Resident Evil - Code: Veronica

Resident Evil – Code: Veronica
North American Dreamcast cover art
Developer(s)	Capcom Production Studio 4 Nextech
Publisher(s)	Capcom Dreamcast JP / NA: Capcom PAL: Eidos Interactive PlayStation 2 Capcom GameCube JP / NA / EU: Capcom AU: Nintendo Australia
Director(s)	Hiroki Kato
Producer(s)	Shinji Mikami
Writer(s)	Noboru Sugimura Hirohisa Soda Junichi Miyashita Akira Asaka Hideyuki Ishizeki Yasuyuki Suzuki
Composer(s)	Takeshi Miura Hijiri Anze Sanae Kasahara
Series	Resident Evil
Platform(s)	Dreamcast PlayStation 2 (X) GameCube (X) Xbox 360 (X HD) PlayStation 3 (X HD)
Release date(s)	February 3, 2000 Dreamcast JP: February 3, 2000 NA: February 29, 2000 EU: May 26, 2000 Kanzenban JP: March 22, 2001 PlayStation 2 JP: March 22, 2001 NA: August 21, 2001 EU: September 14, 2001 GameCube JP: August 7, 2003 NA: December 3, 2003 EU: March 12, 2004 Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 NA: September 27, 2011 EU: September 27, 2011 (X360) EU: September 28, 2011 (PS3) AU: November 15, 2011 JP: March 13, 2012
Genre(s)	Survival horror
Mode(s)	Single-player

Aggregate score
Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	94%
Review scores
Publication	Score
AllGame
Famitsu	(DC) 35/40 (DC Kanzenban) 32/40 (PS2 Kanzenban) 32/40
GamePro
GameSpot	9.5/10
IGN	9.2/10

Resident Evil – Code: Veronica, known in Japan as Biohazard Code: Veronica, is a survival horror video game developed by Capcom. It is the fourth major installment in the main Resident Evil series and was originally released for the Dreamcast in 2000. It was the first title in the Resident Evil series to debut on a non-Sony platform, in contrast to the first three installments which were originally released on the PlayStation. The story follows Claire Redfield, her brother Chris Redfield, and Steve Burnside in their efforts to survive a viral outbreak at both a remote prison island in the Southern Ocean and a research facility in Antarctica. The game retains the survival horror elements from previous installments in the series such as the use of puzzles and guns. Unlike the traditional pre-rendered backgrounds of previous games, Code: Veronica incorporates real-time 3D environments and camera movement for the first time.

Code: Veronica was developed in tandem with Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Although not a numbered release, the developers describe the game as the true sequel to Resident Evil 2. Code: Veronica has received critical acclaim, and has been considered both among the best Resident Evil and Dreamcast games of all-time. An updated version of the game, titled Code: Veronica X, includes new cutscenes along with mild graphical changes. This revision was released for the Dreamcast in Japan and for the PlayStation 2 worldwide in 2001, eventually being ported to the GameCube in 2003. A high-definition remaster was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011.