Employed in the game for the first time was the use of motion capture for cutscenes, making the characters' movements more realistic. The game was announced in 2005, the same year that its predecessor Resident Evil 4 was released, with several staff members from that game and the original Resident Evil being involved. Chris soon finds he has to confront his past in the shape of old enemy Albert Wesker. The plot of Resident Evil 5 revolves around Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar's investigation of a terrorist threat in Kijuju, a fictional region in Africa. It was released on Main Japan and on Main North America and Europe for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and September 2009 for Microsoft Windows. The game is the seventh installment in the Resident Evil series. Resident Evil 5 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom.
