Hello there everyone!

Welcome back to Surviving the Horror. In this month's episode, Josh and Colin are delving back into the world of Resident Evil with the community voted game of Resident Evil: Code Veronica X. Originally meant to be the true sequel and follow up to Resident Evil 2, Code Veronica later became a non-numbered title due to development time and another project moving more quickly (this project would later become Resident Evil 3: Nemesis). Code Veronica follows the story of Claire Redfield, still searching for her brother Chris following the events of Resident Evil 2. Her journeys take her to the Umbrella labs in Paris, to Rockfort Island, and even to Antarctica, battling vicious BOWs, solving elaborate puzzles, and uncovering shocking truths about the founding of Umbrella and the storied and tragic family of the Ashfords. Claire's story is full of all the fantastic things that we've come to expect from the Resident Evil franchise, including tank controls of course, but it wasn't until this playthrough that both Colin and Josh realized how much of the later games were set up and based on interactions between characters that occur here in Code Veronica X. This is truly an underrated and underplayed game in the Resident Evil franchise that we think is well worth your time and effort.

Initially released on the Sega Dreamcast in 2001, Code Veronica later received ports for both the PS2 and the GameCube. The version that both Josh and Colin are playing is a port of the PS2 version, played through the PS5, and while the version might have some technical inferiority when compared with the Xbox 360 port of the game, that doesn't stop the boys from having a blast and gushing about the detail and lore that this title provides.

Thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next month when we talk about Dead Space 2!