The games came first. The first game came out in 1996 and the first movie in 2002. RE1-Resident Evil 0 were released before the movie.
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In the first Resident Evil movie called Resident Evil Genesis, there are no appearing characters. In the 2nd Resident Evil movie called Resident Evil Apocalypse, there are tw … o reappearing characters. Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera. You might recognize them from Resident Evil 3. In the 3rd Resident Evil movie called Resident Evil Extinction, Carlos Olivera, Claire Redfield and Albert Wesker make an appearance.
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As the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead hordes, Alice must return to where the nightmare began – Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
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Actress Milla Jovovich attends a news conference to promote her movie ''Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D'' in Tokyo September 3, 2010. It has been a year since director Paul W.S. Anderson confirmed director and writing the sixth installment of the video game-turned-movie franchise Resident Evil.. Lead actress Milla Jovovich said previously that the sequel will come out sometime in 2015. Moreover, Anderson said that the film will have a working title Resident Evil: The Final Chapter suggesting that this will be the finale for the zombie-slaying flick.
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Plot Summary: Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, humanity is on its last legs after Alice is betrayed by Wesker in Washington D.C.
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The game is set two months after the events of the first Resident Evil, in the Midwestern American mountain community of Raccoon City. Nearly all of its citizens have been transformed into zombies by an outbreak of the T-virus, a new type of biological weapon secretly developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella.
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Resident Evil 2, known in Japan as Biohazard 2 (Japanese: バイオハザード2, Hepburn: Baiohazādo Tsū) , is a 1998 survival horror video game originally released for the PlayStation.
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A port of Resident Evil 2 for the Sega Saturn was developed internally at Capcom for a time, but technical difficulties led to its cancellation in October 1998. Tiger Electronics released a sprite-based 2.5D version for their Game.com handheld in late 1998.
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Copyright: N/A. Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, humanity is on its last legs after Alice is betrayed by Wesker in Washington D.C.
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Jill Valentine will be back in Resident Evil Afterlife well u cant say no residnt evil characters are in the first movie, alisson is in there or whatever her name is Actually the first resident evil film was just called Resident Evil.
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when was the first resident evil movie came out
The first resident evil movie came out in 2002. The first Resident Evil movie came out in 2002.  