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3''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' is a [[LightGunGame light gun game]] released in 2007 and set in the continuity of the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series. The game consists of four stages ("files") that cover events either depicted or alluded to in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'', ''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil|1}}'', and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' as well as a new storyline set in 2003.
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5Each file does one of two things: it either replays (in a compressed and somewhat modified format) one of the original ''Resident Evil'' games or covers an "untold story" (events not shown during the original games that happened during the games' timeframe).
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7The four files consist of:
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9* "Train Derailment" -- This file adapts the struggle of Billy Coen and Rebecca Chambers through the events of ''[=RE0=]''. It contains the two chapter mini-file "Beginnings", which reveals Albert Wesker's actions after departing the makeshift lab he and William Birkin established.
10* "Mansion Incident" -- This file follows Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine through the events of ''Resident Evil''. It contains the two chapter mini-files "Nightmare" and "Rebirth". ''Nightmare'' -- set [[{{Interquel}} between]] the events of ''[=RE0=]'' and ''[=REmake=]'' -- covers Rebecca and Richard Aiken's attempt to discover fellow survivors of Bravo Team. "Rebirth" -- set in the last minutes of ''[=REmake=]'' -- follows Wesker (awakened from death by Birkin's prototype mutagen) as he fights his way out of the mansion and enters a running battle with the NighInvulnerable Lisa Trevor.
11* "Raccoon's Destruction" -- This file covers, in a vastly abbreviated form, the events of ''[=RE3=]''. It contains two one-chapter mini-files: "Fourth Survivor" adapts the minigame of the same name from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', while "Death's Door" covers Ada Wong's escape from Raccoon City's imminent nuclear annihilation after saving Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield from Mr. X.
12* "Umbrella's End" -- This file, the only one not based on an existing game, occurs in 2003, five years after the destruction of Raccoon City and a year prior to the events of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. It shows Chris and Jill's assault on the last known remaining Umbrella facility -- a disguised oil rig somewhere within Russia's borders -- that has fallen under the command of Sergei Vladimir. The mini-file ''Dark Legacy'' reveals who tipped off the organization Chris and Jill work for to the location of Umbrella's last outpost: Wesker, who uses the assault as a distraction to penetrate the facility for his own purposes.
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14Capcom released a sequel to this game, ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'', in 2009.
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18!!As well as many tropes from ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' as a whole, ''The Umbrella Chronicles'' contains examples of the following tropes:
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20* ApocalypticLog: Contains all of the files from the adapted ''Resident Evil'' games, as well as new files created specifically for the unique stories told in the game.
21* AttackItsWeakPoint: With most bosses, this is the only way to really inflict significant damage or even do any damage at all. Most enemies also have one spot where only pistol shots cause more damage. The most egregious example would be the Ivies - shoot them once with any weapon, then target the center of their flower/mouth to instantly kill them.
22* BackFromTheDead: Implied to have happened with [[spoiler:Wesker making a voice-only cameo]]. Although he doesn't physically appear, he is also implied to be the person watching over the training missions in 2012, [[spoiler:years after his supposed death]].
23* BandageMummy: Ada. This is justified as her side story takes place immediately after her DisneyDeath in ''[=RE2=]''.
24* BigBad: Ozwell E. Spencer is, as ever, TheManBehindTheMan, but it's Sergei who drives the plot.
25* BigNo: Jill yells no in the opening cinematic as she's about to be DevouredByTheHorde until Carlos saves her.
26* BoomHeadshot: Toyed with in the game. Hitting a creature in the head will usually inflict more damage. Proper headshots, as the game considers them, can be inflicted on zombies, and only with the pistol. These require hitting a very small, specific part of the zombie's head, roughly on the center of their forehead; this alone scores a proper headshot, causing the zombie's head to [[YourHeadAsplode erupt in a shower of gore]] and counting towards your total headshots for the end of level score. Hit the zombie anywhere else in the head, and it doesn't count.
27* CanonImmigrant:
28** First appearance of the Red Queen outside the [[Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries live action films]], though she acts a lot differently here.
29** During "Umbrella's End", Chris and Jill run into the laser hallway from the first movie. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IECAbuRI1SA There is no way in hell this is a coincidence.]]
30* CaptainObvious:
31** Several instances, but notably this exchange during the fight with Yawn:
32-->'''Jill:''' Watch out for those fangs. I'll bet they're poisonous!\
33'''Chris:''' Either way, if that thing gets a hold of us, we're screwed!
