State of Resident Evil

A great series once started out in the year of 1996, a game called Resident Evil. The game won over the hearts of millions worldwide with cheesy voice acting and its bloody graphics. Although the blood was only pixels of red, Capcom had redone the game to make it spill out green blood. Tons of reedits were done to the game to further the population of the series. Resident Evil: Director's Cut busted out on the scene and helped recreate the game with many improvements and fan service. The director's cut featured a small look into Resident Evil 2, the game that would put Capcom straight on the map for survival horror.

Resident Evil 2 is still a fan favorite along with Resident Evil 3, Coder Veronica, and Resident Evil 4, the series had made its way around even spawning a spin off series out of Gun Survivor and Outbreak. Resident Evil 5 hit American shores on both the Xbox360 and Playstation 3 in early 2009. Capcom had stated that the story of Chris will end and come full circle. Granted it did, but sadly not the way fans would have liked it. Many complained that the game was so much filler and the characters didn't have enough background in the main story. However, players are forced to read about their backgrounds and learn from it. It helps out new players but the old school players would have loved a cut scene much like Wesker's Report.

So we end the era of ECW Chris and Jill's Sandwiches, but this leaves the story open for someone else to grab the spotlight of our roid infested character. Here are some basic ideas I have.

Idea #1. Leon gets control of the series and is the next main character. As much as Capcom loves Chris, the fans, mostly girls, enjoy the Leon character a lot so it would make sense. Now as far as plot goes, the only few things we have in Leon's storyline is Sherry and Ada and Claire. With Wesker's departing this puts Ada in a strange place seeing as she isn't controlled by Wesker anymore, so is she freelance now? Also with Sherry, was that plot suddenly erased from existance? As far as Claire is concerned, with the movie in mind, I don't think they will be seeing each other as much not with Leon's US Government job. That's some serious overtime there. Maybe some more occult village for Leon to go after.

Idea #2. Ada getting her own game. Maybe her grabbing more samples of the viruses Wesker left behind. Ada persuiting Leon a bit, and perhaps getting a kiss lol.

Idea #3. Please bring back Billy. Billy has a lot of storyline to be fleshed out with. I thought Billy would make a cameo in RE5 due to him being in Africa once before but sadly that didn't come to pass. We still have no idea where he is living or where he has hidden. I would hope that they do something with the character.

Idea #4. Rebecca is still out there. I dunno how much else she could get in storywise but the people seem to like her a bit, maybe stick her with a new group of commandos. You know the ones who won't die quickly. But with her passion for herbs and her experience with the Spencer Mansion, she is likely to become an agile fighter.

Idea #5. Barry Burton...oh wait I remember when they made a game with him as the main character....yeah....

Idea #6 Claire still may have some ummph in the series. Steve is apparently alive so I wonder when they will get to this? Probably never but you never know.

Idea #7. Eliza Walker. I said it, would of been a cool character but that idea was transformed into Claire. Would be nice to see her being reused and recreated again. (do it for me and the fanboys of her lol).

Idea #8. A new person....seriously, it would get new fans into the series as well as getting some supporting characters from the older games and blam, ya got a classic in the making.

Also, bringing back the infected Leon/castle storyline. I think that would work with anybody new or old.

Any if not all options are on the table for the series to move foward. As long as the gameplay and the story are good, the Resident Evil series will stay on for a while.