

Firearms range from handguns to shotguns, submachine guns, and rifles. The game is played from a third-person perspective but switches into a first-person or over-the-shoulder perspective—depending on which platform the game is played on—when aiming a firearm to shoot enemies. As Valentine, the player can upgrade firearms by finding special items throughout the game.

The player may also perform melee attacks when an enemy has been stunned after being shot at the right time. Ammunition and health items are dispersed throughout the game to help players manage their resources. A device called Genesis can be used to scan and find hidden items in nearby environments. An automap feature is available to help players navigate the game.

In addition to the game’s single-player campaign, Revelations features a more action-oriented mode, called Raid Mode, where one or two players may fight their way through a selection of altered scenarios from the single-player campaign. These usually feature enemies of varying power for the player to defeat. Once a scenario has been completed, the player is rewarded with experience and battle points that can be exchanged for various weapons and items at a store.

Gaining experience and acquiring new equipment allow players to progress to higher and more challenging scenarios. As the player progresses throughout the game, the player may also unlock numerous characters for use in both the single-player campaign and Raid Mode, with each character having a different set of abilities and melee attacks. The game supports a StreetPass functionality that allows different players to exchange items for use in the game.

PLOT

Shortly after the events of Resident Evil 4 in 2004, the bioterrorist organization Il Veltro launched an attack upon the Mediterranean city of Terragrigia, using biological organic weapons (BOWs), in opposition to the city’s development of a solar energy relay system that provides it with power via an orbital satellite. The Federal Bioterrorism Commission (FBC) attempts to maintain control over the city as it is plunged into chaos, but the overwhelming attack prompts FBC director Morgan Lansdale to use the satellite to torch the city in intense solar energy.

FBC agents Parker Luciani and Jessica Sherawat oversee the evacuation of the FBC’s base and escape before Terragrigia is destroyed by solar rays. A year later, Parker and Jessica joined the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA). After BSAA agent Jill Valentine and Parker investigate a possible resurgence of BOWs near the ruins of Terragrigia, BSAA head Clive R. O’Brian reports that their colleagues Chris Redfield and Jessica went missing while investigating rumors of Veltro’s possible reappearance.

The pair are sent to investigate their last known position, which is an abandoned cruise ship called the Queen Zenobia. Searching the ship, the pair are tricked into believing Chris is being held in a room and are rendered unconscious. Meanwhile, Chris and Jessica confirm that Veltro is operating at an airstrip in the mountains. O’Brian then orders the pair to track down Jill and Parker after discovering that he had given them false intel regarding their colleagues, and sends two other BSAA agents, Quint Cetcham and Keith Lumley, to investigate the airstrip.

After awakening in separate rooms, Jill and Parker reunite and encounter FBC agent Raymond Vester, who refuses to explain his presence on the ship. The pair also witness a video from Veltro, who reveals their plan to infect one-fifth of the Earth’s oceans with the T-Abyss—a new strain of T-virus—in retaliation to the destruction of their forces in Terragrigia by the FBC. Chris and Jessica reach the Zenobia and reunite with Jill and Parker. They are confronted by Raymond disguised as a Veltro agent, but Jessica shoots him.

The group separates, with Jill and Chris working together to find the laboratory used to manufacture the T-Abyss aboard the ship. In the laboratory, they neutralize the virus and are confronted by Lansdale via a video uplink, revealing that he worked with Veltro in the Terragrigia panic to increase the FBC’s funding and international influence. Meanwhile, Parker turns his gun on Jessica after he secretly learns from Raymond that she is a mole for the FBC, prompting her to trigger the ship’s self-destruct sequence and escape. Although Jill and Chris escape the ship before its destruction, Parker falls off a catwalk. O’Brian reveals that he had orchestrated the events they had been through to uncover evidence of Lansdale’s involvement in the attack on Terragrigia. Data recovered by Keith and Quint reveals that Lansdale sank a sister ship within the ruins of Terragrigia to eliminate any incriminating evidence.

Lansdale arrests O’Brian, while Jill and Chris go to the sister ship, where they find Veltro’s leader Jack Norman, and learn he survived the solar ray blast by injecting himself with T-Abyss, plotting to expose Lansdale by releasing video footage of his meetings with Veltro, but had grown delusional since then.  The pair defeat Norman and take his video evidence, which they broadcast. As a result, O’Brian is released and the FBC is dissolved. Parker is found a month later in Malta after Raymond was found to have faked his death and saved him from the ship’s destruction. In a post-credits scene, Raymond gives Jessica a sample of the T-Abyss at a cafe. When asked why he saved Parker, he responds, “I have my reasons.”