Resident Evil Zero: Difference between revisions

[[File:re0_2368.jpg|frame|[[Samuel L. Jackson|I'm]] [[Ascended Meme|tired of these]] [[Precision F-Strike|motherfucking]] [[Zombie Apocalypse|Zombies]] [[Snakes on a Plane|on this]] [[Precision F-Strike|motherfucking]] [[Shout-Out|train]]!]]

 

 

Bravo Team, one half of Raccoon City Police Department's elite STARS unit, is heading into the Arklay Mountains to investigate recent "cannibal murders" before a mechanical failure brings their helicopter down. Bravo Team searches the nearby area and discovers a crashed military police van; it contains the van's murdered drivers and a transport log for former Marine Lieutenant Billy Coen, scheduled to be executed for twenty-three murders. When Bravo Team [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|separates to search for Coen]], new team member Rebecca Chambers finds her way to a broken-down train -- the Ecliptic Express -- in the middle of a forest.

Rebecca's got incredible luck for her first day on the job: she not only encounters Billy, but also finds herself face-to-decaying-face with scores of zombies, who force Rebecca and Billy to work together in order to survive. After escaping the train, Billy and Rebecca find Umbrella's Management Training Facility at the end of the tracks, where their struggle for survival pits them against hordes of Umbrella's nightmarish bio-weaponry and the mysterious Dr. Marcus (who bears his own grudge against Umbrella).

 

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Rebecca gets her cowgirl ensemble from REmake, plus a new leather outfit, Billy gets a suit. Since the closet is located only in the train at the beginning, it becomes impossible to change back outfits after reaching the research facility.

* [[Always Close]]: No matter how quickly you get to Rebecca, she is always saved just in time when she's dangling from a ledge.

* [[Continuity Nod]]:

** Rebecca at one point visits the turntable and the entrance to Birkin's lab from ''[[Resident Evil 2]]''. Of course, this makes literally no geographical sense with the rest of the game.

** A subtle one. Rebecca is unable to operate the piano to get the battery, justifying why she had to practice in the first game.

* [[Creepy Centipedes]]: Centurion, who's big enough to devour people whole.

* [[Death Faked for You]]: {{spoiler|Rebecca allows Billy to escape at the end by falsely reporting his death}}.

* [[Door to Before]]: You don't deposit spare items in the item box anymore. You just drop them on the ground and have to backtrack to pick them up. To make this easier, nearly every stage of the game has shortcuts that let you go back to an earlier part of the game (except the train, obviously).

* [[Easy Mode Mockery]]: Beating the game on easy mode will not earn you the special costumes.

* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Horribly averted with the Eliminators, psychotic albino apes that make very good [[Demonic Spiders]].

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Most of the bosses. At least the scorpion was explained away in a file that says the researchers on the train were studying it, prior to the whole "attack of the killer leeches" thing. It was probably being transported on the train and got broken free during the whole mess.

* [[Handguns]]: As usual, the staple weapon, though the ones Billy and Rebecca start out with are subtly different. Billy's is slightly more powerful and will randomly headshot zombies, and either gun can be upgraded later on for more power and faster firing.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Gruff, short-spoken Billy {{spoiler|is remarkably talented at playing the piano}}.

* [[I Gave My Word]]: Invoked by Billy when saving Rebecca.

* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: Billy, a former Marine who just survived going through a water treatment facility's river with a zombie shark, cannot swim across a three meter gap of water to get a valve handle.

* [[Inventory Management Puzzle]]: Pretty much the whole game. Each character can only hold six slots worth of items, and the series-standard item boxes are nowhere to be found. If you don't know what's coming, you'll probably have to trek back and forth to whatever room you've designated your item room to resupply.

* [[Invisible Backup Band]]: {{spoiler|James Marcus}} inexplicably has instruments playing in the background when he's singing during the opening scene. Later on, he sings with no backup whatsoever.

* [[Puzzle Reset]]: Near the end of the game, there's a puzzle that requires you to push wooden crates to one side and fill the thing with water. Two catches: One, there's a metal one in there too that needs to be dealt with. Two, there's also a grate thing that impedes how you move the blocks. Thank goodness this trope is the case.

* [[Refrigerator Ambush]]: A zombie pops out of the refrigerator in the dining car after you've solved a few puzzles.

* [[Scare Chord]] / [[Psycho Strings]]: Whenever a leech zombie shows up.

* [[Scary Scorpions]]: The first boss, the Stinger, is a scorpion the size of a pickup truck.

 

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