The first Resident Evil game was released in 1996, with the horrors all beginning at the Spencer Mansion, and has since stolen the hearts of gamers all over the world. With a devoted, loyal fanbase, Capcom have been able to create 10 core games within the franchise, as well as dozens of additional games and other content that only add to its intricate timeline.
Claire Redfield is just one of the many iconic characters the Resident Evil franchise has delivered. She's the sister of Resident Evil legend, Chris Redfield, and a current member of the human rights organization, TerraSave. Over the years, she's become a fan-favorite character who has appeared in a number of Resident Evil games - but which has she played a major part in?
8 Resident Evil 2 (1998/2020)
Resident Evil 2 was originally released on the PlayStation in 1998 and later remade in 2020. The plot follows two main protagonists on their individual missions to escape the zombie-infested Raccoon City, although both characters will start and end at the same place and often bump into one another.
Claire is a playable character in Resident Evil 2; during her playthrough, Claire initially searches the RCPD for her brother, Chris, but ends up coming across a lost child, Sherry Birkin, thus shifting her focus on finding her mother and ensuring her safety.
7 Code: Veronica (2000)
Resident Evil: Code Veronica is the fourth main installment in the Resident Evil series, released in 2000. The plot follows Claire Redfield, 3 months after the events of Resident Evil 2, who is still in search for her brother.
The player will join Claire on her journey to an Umbrella facility situated in Paris, however, her presence there is met with great force, and she is soon captured and sent to Rockfort Island, a remote island, to which she must escape.
6 Survivor 2 – Code: Veronica (2001)
Survivor 2: Code: Veronica is a first-person shooter, released in 2001; it's the sequel to Resident Evil: Survivor, the second installment in the Gun Survivor series and adapted from, of course, Resident Evil: Code Veronica. Claire, along with Steve Burnside, is one of the game's playable characters.
The storyline follows the same plot as Code: Veronica, except the gameplay is now timed - if the player runs out of time, Nemesis will begin to hunt them. This game is actually non-canon, with no connection to the Resident Evil timeline as it's based on a nightmare Claire is having after the events of Code: Veronica.
5 Darkside Chronicles (2009)
Darkside Chronicles is an on-rails shooting game made exclusively for the Wii and PlayStation 3, released in 2009. The player will revisit Claire's journey from previous games, making her the main protagonist.
The plot merges together the events on Resident Evil 2 and Code: Veronica, with an additional segment that pieces the two stories together. Whilst this game retells the previous few games story, it is seemingly more focused on the personal stories of its characters instead.
4 The Mercenaries 3D (2011)
The Mercenaries 3D is a third-person shooter released exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS in 2011. This game doesn't follow a particular story and is rather a mixture of the previous 'The Mercenaries' mini-games featured in both Resident Evil 4 and 5. In this game, the player must defeat as any enemies as possible within a time limit, aiming to reach a high score.
Claire features as one of the game's eight playable characters, however, she can only be unlocked by completing missions 1-3 with a score of 'B' rank or above. The player can also obtain an additional outfit for Claire by achieving 25 medals.
3 Operation Raccoon City (2012)
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is a third-person shooter released in 2012, set at the same time as Resident Evil 2 and 3 but non-canon to the timeline. The game has two separate storylines, each focusing on a different, opposing, special forces team. One plot follows the Delta Team, an Umbrella Secret Service unit, who have been instructed to destroy any evidence of Umbrella's involvement with the outbreak whilst the other focuses on Echo Six, who work for the U.S. government, who have instead been ordered to search for data that'd incriminate Umbrella.
Claire plays a very minor part in the story; depending on the playthrough, she will either be threatened by the Delta Team into giving up Sherry or encounter the Echo Six team down in the sewers and later saved by them from a mutated T-103, allowing her, Sherry and Leon to escape the city.
2 Revelations 2 (2015)
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is an episodic survival horror, with every episode being released by early 2015. The story is set between Resident Evil 5 and 6 and follows two characters whose journeys intertwine to solve one mystery.
Claire Redfield appears once again as one of the game's playable characters and main protagonist for the first half of the game, or first four episodes. The player must help Claire and Moira Burton, her partner and daughter of Barry Burton, escape a monster-infected island.
1 Re:Verse (2022)
Resident Evil: Re: Verse is an online survival revenge battle game released in 2022 that features a cast of fan-favorite characters and familiar map locations. A member of the game's iconic roster and one of many playable characters is Claire Redfield.
In Re: Verse she is equipped with a handgun and a machine gun as well as a number of skills including 'Modified Alternator', allowing her to throw a modified alternator forward which then electrocutes and damages enemies, 'Adrenaline Shot', which slightly restores her HP and fills the player's dodge stamina and, finally, her passive skill ('Speedloader') that grants her the ability to reload her handgun whilst dodging.