Resident Evil 5

he game starts in 2009, six years after the destruction of Umbrella and 11 years after the destruction of Raccoon City. Chris Redfield is sent to investigate possible Bio Organic Weapon smuggling in Africa. Upon arriving in the Kijuju Autonomous Zone, Chris meets his partner, Sheva Alomar of the BSAA West African branch. Together, they attempt to rendezvous with the BSAA’s “Alpha Team“, who were attempting to intercept a B.O.W smuggler named Ricardo Irving. By the time Chris arrives in the city, most of the townspeople have already been infected with Type 2 Plagas, although they initially refrain from attacking Chris and Sheva (since they have not yet been ordered to), instead either ignoring them or giving them hostile glares. However, the situation quickly escalates as their local contact is publicly executed and the crowd’s agitator discovers their presence, resulting in an open confrontation between the two agents and crowds of Plaga-infected Majini.

Barely escaping from the Majini, Chris and Sheva make their way across town and find Captain DeChant, the only remaining member of Alpha Team. DeChant is fatally wounded, however, and warns them of Irving’s deception before handing them a data file and succumbing to his injuries. Soon afterward, the two find themselves face-to-face with a bizarre and dangerous creature, seemingly made of leech-like worms, with Chris correctly assuming that it was responsible for the destruction of Alpha Team. They destroy the creature by locking it in an incinerator room and activating the flamethrowers, and then send the newly acquired data to headquarters.

Later, the West African BSAA Delta Team finds and rescues the pair from a crowd of Majini on motorcycles, and Captain Josh Stone, leader of Delta team, gives Chris a memory card containing images of research material. Among these is an image of Chris’s supposedly dead partner and close friend, Jill Valentine. Chris and Sheva continue their search for Irving and eventually corner him in a building beyond the mines, although he escapes with the help of a mysterious hooded figure (later revealed to be a brainwashed Jill) and unleashes a bat-based B.O.W on them. After they defeat the monster, BSAA agent Dave Johnson shows up in a Gambit and escorts them across the savannah (as they are pursued by more Majini on motorcycles) to rendezvous with Delta Team, unaware that they (with the exception of Josh Stone) have already been wiped out by yet another B.O.W.

They arrive to find all of their comrades dead, and Dave himself is crushed underfoot shortly afterward (as an homage to the first appearance of El Gigante, a B.O.W from Resident Evil 4 on which this new B.O.W is based). Chris and Sheva use the machine guns on the back of a Gambit to battle the monster, eventually defeating it. Once they do, they are ordered to leave the area and report back to headquarters, to which Sheva initially agrees. However, Chris is determined to find Jill and elects to continue his mission anyway, prompting Sheva to change her mind and follow him. Using the data they procured from the mines revealing the real location of Irving’s scheduled transaction, they head for an oilfield beyond the marshlands.