# Game Resident Evil 7 Biohazard Recap
Macatrens – Released by Capcom in 2017 on the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard would continue the series by returning to its survival horror roots. Directed by Koshi Nakanishi and written by Morimasa Sato and Richard Pearsey, the game would combine the first person style of earlier installments like Resident Evil Survivor with a centralized location reminiscent of the original Resident Evil.
The game was initially in development shortly after Resident Evil 6 in 2013, but the vision was revised to return the series to its roots of exploration and survival. A new game engine was made in consideration for virtual reality, and a subtle tech demo for the game named Kitchen was released in 2014. For story, the game features newcomers Ethan Winters, though there are side chapters and missons in which the player controls newcomers Mia Winters, Zoe Baker and Joe Baker as well as series veteran Chris Redfield.
For gameplay, an emphasis returns on exploration, puzzle solving, and resource management, as the game also does not pause when accessing items. Save rooms, support item crafting and global storage boxes make a return, as does health being a relative status instead of an exact meter. Inventory management has returned to where the player has 12 inventory slots that can be expanded to 20 slots, with which to carry all items, and certain weapons may occupy 2 slots.
The new enemy type is called the Molded, which are humanoid bioweapons formed by new E-Type fungus. Otherwise, new side modes are provided, such as the randomized scenario challenge of Ethan must Die, the time attack challenge of Jack’s 55th Birthday, and expanded story chapters covered here. The story only gets larger from here, so let’s cut it down to size with a RECAPitation.
On October 10th 2014, there is a massive hurricane that tears through Louisiana, during which a ship goes missing and flooding is prominent. Zoe Baker helps her family as her father Jack, former US Marine, rescues a young girl from the storm. He takes her in alongside another woman he rescued, as his wife Marguerite and son Lucas help.
Getting the girl a fresh change of clothes, the girl suddenly snaps awake and tells Zoe she’s taken over as the lights suddenly cut out. She soon finds Lucas knocked out, and her mother is suddenly possessed, spouting that the girl has given her a gift as insects erupt out of her mouth. In a panic, Jack holds her back as he urges Zoe to get some rope, but by the time she returns, Jack now acts bizarrely, mutilating himself to show his devotion to the girl, Eveline.
In a panic, Zoe gets away as Jack snatches Lucas and forces him to accept Eveline’s gift. Retreating to her trailer, Zoe finds the other rescued woman there, who leaves them a note explaining she was assigned to transport particular cargo on the ship, and if they see a little girl near the ship, avoid her at all costs.
If they begin feeling odd, she warns them its likely already too late, but there is a serum that can cure them. However, Eveline is already upon her. The next day, things seem normal as it nothing has happened, buts its clear the family is now under the control of Eveline, and only Zoe can do something about it and her now-insane family.
3 years pass, and in 2017, a man named Ethan suddenly receives a distress message from his wife Mia who’s been missing for 3 years, and found again in Dulvey, Louisiana. Driving up to a mysterious plantation house called the Baker Farm, he spots an odd abandoned van for the web show Sewer Gators that checks out rumored ghost houses.
He spots clues confirming Mia is somewhere here, and enters the strangely quiet home. Investigating, he finds a hidden passageway into the basement where clearly not all is well, and a list of names were all but Mia and a man named Clancy are either dead or turned. He soon finds Mia locked in a cell, and freeing her, she seems confused and panicked, insisting she didn’t send him a message.
Attempting to escape now, Mia suddenly turns crazed, and stabs at the defenseless Ethan, and for a moment, she returns to normal, claiming someone is possessing her. Turning insane again, Ethan is forced to defend himself, lodging an axe into Mia, and as he now attempts to escape himself, a phone suddenly rings nearby, and picking up, its Zoe on the other end as she warns and informs him there is a way out through the attic.
Finding a videotape and watching it, he sees its from Clancy, made in June earlier in the year, wherein he was the cameraman for the Sewer Gators show in which the crew was rehearsing for an episode in this supposedly abandoned house, though they meet a foul end by the hands of someone else lurking in the dark.
With supernatural strength and regeneration, Mia again assaults him, pinning him to the wall with a screwdriver and using a chainsaw to cut off his hand. Finding a gun, he is forced to put her down again, though as soon as he does, a strange man grabs him and knocks him out, welcoming him to the family.
Fading in and out of consciousness, he observes his hand get reattached by Zoe, and wakes up at a dinner table, before Jack, his wife Marguerite, their son Lucas and an emaciated old woman in a wheelchair. Ethan’s resistance to their meals offends them before a doorbell ringing distracts them away, allowing Ethan a window to break free.
