Having played RE5 and RE6 (and read The Dark Id's LPs for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and a few of the spinoffs), I can testify that this is basically true. Wesker doesn't figure into 6, but his son does (and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Jake is really not an ass). There are another couple of mad scientists taking his place in "Neo-Umbrella".
Yes, there were shapeshifting zombies. "J'avo" can mutate depending on how you kill them, Bloodshots spawn from dead zombies, and then there's Simmons, who really does turn into a T-rex and back about five times over the course of his third boss fight. He's a giant insect by the last round, but at least the game tries to justify it by having him eat zombies.
5 and 6 do also continue nicely the "female characters being as strong as the males" trend! All the campaigns except Chris and Piers are a malexfemale teamup (and the developers didn't want Piers to be female because Chris gets all confrontational and up in his face several times). Ada gets her own campaign. Really, the biggest thing in the malexfemale teamups seem to be an experience gap in dealing with zombies - Leon is more experienced than Helena, Sherry is more experienced than Jake. But the game is good at giving you the impression that they are a team.
(And they are ridiculously superhuman. My god, the number of explosions and crashes they all survive is just...well, ridiculous. No vehicle is safe with Leon at the wheel.)
All told, it's a wacky series, it gets utterly ridiculous at points, but I've found myself fond of it.
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Yes, there were shapeshifting zombies. "J'avo" can mutate depending on how you kill them, Bloodshots spawn from dead zombies, and then there's Simmons, who really does turn into a T-rex and back about five times over the course of his third boss fight. He's a giant insect by the last round, but at least the game tries to justify it by having him eat zombies.
5 and 6 do also continue nicely the "female characters being as strong as the males" trend! All the campaigns except Chris and Piers are a malexfemale teamup (and the developers didn't want Piers to be female because Chris gets all confrontational and up in his face several times). Ada gets her own campaign. Really, the biggest thing in the malexfemale teamups seem to be an experience gap in dealing with zombies - Leon is more experienced than Helena, Sherry is more experienced than Jake. But the game is good at giving you the impression that they are a team.
(And they are ridiculously superhuman. My god, the number of explosions and crashes they all survive is just...well, ridiculous. No vehicle is safe with Leon at the wheel.)
All told, it's a wacky series, it gets utterly ridiculous at points, but I've found myself fond of it.