Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, known in Japan as , is a
survival horror video game developed by
Capcom and originally released for the
PlayStation video game console in 1999. It is the third installment in the
Resident Evil video game series and takes place before and after the events of
Resident Evil 2. The story of the game follows
Resident Evil protagonist
Jill Valentine and her efforts to escape from a city that has been infected with a new type of
biological weapon secretly developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella. The game uses the same
engine as its predecessors and features
3D models over
pre-rendered backgrounds with fixed camera angles.