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Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is an on-rails light gun shooter video game developed by Capcom and Cavia as part of the Resident Evil series. The game exposes the Umbrella Corporation's meddling…

70 13 November 2007

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is a shooter developed by Cavia, released 13 November 2007 on Wii U, PlayStation 3 and Wii.

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What Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is a shooter game developed by Cavia and released in 2007. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Wii U, PlayStation 3 and Wii.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story follows the downfall of the bioengineering pharmaceutical company Umbrella Corporation by revisiting scenarios of earlier games in the series, such as Resident Evil Zero, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, divided over four main chapters with ten scenarios in total.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the Resident Evil series

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is the 43rd of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Biohazard The Episodes in 2007. Its critic score of 70 is 4 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.

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How it was received

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 69, across 71 votes.

What it launched against

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles launched on 13 November 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Cheats and codes

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When did Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles come out?
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles was released on 13 November 2007 for Wii U, PlayStation 3 and Wii.

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