History VideoGame / ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles

* 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[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake after]] this game, and the original UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation}} versions were too outdated compared to the other titles, "Raccoon's Destruction" instead uses areas from several ''Outbreak'' scenarios, namely "Outbreak", "Underbelly", "Desperate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.

* AbortedArc: It's implied either [[spoiler:Wesker's still alive or that he was cloned, as the mysterious Umbrella Executive has Creator/DCDouglas' distinctive Wesker voice]], but with the direction the series took after ''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 7|Biohazard}} '', it's unlikely this plot point will be picked up.

* "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 between the events of ''[=RE0=]'' and ''[=REmake=]'' -- cover 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.

* "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.

-->'''Jill:''' Watch out for those fangs. I'll bet they're poisonous!
-->'''Chris:''' Either way, if that thing gets a hold of us, we're screwed!

-->'''Chris:''' This thing's tough!
-->'''Jill:''' I know! Try aiming for its mouth!

* 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. 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.

* ICanStillFight: Ada's scenario is about her fighting her way out of the doomed Raccoon City, despite being covered in wounds from barely surviving her wounds in Leon's story in ''2''.

* 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 resemble 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 UsefulNotes/{{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 Nemesis were remade completely for this game.

* "Raccoon's Destruction" -- This file covers, in 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.

* AbortedArc:It's implied either [[spoiler:Wesker's still alive or that he was cloned, as the mysterious Umbrella Executive has Creator/DCDouglas' distinctive Wesker voice]], but with the direction the series took after ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard Resident Evil 7]]'', it's unlikely this plot point will be picked up.

** Almost all chapters have at least one quick time event during a cutscene, which is telegraphed by an inverted-color 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.

* ICanStillFight: Ada's scenario is about her fighting her way out of the doomed Raccoon City, despite being covered in wounds from barely surviving her wounds in Leon's story in ''2.''

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilGunSurvivor Gun Survivor]]'' spinoffs.

* VillainProtagonist: Wesker, since he serves as the narrator and most of the side-chapters involve him as the player character.
* YouHaveFailedMe: {{Subverted}}. 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). He only gives her the means and knowledge to escape Raccoon city once she offers Birkin's infected tissue sample to him, succeeding on a technicality.

'''Ada:''' See this? It's a tissue fragment with Birkin's G-virus.\\
'''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.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: {{Subverted}}. 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). He only gives her the means and knowledge to escape Raccoon city once she offers Birkin's infected tissue sample to him, proving she's still useful.