Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20141010042656/@comment-397235-20141010060512

Let me break it down for you:

Re6 has four main scenarios, each one anchored by a pivotal character with their own motivations.

Leon Kennedy is a United States Secret Service agent assigned to protect his old friend, President Adam Benford, who's planning to go public with the US government's involvement in the Raccoon City outbreak almost twenty years earlier. Unfortunately, the "Family" (who are really not very well explained in game, other than them being even worse than Umbrella) doesn't like that, so they cause a massive biohazard, killing the President himself and just about everyone else.

Helena Harper is a former CIA officer transferred to the USS for shooting her little sister's abusive boyfriend. Her ties to her sister are her weakness, since the Family kidnaps her and forces Helena to betray the President; then, to prove how bastardly they are, infects Deborah with a bioweapon and force Leon, Helena, and Ada to kill her anyway. Helena's a bit unhinged as a result of this (which makes her context-melee attack against the main bad guy extremely satisfying: normally relying on a bunch of kicking moves, when she fights with Simmons her attack is simple: tackle him and then beat the living shit out of him with her bare hands).

Chris Redfield is an amnesiac deadbeat, AWOL and getting drunk in a bar in Eastern Europe when his old partner (who sadly is neither Jill Valentine nor Sheva Alomar) shows up and tells him he needs to get back to the fight. He and Chris travel to China, where Chris's memories of a mission gone horribly wrong in Eastern Europe start to reassert themselves.

Piers Nevens is...well, he's the character Capcom put the least amount of effort into, actually. He's just there to be Chris's conscience.

Jake Muller is Albert Wesker's bastard son and a soldier of fortune. Along with his entire PMC he's infected with a new virus, but due to his unique DNA, he survives with his intellect intact and spends most of the game trying (with varrying degrees of success) to stay ahead of agents of the Family, who want to dissect him. He also wants to know more about his dad (he's rather nonplussed to learn both, A, his father was in addition to being a deadbeat also a megalomaniac, and B, Chris killed him...and it was "personal").

Sherry Birkin is another USS agent and Raccoon City survivor assigned to make sure nothing happens to Jake. Thanks to being experimented on by her own father, Sherry's also of interest to the Family...this is further made more complicated by the fact her and Leon's boss is actually a lieutenant within the Family.

Ada Wong is an industrial spy and agent provocateur who was once upon a time involved with Derek Simmons, a member of the Family, though once she learned this she broke it off. Simmons, however, couldn't let it go and ended up using one of his own researchers (who was, of course, also infatuated with him) as a surrogate and basically turned her into an Ada doll for him to play with. Carla Redames, somewhat understandably, takes exception to this, except her plan involves killing most of the world with her own BoWs and framing Ada and Simmons for it.

The Agent, Ada's partner, is...an unfinished character, actually. He's not supposed to be there.

So basically, Resident Evil 6 is an extremely complicated web of lies and anger. The central conflict is between Redames and Simmons (who has no idea Carla is even still around; he's mostly trying to clean up Benford's mess which would've upset the world order and probably destroyed both the BSAA [Chris's military unit] and the UN, as well as undermining everything that's been done to outlaw bioweapons).

Leon is still the main hero of the game, but as with Resident Evil 4 he's unaware of the real reason behind everything for quite some time. Chris and Jake are at best incidental characters who don't really do much (though Jake is at least hilarious; Chris is just an asshole who gets his entire second squad killed in his single-minded quest for revenge).