34** A couple of rounds later into said fight:
35-->'''Chris:''' This thing's tough!\
36'''Jill:''' I know! Try aiming for its mouth!
37* CherryTapping: The handgun against bosses. Woe be to any single player who is unlucky enough to fight Nemesis without an ample supply of ammo for another weapon capable of staggering his attacks, or you may find yourself unable to win at all.
38* ColonelBadass: Sergei is a former Red Army colonel.
39* ContinuityNod: Ada fights the T-0400TP from ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak Outbreak File #2]]'' at the end of the "Death's Door" scenario. Said scenario also depicts how Ada came into possession of her GrapplingHookPistol from ''[=RE4=]''.
40* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Averted more or less. If you manage to find the one-per-level First Aid Spray, when you die, you will immediately be revived at full health to continue fighting. If you die again or never found it, then you have to start the level over from either the beginning or the last checkpoint.
41* DestructibleProjectiles: A rather humorous example: you can deflect globs of acid with your knife.
42* TheDogBitesBack: Lisa Trevor attempts to get revenge on Wesker for experimenting on her. [[ForegoneConclusion She]] [[DownerEnding fails]].
43* DragonInChief: Sergei to Spencer.
44* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Prior to taking Birkin's mutagen, Wesker manages to battle an Ivan, a Mr. X with armor-plating and human intelligence, to a standstill. After he takes the mutagen, he manages to finally kill the NighInvulnerable ImplacableMan Lisa. In Dark Legacy, he takes on ''two'' Ivans at once and destroys them both.
45* EvilerThanThou: Wesker vs. Sergei.
46* FakeDifficulty: Zombies take a lot of damage unless you hit them in the head. Unfortunately, the game defines "head" as "directly between the eyes and nowhere else." If you hit ''anywhere'' else in the head, it doesn't count, ''and'' makes it harder to actually score a proper headshot with subsequent shots, since their head angles away from where you hit it. In Raccoon's Destruction, on the Normal difficulty, zombies are strong enough to survive the blast radius from either of the two grenade launchers that you have at that point, though a direct hit will still usually kill them.
47* FormerRegimePersonnel: As aforementioned, DragonInChief Sergei is a former Red Army colonel.
48* GiantSpider: Tarantulas and funnelwebs in first person. Eep.
49* HamToHamCombat: Wesker vs. Sergei.
50* TheHeavy: Sergei drives almost all the behind-the-scenes events of the game.
51* ICanStillFight: Ada's scenario is about her fighting her way out of the doomed Raccoon City, despite being covered in wounds from barely surviving Leon's story in ''2''.
52* ImplacableMan: Lisa and Nemesis.
53* ImprovisedWeapon: Billy shrugs zombies off by using the one half of the handcuffs he's popped off as a pair of improvised brass knuckles.
54* InjuredPlayerCharacterStage: Ada's scenario deals with her escape after the events of ''Resident Evil 2''. The heavily wounded Ada begins the level in critical condition.
55* LazyBackup: If there's no "player two," your "partner" is perfectly fine with watching you get eaten alive/beaten to death. This is particularly awkward in Rebecca's side scenario, Nightmare. Like the other side scenarios, Nightmare is meant to be a one player scenario. Despite this, she still gets a partner, Richard, who is clearly seen following her with a gun at the checkpoints and yet does nothing until she gets attacked by crows in a cutscene before the boss fight with Yawn.
56* LoopholeAbuse: You can keep replaying the first mission over and over to gain enough star points to upgrade all weapons to maximum, regardless of what rank you obtain. You just have to play through the rest of the game in order to obtain stronger weapons in the first place.
57* MauveShirt: Richard, who in the original game only got a couple lines of dialogue before dying, is upgraded to this in the "Nightmare" mini-chapter, where he gets partnered up with Rebecca.
58* MoreDakka: The automatic weapons tend to be the best guns in the game as while they may not pack much punch per individual bullet, the sheer volume of shots they can pump out can whittle an enemy's health away quickly, even grinding bosses down in sharp volleys. The "spray and pray" approach also works wonders for dealing with leaping targets. [[CaptainObvious When their stats are all upgraded, they're even better.]]
59* MythologyGag: The [=HUNK=] chapter is called "Fourth Survivor", which is the name of the unlockable minigame where he appeared for the first time in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''.
