Resident Evil 5 distinguished itself by being built from the ground up for . Whether playing with an AI companion or a real-world partner via split-screen or local network play, cooperation is vital to survival.

They left footprints in the mud, small and messy and real. The files they carried stayed small, and the stories they'd tell would grow into legends that might end up more fiction than fact. But somewhere, in a lab or a shipping crate or a private vault, the name "Multi-9" would be whispered and shivered and then—perhaps—forgotten.