Raccoon City September 9, 1998


 * An American Midwestern city situated
 * in a basin surrounded by mountains
 * with a population of more than
 * 100,000.


 * September 1998
 * Beginning with a string of cannibalistic
 * murders which occurred several
 * months earlier, unrest spread among
 * Raccoon City's citizens until
 * one night, violence broke out across
 * the city, crippling the city's
 * transportation infrastructure.


 * Citizens descended into a state of
 * panic, with all lifelines cut off.
 * Despite rescue efforts on the part of
 * the Raccoon Police and Fire
 * departments, the situation
 * continued to worsen.


 * The city is eventually overrun with
 * hoards of zombies, referred to
 * as "the walking dead."


 * This is where the fight between the
 * Umbrella Corporation, the cause of
 * this nightmare, and Leon begins.