Passing by a revealing book from a familiar author, he spots the visitor who happens to be a deputy investigating several missing people in this area. Meeting him in the garage, they barely have a chance to speak, before Jack sneaks up behind the deputy and stabs him through the head with a shovel. Getting inside the car, Ethan tries to run over Jack but Jack somehow keeps getting back up, and even boasts of how unkillable he is with a direct headshot.
Reading an article from a familiar outbreak reporter, he also reads a note about a bad storm in the past that washed up a large ship in the bayou. Finding another videotape, this time from Mia in July, Ethan sees her account of fleeing from Marguerite within the house, seeing a strange little girl, and failing to escape the terror.
Jack now interrupts his attempts to flee, showing off remarkable regeneration, and strange new monsters now form from the pitch black mold colonies littered around the house. With no choice but to confront Jack, Ethan duels him for the key to freedom, and rips and tears past Jack’s abnormal regeneration to edge out a win.
Finding Zoe’s trailer, he hears from Zoe that she, her family, and Mia are all contaminated, and they have no hope of leaving until they can be cleansed of it. There is a serum that can cure them as long they aren’t too far gone, but she doesn’t know where it is, but thinks her mother hid it in the old house part of the property.
Finding the old house waterlogged, derelict and infested with insects courtesy of Marguerite, Ethan finds a flamethrower and uses it to burn his way through, soon finding Mia again, though before they can talk for long, Lucas snatches her away. In pursuit, he finds notes on synthesizing a serum cure, involving parts from specimens of something called D-Series and the help of Zoe.
He clashes with Marguerite, who has mutated into a powerful, grotesque insectile form, and after she is defeated, she calcifies and crumbles immediately. When retrieving a part needed for the serum, he again spots a strange little girl eluding him. After trying to meet up with Zoe to make a cure, Lucas makes the announcement that he’s captured Zoe as well, and wants to have a little fun with Ethan.
Leaving a disturbing trail of clues for Ethan to find, he still runs into the odd old woman in even odder locations. He finds lucas’s room, and learns he’s quite good with machines and traps, and even the house has been renovated by a familiar contract company which explains the odd passageways and locked doors.
He also finds a cassette tape showing the fate of Clancy. After being captured by Jack, he was bound in a kitchen with his coworker, and though his coworker struggled to get him free, he was murdered and decapitated by an insane Mia. After failing to escape, Jack threw him in a basement with growing waves of Molded to attack him, and again Clancy barely survived the night.
Afterwards, he was bound again and made to be turned by Marguerite, playing along and solving the puzzles to open a trap door until he stabbed her in the neck and to fled through a trap door. Unfortunately, it lead to Lucas who captured him and forced him to test his luck in a deadly game of blackjack. Clancy won, much to Lucas’s frustration, and as a result, Clancy was locked in a puzzle room, though unfortunately, solving it was an explosive trap that lead to Clancy’s own immolation and demise.
Lucas sends Ethan another warning that he knows Zoe is helping him make a serum, but he won’t allow it. Not even the safe rooms are safe as boobytraps litter the path to Lucas, as Ethan passes the remains of Clancy, and Lucas locks Ethan into the same trap room that killed Clancy. However, thanks to the clues gained by the unfortunate Clancy, Ethan is able to sidestep the deathtrap and overcome it, and chases Lucas away, gaining the other element of the serum cure.
Beyond, he finds Mia and frees her, and finally comes face to face with Zoe. She takes the ingredients from Ethan and quickly manufactures two serums, but Ethan quickly takes them as a colossal mutated Jack crashes through the pier. Ethan puts down Jack but Jack refuses to stay down. At Zoe’s command, Ethan jams one of the serums into Jack, and it works instantly, halting the molded transformation, calcifying and disintegrating him for good.
However, with only one serum left, Ethan is left with the hard choice to cure either Zoe or Mia. Bitterly, Ethan chooses Mia despite the favor owed to Zoe, and upset, she shouts at them to leave now. Ethan promises to send help but she spits the sentiments back at him. Riding away, both Ethan and Mia feel a bit guitly about getting away without Zoe, but more than that, Ethan urges Mia to remember more about what’s going on.
Unknown to them, Zoe suddenly calcifies over due to Eveline and they soon come across the shipwreck, when their boat is suddenly upended by Eveline’s influence. Calling out to Mia as her mommy, the player now controls Mia as Ethan is snatched away from her and dragged further within the wreck. Memory flashes strike her as she explores within the tanker, named the Annabelle, and Evaline now steps out, urging her to remember.
