Now before the haters jump on me, I really, really want OPR to succeed and prove to be a solid canon entry into the franchise. I like the look of it and it sure looks fun to play but...

*They have changed the date of Hunk's mission and the t-Virus spill from September 23rd to September 20th. Now this automatically messes up the entire Outbreak timeline given the facts and dates we already know.
*There is no such thing as a T02 for the Nemesis and the source for this is a fake report in a Chinese guidebook.
*Nemesis is not based on a condemned man, it was based on a T-103. Many basic sources including Resident Evil Archives state this.
*Slant Six say the game can be canon if you want it to be. Fair enough, but what about the scene in the trailer with Leon and Claire in the train yard where they appear to be ambushing Wolfpack? How can that scene possibly play out without disrupting the events of Biohazard 2 considering Leon and Claire are pretty much separated from the police station until the underground lab at the climax of the game?
*Originally the UBCS were deployed to Raccoon in the very late hours of September 26th according to files in RE3, yet in OPR they appear to deployed into the city immediately after the outbreak.

The game is still five months away and already we have a number of story issues that are only going to increase over time.

This is a spin off, and as we know, they take liberties in the story. Everything that causes issues with the original material should just be ignored. If the inconsistencies outweight the real dates/information, it's clearly not meant to replace the originals. I'd just ignore the story conflicts altogheter and enjoy it as a "what if" scenario during the Raccoon City outbreak. Your sanity and gameplay experience will thank you!


I think that scene could be triggered if you (as the USS) tried to kill them. If you leave them alone that doesn't happen, because Leon confronts them and knows who they are at that point, which obviously never happened in RE2.


We've only seen Nicholai, though. He could have travelled there with a few people on his own to retrieve data, while the rest officially arrived later. (I'm not 100% sure if it's said that Nicholai specifically arrived on the 26th like the rest, haven't played RE3 in a while).

It is on the same level as the comics, novels, drama albums, Gaiden and 4D-Executer. Alternative universe. Unrelated to the main series. Separate story within the same world.

One of many reasons I'm not excited about this game is because of how hard I find this story to swallow... even if it is just a spinoff.
It's American developers with no experience with the RE series, mucking around with the story of my favorite Resident Evil game, and that just doesn't sit right with me.

I don't have that capacity I'm afraid. The errors would irritate me too much.



Can't really see that happening either. I doubt you'd have the option to leave them alone if your mission objective is to kill them.



Nicholai arrived Sep 26th same as everyone else. He was part of Mikhail's squad.

It'll turn out that Jill zombifies and kills Carlos who was sat around staring at her for 3 days, Claire and Sherry don't make it out, Chris is captured by Umbrella and terminated, basically everything after Leon getting shot in RE2 was a dying dream on his part and he bleeds out. The Outbreak survivors escape, Operation Raccoon City is the Canon and RE6 will feature Jim as the main lead.

There we go all sorted.





...guys?

For the record, this is where Slant Six got the "T02" crap from. It made the rounds on the Resident Evil Wiki, which is where Slant Six got it from. It does not appear in any other material, just this fake Chinese guidebook.

Any RE game with Jim as the lead character will be an instant classic.

I kind of agree relating to it's canonocity. (Yeah, I know.) It's hard to get into something that seems to fall so far out of the RE universe's timeline, so I would chose revelations over ORC any day. But I am still gonna grab the game hopefully from ebay or something.

The main objective is not to kill Leon, Claire and other main characters, but to cover up the T-virus outbreak and the mess that Birkin caused after injecting himself with the G-virus, basically. According to this interview with Mike Jones you can choose to go the canon route without killing the main characters ('canon' in the loosest sense, given the inconsistencies mentioned such as the T-02 crap) or kill either of them, thus affecting the outcome and completely changing the events.

In their own words, "it's your choice". So it's possible this cutscene is triggered if you decided to attack them earlier.