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Oneof the most shocking moments in Resident Evil 7 came at the very end of the game, when protagonist Ethan Winters is saved by a group of Umbrella agents. It's at this point that one of the Umbrella operatives reveals himself to be none other than Chris Redfield, leaving fans to wonder why the longtime series hero is now working with the evil company that he worked hard to bring down over the course of multiple games. With the release of the new Resident Evil 7 Not A Hero DLC, we now know why Chris is working with Umbrella.

Those that want to experience the Not A Hero DLC for themselves should know that this article will have spoilers, but anyone just curious about why Chris is now working with Umbrella can read on. As players go through the DLC, they discover that Chris is actually wary himself about working with Umbrella, and he is not actually part of the organization. On the contrary, Redfield is still a member of the BSAA, but he has been contracted by Umbrella to handle this situation in Louisiana.

Umbrella is no longer the evil pharmaceutical company that created the T-Virus and caused numerous zombie outbreaks. Since the company was dismantled, some of its former employees decided to recreate it as a private military company with the goal of righting Umbrella's wrongs. This apparently occurred in 2007, meaning a "good" version of Umbrella has existed for at least 10 years in the Resident Evil universe.

Despite this version of Umbrella having existed for so long, Chris Redfield still doesn't trust them. He makes this clear to the person he is communicating with throughout the mission, but by the end of the DLC, it seems Chris has a change of heart as his Umbrella helper does help him survive the ordeal.

Having a benevolent version of Umbrella is a new twist for the Resident Evil series, and it will be interesting to see how it plays out in upcoming games. However, if this version of Umbrella has existed since 2007 as revealed in this DLC, it's strange that it hasn't been brought up in past games like Resident Evil 5 and 6, which take place in 2009 and 2013, respectively.

Regardless of potential plot holes, it's clear by the Not A Hero DLC that this new Umbrella will play a big role in the series moving forward. Meanwhile, the new group Connection seems to be taking Umbrella's place as the evil corporation creating biological weapons, but we'll have to wait for future games like Resident Evil 8 to know for sure.

"A friend of mine had found a flyer advertising some kind of job fair-slash-buffet party Capcom was holding at the Hilton and he gave it to me because he knew I liked games. I went mainly because I wanted to eat at the Hilton for free, but once I started talking to Capcom people, really getting in depth about the work they do, I thought it sounded pretty neat. So I applied to both Capcom and Nintendo, and it turned out the second round of interviews for both companies were held on the same day, and I chose Capcom. It's likely for the better because I probably never had a chance with Nintendo."[3]

His application was rejected at the screening process, then approved one week later.[5] He joined Capcom in 1990 as a junior game designer,[5] Mikami and fellow new hires were sent to a warehouse and ordered to "think hard about game design", then left unsupervised for the entire day. After a few months of just doing that, he was suddenly placed on a team and given a leadership position despite knowing nothing about game development.[6]

His first title, a quiz game for the Game Boy titled Capcom Quiz: Hatena? no Daibōken, was made in three months.[5] His three subsequent releases were all based on Disney-licensed properties:[5] Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the Game Boy, and Aladdin and Goof Troop for the Super NES.[7] Aladdin was his first hit, selling over 1.75 million units worldwide.[5][8] Mikami also worked on Super Lap, an unreleased F1 racing game for the Game Boy that was scheduled to be released in 1992, but was canceled after eight months of development.[citation needed]

Mikami learned by observing his seniors; whenever he showed them his game design documents, they called his work "uninteresting" without giving any advice. He found this environment comfortable, since it engendered independence and freedom of thought. To Mikami, the art of game making was instilled in him by Tokuro Fujiwara.[6]

