This game takes place after the events of Resident Evil 3 and the end of Raccoon City. The Umbrella Corporation is in dire straits after hundreds of thousands of innocent lives were lost in the debacle at that doomed city. Now, the United Nations is in the process of setting up a task force to help determine the true corruption of the Umbrella Corporation. Looking for the best and the brightest, the task force is being sent on its first assignment... which could quite well be its last...