She guides Mia to watching a videotape, in which Mia learns she was once an operative tasked with transporting Evaline alongside her director named Alan, who made a mistake resulting in Evaline escaping and attacking him and the crew of the ship. Mia was spared only due to an imprinting protocol imbedded in Eveline, so its up to her to stop the little girl, killing her if necessary.
The massive mold cultures that spawn Molded are originally Evaline’s own vomit, though even this much is unusual. Chasing her, Eveline soon begins to call Mia mommy and demand they live in a house together as a family. Alan, who was infected by Evaline, succumbs to her influence and dies, while Mia is captured and infected herself.
She pauses to take time to send Ethan a distress message, apologizing for the past and urging him to move on without her. Afterwards, Evaline completes her attack on the ship, sinking it in the middle of the storm as Mia is knocked out and swept along. As the video ends and Mia remembers again, she refuses to join Evaline, who doesn’t take the rejection well as Mia traverses the ship, eventually finding a bound Ethan.
Ethan, meanwhile, has a subconscious vision of a sane, normal Jack who explains Eveline is behind all of this and the madness started ever since they found her near the wrecked ship in the bayou and she infected all of them. She can control the mind and actions of anyone she infects, and while all she wants is a family of her own, she must be stopped and is the key to stopping all of this.
Jack makes a heartfelt plea for Ethan to save his family, as Ethan now comes to and is freed by Mia, who also urges him to find and kill Eveline as she hands him Eveline’s tissue sample and moves to distract her for as long as possible. Ethan escapes out to the nearby salt mine, where he overhears a military group is sweeping the house to search for and destroy Eveline.
He soon finds lingering traps from Lucas, as well as old messages from two years ago, in which Lucas has been working with a third party, and has been cured of his infection, and is only pretending to be under the influence of Eveline, whom he observes is rapidly aging. He also finds details of what happens when the bacteria, called mold from an E-Series infects a human, wherein the subject gains incredible regenerative abilities, over time becomes under the complete mental control of the E-series infector, and eventually sheds the human form for a more monstrous, albeit more powerful form.
In an abandoned lab in these mines, he find the means to manufacture a necrotoxin specfically for killing any E-Series model, and finds Eveline is one such bioweapon. He then finds more notes, where back in 2000, research began for a bioweapon that could neutralize enemies en masse without direct contact, and better yet, turn those enemies into allies.
Success in the project came with the vicariant evolution fungus also known as the mutamycete. They have been able to inject the mutamycete into human embryos to grow specimens and grade them based on perfection, from the faulty A-series to perfect E-Series. As it turns out, Eveline was the first E-series specimen, able to also secrete the mutamycete at will, though they unable to completely understand how she can achieve complete mental control of those she infects.
The first stage of her control is when the subject begins to see and hear hallucinations of Eveline, and over time, more extreme demands like self-mutilation or attacking others can be achieved. Eveline also has the ability to form organisms from the mold, thus why the beasts are called the Molded, referring to both how they are made and what they are made from.
However, one thing they note is Eveline is obsessed with the notion of family, forcing subjects to pretend to be her parents, though the reason why is still unknown. Finding the mines lead right back into the cellar of the plantation, Ethan fights through the mind tricks of Eveline, eventually cornering her and injecting her with the E-Necrotoxin.
It turns out the old woman in the wheel chair he’s seen harmlessly throughout the house was actually a rapidly aged Eveline this whole time, and while it seemingly kills her, she melts into a massive pile of mold that then turns into a giant headed monster to attack Ethan one last time. She flings him out of the house, and while he’s down on his back, he observes a helicopter fly overhead and fends off Eveline with everything he has.
The helicopter drops him a special weapon and urges him to use it, and firing everything into Eveline, Ethan is able to finally destroy the nightmare for good. Rappeling down, the man who tossed him the weapon helps him up, introducing himself as Chris Redfield. The team has also rescued Mia, who is getting medical attention, as Ethan reflects on what a terror of a night its been.
He understands the Baker family was a victim too, as it was all really Eveline’s fault, and this team, belonging to a blue-logoed Umbrella Corporation are here to clean up the mess. The mission isn’t over yet for BSAA Member Chris Redfield, as he is now assisting the reborn Umbrella Company who has reformed into a private military group who also fights bioterrorism.
