Resident Evil: Underworld

This was such a great book series! Any fans of the Resident Evil games, especially the early ones released on the PS 1 and Game Cube will very much love these books. I just restarted reading them after a few years of them sitting on the shelf. I read them every few years, and they're always all kinds of fun, as if I'm playing the games again while also getting some fun additional character development. If you're a fan of the OG Resident Evil games, I'd highly recommend you buy this series. You won't be disappointed.

This is the authors 2nd piece of work created in the world of Resident Evil. There are 7 books total this far. Most of them are based off their video game counterparts produced by Capcom. The author wrote Caliban Cove, which also was an original story that created in their own to fit empty story plots and added to the story of the main series. No, there were not zombies in this book, however it was still a great read. Many revelations on the authors added details to the series for a subtle twist came to light. To keep up with the highly popular and liked Resident Evil atmosphere. 5 stars!

I must say that I (a big RE2 fan) ran across these books and immediately bought all 4 just to see what they were like. The first one was good (and thankfully showed how capable and smart the team was despite the bad acting in the first game), and the second book took probably the most uninteresting character from the first game (although the first book made her soooo much more interesting) and put her as the only known character in this book - and it was *very* cool and gave us a new team to get to know. The third one, what can I say. I played this game how many times, knew the story word for word begining to end - and yet I was still on the edge of my seat until the end!! Watching Leon's plight and Claire protecting Sherry - god it was good. And it made Ada's part so much more understandable. The forth book? What can I say, Leon, Rebecca, Claire, and the other stars team together? It was wonderful - I had to read it in one sitting - I couldn't help it. What I'm saying is that SD Perry took a game with a vague story and made it into my now favorite book series, I just fear the day that the story ends.....

Big fan of the RE series, have been since '96! Collect almost every RE thing I see. I had the original S. D. Perry books, but thought I'd get the. new ones with a new cover on the same old book!

The Good: Captures the personality and atmosphere of the RE series, new setting is tense and dangerous, great endingThe Bad: Can feel a bit rushed in spotsI started this 7 book Resident Evil series before I even opened this site, so after the review for number 7 is up I will do a Final Thoughts to recap the first 4. This series is an original story by S.D. Perry. She takes the Resident Evil characters that we know, adds some new ones, and a few little twists of her own such as new monsters and Umbrella schemes. It is well done and feels almost better than what Capcom has going. These books were written in the late 90′s after Resident Evil 3 was released, so don't expect anything from anything past that game.Underworld sees The ex-S.T.A.R.S team consisting of Leon, Claire, Rebecca, and new comers John and David. These two characters are introduced in the earlier books and are solid memorable characters. A mysterious man named Mr. Trent, who has been giving them clues to help shut down Umbrella, finally reveals himself fully, almost, to the team this time around. They want to go to Europe to help Chris and Jill, but he sends them on a different mission in Salt Lake City, Utah to retrieve a code book from a Mr. Reston. This little facility called "Planet" is part of White Umbrella's division where they are testing new species out. The team heads there but a lot of things go wrong in this underground facility.S.D. Perry does a good job of giving you multiple perspectives on the same situation. Leon and John are stuck in a series of tests that span four rooms throughout most of the book. You get their perspective, then she will cut to Reston's perspective as he sees it all on the camera monitors. You get the insight from every major character and she does a good job chopping up the story and bringing it full circle at the end of the book. Each one is like this and it is highly entertaining, Perry fully utilizes the RE world and captures the characters we have grown to love while still making us hate Umbrella for their horrible experiments.On the surface Claire, Rebecca, and David are trying to find their way down, but are being intercepted by an Umbrella spook squad to wipe them out. Reston is a conniving coward and your grow to really hate this greasy slimeball. You get a perspective of the characters personalities that can't shine through in a game, you basically get to know them more. Underworld is a fantastic book for RE fans, but I highly recommend you starting at book zero.

Great story and expanded lore. An easy read and worth the couple hours of takes. I would recommend reading the whole series

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I'm a big Resident Evil Fan, both the Games and the movies, and now the books too! It's awesome to get back story on the story line and the characters. Also if you like to read and don't want to play the games and don't believe the movies are accurate, you'll love these books! Overall Love the series!