After the release of Goof Troop, Mikami began development in 1993 of a horror-themed adventure game for the PlayStation set in a haunted mansion, called Resident Evil,[9] originally conceived as a remake of Sweet Home (an earlier Famicom game by Capcom based on the Japanese horror film of the same name).[10] Sweet Home director Fujiwara entrusted Mikami, who was initially reluctant because he hated "being scared", with the project, because he "understood what's frightening."[11] Mikami said that Resident Evil was a response to his disappointment with Zombi 2, a gory 1979 film by Italian director Lucio Fulci; Mikami was determined to make a game with none of the failings of the movie. The resulting game became Biohazard, an action-adventure game which combined 3D polygonal characters and objects with pre-rendered backgrounds and featured zombies (among other monsters) heavily influenced by George A. Romero's Dead films.[12] The game was retitled Resident Evil during its English localization under Capcom USA's suggestion and was released in Japan and North America on March 22, 1996, and became one of the PlayStation's first successful titles. It was the first game to be dubbed a survival horror, a term Capcom coined to promote the game.[13] It was later ported to the Sega Saturn.[14]

Resident Evil was considered the defining title for survival horror games and was responsible for popularizing the genre. Its control scheme becoming a staple of the genre, and future titles would imitate its challenge of rationing highly limited resources and items.[15] The game's commercial success is credited with helping the PlayStation become the dominant game console,[16] and also led to a series of Resident Evil films. Mikami had creative control over the screenplay and script of the first movie being dubbed a creative consultant. They had Mikami in this position to make sure fans of the games would be happy. He then dropped out of the later movies because he believed that the movies were heading in the wrong direction. Many games have tried to replicate the successful formula seen in Resident Evil, and every subsequent survival horror game has arguably taken a stance in relation to it.[17]

The success of Resident Evil was shortly followed by an internal restructuring at Capcom, whose development departments were turned into a plurality of numbered divisions, and a number of game directors promoted as their leaders. The staff behind Resident Evil became Capcom Production Studio 4, with Mikami appointed as its general manager, changing his focus towards being a producer. He considers the eight years spent in this position as the nadir of his career: he could not spend all his time on creative aspects and felt that he missed out on the best phase of his life.[6] In his new role, he oversaw the development of Resident Evil's sequel, Resident Evil 2, which he intended to tap into the classic notion of horror as "the ordinary made strange," thus rather than setting the game in a creepy mansion no one would visit, he wanted to use familiar urban settings transformed by the chaos of a viral outbreak. The game sold over five million copies, proving the popularity of survival horror. Following its release in 1998, he oversaw the development of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and also directed another survival horror title Dino Crisis,[18] both of which released in 1999.[19]

In 2001, an expanded version of Code: Veronica was released for the Dreamcast exclusively in Japan, alongside a PlayStation 2 port that was released worldwide. This version of the game, titled Biohazard - Code: Veronica Complete Edition in Japan and Resident Evil - Code: Veronica X abroad, added ten minutes of new cutscenes not in the original release. The PS2 version, which initially came packaged with a trial version of Devil May Cry, went on to sell 1,400,000 units, according to Capcom's sales data for March 2006.[22] In 2001, in what was to be one of his most controversial business decisions, Mikami formed an exclusivity agreement with Nintendo in which the main Resident Evil games would be sold only for the GameCube. The GameCube would receive, in addition to ports of previous PlayStation and Dreamcast installments, three new numbered entries in the series: a remake of the original Resident Evil, Resident Evil Zero, and Resident Evil 4.[23][24] Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero were both released in 2002.[25][26][27]

The remake of Resident Evil was released in Japan on the sixth anniversary of the release of the original, on March 22, 2002. The remake was billed as the definitive version of the game, selling 490,000 copies in the US and 360,000 copies in Europe. In total, Resident Evil managed to sell 1,240,000 units during its first year of release. The remake's sales data was made public by Capcom during its Financial Review Report for 2002.[28]

On November 12, 2002, Resident Evil Zero was released. Gaming site gamefront.de reported that 138,855 copies of the game were sold on its first day of release. Capcom expected Resident Evil Zero to sell 1.42 million copies, but sold only 1.12 million.[29] The fact that Resident Evil Zero did not match or surpass the remake's sales figures, spread fear among Capcom executives and share holders. They worried that Resident Evil 4 would not sell well enough on GameCube.[citation needed]

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