THe current mission is Operation: Lurking Fear where their job is to capture Lucas Baker. After securing Ethan, pursuing Lucas is next as he may prove a lead to a group called the Connections. The Connections is a crime organization that produces and sells bioweapons on the black market, including the E-Series bioweapon.
As the player now controls the hard-punching Chris, intel suggests Lucas is still running experiments with the E-type mutamycete. Falling into a trap by Lucas, Lucas slaps an explosive bracelet onto Chris and gets away as he starts flooding the tunnels with mutamycete. Chris speaks to his operator, still skeptical about working with Umbrella, and the operator understands, explaining many members were part of the Umbrella Corps even before re-incorporating into a PMC.
Since 2007, they deliberately use the name as a way to publically atone for the bioterrorism commited with it in the past, and now fight it alongside groups like the BSAA. As Lucas continues to toy with Chris, he encounters a new type of Molded that regenerates so fast conventional weapons are useless against it.
Equipping powerful but limited mycetotoxin rounds, called ramrods, the playing field is leveled a bit, but Lucas has none of it as he kills another of Chris’s teammates right in front of him and triggers his own explosive. Hurrying to freeze the explosive in order to sabotage it, Chris eludes Lucas’s deathtraps and ambushes again, as he enters Lucas’s hidden labs.
Within, he learns Lucas was assigned to observe and report on Eveline’s condition, and was also assigned as head researcher for E-Series experimentation as well. Lucas was also using the Connection’s resources, fueling his own research and killing off their researchers. Cornering him, Chris easily overpowers Lucas, but then Lucas’s infection goes critical, mutating him into a Tyrant-like Molded.
The veteran but not a hero is tested against this new biohazard, but Chris’s experience wins out in the end, ending Lucas and his transfer of data to the connections for good. As he leaves, he looks over a picture of the Baker family, but is soon called back to camp. Rewinding back right after Zoe was calcified, we now see deep in the swamp, Joe Baker, brother to Jack Baker, come across two members of Blue Umbrella, who have discovered the calcified remains of Zoe.
Acting with his fists first, the hard-punching Joe knocks out both soldiers and takes Zoe back with him home. Zoe is alive and breathing but not well, and one of the soldiers explains to an enraged Joe that she is dying but they have the cure back at their camp. Joe is distrustful since monsters have cropped up, but his rooted toughness has enabled him to adapt to the environment instead.
With no guns except for the ones behind his strong punches, Joe makes way for the soldiers camp, sneaking, hunting, and breaking all molded and infected alligators in his way. He retreives the cure, only to return and find his house suddenly on fire. Worse yet, the cure he retrieved isn’t enough and he needs a full dose that he can only find back at their base.
THe solider offers to guide him, but suddenly a large monster rips through the wall, grabs the soldier and rips him in half. Taking Zoe to safety, Joe isn’t amused by the turn of events, and as he continues his search, the swamp man from before confronts him and the two duel in a round of fisticuffs. Knocking the monster down but not out, he continues to perform a manual override for synthesizing a full cure for Zoe.
The swamp man returns again, and Joe again outfights the beast in a pit fight, suplexing his way to victory and tearing off its head. However, the monster somehow regenerates and snatches Zoe away from Joe and makes off with her, forcing him to continue his search. Following his trail past a graveyard, Joe encounters the Swamp man again, tearing off the monster’s hood to reveal his brother Jack underneath.
Shocked, Joe is caught off guard and knocked out and while Jack attempts to drown him, Joe ends up surviving the swamp too. Passing by a Blue Umbrella camp, Joe learns Jack has returned to the estate, and discovers a powerglove gauntlet able to greatly multiply his strength and even punch past metal doors.
He finds the team that encountered Jack slaughtered, and learns Jack’s robust regeneration unique to him is partly what has kept him alive, but Joe now seeks to end things. Once again, he locates Zoe and Jack isn’t far off, and as they fight, Joe tries one last time to beat some sense back into his brother, reminding him how Jack never won in any fight they had.
As the sun finally rises on the dawn of a new day, Joe puts his final farewell to his brother into one punch, striking with such force the swamp man calcifies over once and for all. Wasting no time and injecting Zoe with the full cure, Chris now comes in after dealing with Lucas, and offers his help to Zoe.
As the game ends, Zoe is checked out and will be alright, and in the quiet, she laments how everyday for the last 3 years was a struggle to survive, and Joe points out that deep down, despite their last days, her family, especially Jack, still loved her. Chris then comes in with a phone call for Zoe, and its Ethan, relieved they both made it out, and reminding her he kept his promise to send help.