It's certainly nice to have a little bit of a backstory on the previous games - especially the first one (which you can now get on the PSN Store), but really, the story doesn't depend on TOO much on the past games like MGS4 did, and the situations are easy to infer things on.
[QUOTE="BenderUnit22"]Wait, RE5 had a story?hazelnutman
Remember dude? There's that thing where you had to go on a boat and drive stuff. Deep.Oh yeah, and that underground Aztec city. It's amazing how much use Capcom got out of the African setting
I have played every Resident Evil since the original launched for the PSX, and can safely tell you that you do not need to know the entire back story to pick up RE5. The Resident Evil series doesn't end their game with cliff-hangers and pick back up in the next game, they just continue to provide different stories involving different characters and the umbrella corporation (although some characters return in different games). If you have played previous games you will catch things that a first time Resident Evil player will not, but those things are minor and if you don't know they arethere you will not miss anything.
If you really wanted to catch yourself up on what has heppened in previous gamesI am sure there are write ups on Wikipedia.
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