It is September 29, 1998. Raccoon City has been overrun. The T-Virus was released into the city's sewer system and spread by rats through the entire population. Two strangers arrive simultaneously: Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie police officer on his very first day of work, and Claire Redfield, a college student searching for her brother. Neither of them knows what they are walking into. Both immediately find themselves fighting for their lives against creatures that should not exist.