Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (2001) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X is a port of the original game with additional content comprised of improved graphics along with an extra nine minutes of cutscenes. The character Steve had his hairstyle changed…

22 March 2001

What Resident Evil Code: Veronica X is

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X is an adventure game developed by Nextech and released in 2001. It was published by Capcom. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Three months after the events of Resident Evil 2, Claire Redfield is still looking for her brother Chris. She infiltrates Umbrella Corporation's headquarters in Paris, where she is captured and knocked out. When she comes to, she finds herself in a prison on a remote island. Freed by a friendly guard, Claire faces several problems. Not only is the island under attack by an unknown assailant, but there has been another outbreak of the T-Virus and the island is crawling with zombies and other mutated creatures. Claire not only has to face the undead, but also the commander of the base, a mad aristocrat with family ties to the origins of Umbrella Corporation and the T-Virus. And escaping from…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Resident Evil series

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X is the 17th of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Resident Evil Gaiden in 2001.

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What it launched against

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X launched on 22 March 2001, within three weeks of Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Worms World Party and Cossacks: European Wars. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Worms World Party, Cossacks: European Wars.

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