Umbrella Sciences website opens

[shanemurphy]

I can imagine maybe 1 or 2 more competitions, the next contest to maybe win a console and a copy of the game.

But perhaps as the clues get on and TGS comes around we will see some new levels/trailers/B.O.Ws and reveals.

But I gotta say this is one kickass marketing campaign.

[djepic112]

Will we see Sherry in this game? All the promo material reminds me too much of the stuff for RE: Darkside Chronicles. Raccoon City is uninteresting to me unless we get a remake of RE2.

[Bianca]

The psych evaluation for Birkin is fucking fantastic. I love this. I hope the birkinfiles site is updated several more times throughout this promotion.

[Stars_g36]

Looks to be for Operation Raccoon City on the bottom of the website.

Edit:

lol maybe I should read everyone's comments first... Anyways looks like a pretty cool promotion they are doing for the game.

[Xander Ashford]

Really, really cool marketing! I wish the links on the Umbrella site actually worked.. I wanted to read who won this year's Ashford awards!

I know! I really wanted to read that article as well.

That is a fairly cool site minus the creepy baby. I never associate Umbrella with toothless babies (And yes, I know they aren't going to put a zombie on a pharmaceutical site, but you know what I mean).

[Kei_M]

I hope some of these files are relevant to the game...I would love to see Annette have a role in the game!

[RetroRain]

Their marketing would be better if they actually showed stuff from Operation Raccoon City. All I really see are a few pointless websites, to be honest with you.

If you want to go through each site and read and do everything thats on them, go ahead, but I don't see why you would want to waste your time, I'm certainly not.

[shanemurphy]

RetroRain, this is much better marketing for us old school fans, would you rather them showing the same old screens or silly little adverts or live action episodes?

This marketing is done in the form of a fight against Umbrella and personal Umbrella information, I think I speak for most old school fans when I say reading little documents on characters like William Birkin is much more interesting to us then little live action episodes or something similar.

And that letter from Annette is just another example of this cool little waste our time things to look at.

[kevstah2004]

What do these people have in common?

Tenkamenin
Hitler
LPC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVe1NkQA78

[Bianca]

RetroRain, this is much better marketing for us old school fans, would you rather them showing the same old screens or silly little adverts or live action episodes?

This marketing is done in the form of a fight against Umbrella and personal Umbrella information, I think I speak for most old school fans when I say reading little documents on characters like William Birkin is much more interesting to us then little live action episodes or something similar.

And that letter from Annette is just another example of this cool little waste our time things to look at.

I completely agree. As someone who had very little interest in Operation: Raccoon City to begin with, this promotion has at least piqued my curiosity. The reasonable side of me has plenty of doubts that the game will actually delve further into all this wonderful nostalgia, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy these sites for what they're worth.

Any history of Umbrella that is pre-Raccoon City disaster will always, always make my heart pitter-patter.

[rehunk88]

i just think doing this is pretty pointless because we already know what this game is all about so its not really a secret or anything more waist of time really

just give us more gameplay videos ( from diffrend areas) and
a new trailer i dont want some shit site i cant use to anything.

[News Bot]

Will we see Sherry in this game? All the promo material reminds me too much of the stuff for RE: Darkside Chronicles. Raccoon City is uninteresting to me unless we get a remake of RE2.

Raccoon City is uninteresting if you do get a remake of BH2 since very little of the city is actually explored in that title.

[RetroRain]

i just think doing this is pretty pointless because we already know what this game is all about so its not really a secret or anything more waist of time really

just give us more gameplay videos ( from diffrend areas) and
a new trailer i dont want some shit site i cant use to anything.

Exactly.

shanemurphy, I don't see how this kind of marketing is better for old-school fans, or even new fans for that matter. I never cared for the lame live action advertising, but all they need to do is show more screenshots and videos of gameplay. It really is that simple. They're wasting their time with this nonsense.

These websites are pointless.

[News Bot]

Exactly.

shanemurphy, I don't see how this kind of marketing is better for old-school fans, or even new fans for that matter. I never cared for the lame live action advertising, but all they need to do is show more screenshots and videos of gameplay. It really is that simple. They're wasting their time with this nonsense.

These websites are pointless.

They're good for people who care about the plot. Stuff like Birkin's journal, Annette's letter and the psychology reports shed some light on the characters and their motivations.

Also, I would comment on Annette's letter if I could read the fucking thing.

[RetroRain]

They're good for people who care about the plot. Stuff like Birkin's journal, Annette's letter and the psychology reports shed some light on the characters and their motivations.

Also, I would comment on Annette's letter if I could read the fucking thing.

But you're gonna learn about the plot when you play the damn game! And 99% of the time, if it's not in the game, it's not considered "cannon".

Like when the makers of Saw the videogame saying that the game is cannon to the movies because of the way they made the game, but the producers said its best to keep them separate. Unless it's in the movie, it's not really cannon. Which is why I found those stupid Star Wars videogames pointless, with Darth Vader taking an apprentice or some stupid shit. If you really want to fill in the gap between Episode III and IV, just make another movie, and don't give it a number. Just give it a title.

Bottom line is, if it's not in the game, I don't care about it. Creators are always changing the plots and retconning stories to make more sequels. I don't care what it says about Birkin on that website. It's really meaningless, much like those stupid twitter comments about Leon talking about his first day on the job, as a way of promoting Darkside Chronicles. It's just pure lame-ness.

Give me more screenshots and videos, something that, what do you know--- actually PROMOTES the damn game!

[Alkar]

They're good for people who care about the plot. Stuff like Birkin's journal, Annette's letter and the psychology reports shed some light on the characters and their motivations.

Also, I would comment on Annette's letter if I could read the fucking thing.

Scroll down on that page lol.

[Darkmoon]

Yeah...in RE land, it's actually the opposite way around. Half of the plot is not in the games, and can only be found by buying and translating guides from Japan. So wish I was joking.

[RetroRain]

Well, whatever it is, it is. I'm just saying that the game is the end result. I don't really care about stuff outside the game. If the game is good enough, then let the game speak for itself. If not, then they didn't do a very good job then did they?

But as for Resident Evil, I don't really honestly care about the story anymore. I think they did too good of a job butchering it. I'm only in it for the gameplay now. In fact, they could leave the story out completely, and I'd be fine with it.

I just wish they would show more screens and videos instead of showing us these websites. Hey, if you guys like this kind of marketing, that's fine. If that's what makes you happy, then that's cool. I personally don't care for it.

[rehunk88]

Yeah Because who cared about the live action videos from re 5 really ?
they had nothing to do with the game itself
it made you think the game was gonna be so scary with the line ( i dont remember it)

fear something XD

and you dident see what you wanted ( and that is gameplay)
its just live action shit you cant use for anything .. thats not what i want ..
what i want is the gameitself if i want to to see live action i will watch the resident evil movies ( witch i never will again XD)

[Alexia_Ashford]

FEAR YOU CAN'T FORGET!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGH!!!

BIG BLACK BLOBS OF WORMS WITH ORANGE BLOBS ON SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!

(Loljks)