60* NewWorkRecycledGraphics: ''The Umbrella Chronicles'' reuses assets from the [=GameCube=] installments (''[=REmake=]'', ''[=RE0=]'' and ''[=RE4=]''), as well as the ''Outbreak'' spinoffs. This is why the scenarios "Train Derailment" and "Mansion Incident" are relatively faithful adaptations of ''[=RE0=]'' and ''[=REmake=]'', whereas "Raccoon's Destruction" vaguely resembles the actual events of ''[=RE3=]''. Since neither ''[=RE2=]'' nor ''[=RE3=]'' were remade until [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake a decade]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake after]] this game, and the original Platform/{{PlayStation}} versions were too outdated compared to the other titles, "Raccoon's Destruction" instead uses areas from several ''Outbreak'' scenarios, namely "Outbreak", "Underbelly", "Desperate Times" and "Hellfire". This is also the real reason why ''The Umbrella Chronicles'' glosses over the events of ''[=RE2=]'' and only focuses on what happened to Ada and HUNK (since they already had character models in ''[=RE4=]''). Only Carlos and the Nemesis were remade completely for this game.
61* NostalgiaLevel: The Raccoon City segments, using the same maps as ''Outbreak'', tend to bring back memories of said game. As are the mansion and the train segments, which use old parts from their games as well.
62* OneWingedAngel: The hideous Tyrant that Sergei transforms into.
63* PainfullySlowProjectile: The rockets fired from Nemesis' rocket launcher. He fires three missiles at you at a time, and you have to shoot them down to avoid taking damage. Realistically, the rockets would impact before Jill and Carlos even had time to react.
64* PressXToNotDie: Not very common but does happen here and there:
65** Usually, the only way to avoid being hurt by a boss is to shoot it and disrupt its attack. This makes it nearly impossible to beat certain bosses unless you have a weapon capable of disrupting attacks. For example, Nemesis has one attack that can only be avoided by disrupting it, one attack that will continue to choke you to death until you shoot him enough times to break free, and one attack that can be avoided only if you shoot all of the tentacles before they make their way to you. If all you have left is a handgun, it is impossible to survive the fight because of his first two attacks.
66** Almost all chapters have at least one quick time event during a cutscene, which is telegraphed by an inverted-color [[FadeIn fade-in]]. Missing has consequences ranging from heavy damage or having to fight another enemy, to an instant death that even a First Aid Spray can't avoid.
67* RankInflation: As in the original games, the highest rank is S, which supersedes an A.
68* RetCanon: Until this game, Red Queen was created exclusively for the live action movie series. This is the first and only time she has shown up so far in the games, so she does not impact the rest of the story too much.
69* RewardingVandalism: Not only is "Objects Destroyed" one of the factors determining your end of level rank, it's the only way to find the [[ApocalypticLog files]].
70* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: As aforementioned, in Ada scenario, she's in critical condition due to the ''heavy'' injuries she suffered in ''Resident Evil 2''. Despite this, she manages to fight through hordes of zombies, [[spoiler:the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak Tyrant R]]]], and escape the city in one piece.
71* ThrowingYourGunAtTheEnemy: Jill does this to a zombie in the opening cutscene of Raccoon's Destruction.
72* UndyingLoyalty: Displayed throughout by Sergei towards Umbrella as a whole, and Spencer in particular.
73* UnwinnableByDesign: Certain bosses cannot be beaten unless you have another weapon stronger than your handgun that can stagger attacks. If you're unfortunate enough to make it to the end of the level without very much ammo left, you may not be able to win. Even if you get the boss pattern down, they still have certain attacks that cannot be avoided by just shooting them with the handgun.
74* VillainProtagonist: Wesker, since he serves as the narrator and most of the side chapters involve him as the player character.
75* YouHaveFailedMe: {{Subverted|Trope}}. At the beginning of the "Death's Door" scenario, Wesker quickly tells Ada that her failure to procure the G-Virus sample will have consequences for her (namely, leaving her to die in Raccoon City). He only gives her the means and knowledge to escape once she offers Birkin's infected tissue sample to him, succeeding on a technicality:
76--> '''Wesker:''' And you Ada... You have also failed...\
77'''Ada:''' See this? It's a tissue fragment with Birkin's G-Virus.\
78'''Wesker:''' Well, despite some setbacks, you have proven your value to us... It is in our best interest you survive. The G-Virus sample is required.

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