When the President's daughter is abducted, U.S. Agent Leon Kennedy is assigned to investigate her mysterious disappearance. His mission takes him to a remote and obscure location in Europe, where the people seem hostile and... unnatural. With each new unimaginable horror Leon encounters, the mystery only grows deeper and more dangerous. The Resident Evil series continues to captivate video gamers over a decade since its first release by Capcom in 1996. The zombie-killing survivalist heroes have been adapted to grace the screens of several varieties of gaming systems as well as computers and the series has reached success in the global market, popularized internationally under the alternate name Biohazard. Twelve installments of the Resident Evil series are already available to fans, with over 30 million copies sold and two new installments planned for release in 2008. The success of the video games has enabled the expansion of the franchise to include comic books, action figures, novelizations and live-action feature films. Resident Evil is a favourite of video game and fantasy fans spanning the globe.