8 Ridiculous Video Game Premises That Make No Sense

8. Resident Evil 4

The premise: Leon S. Kennedy, six years previously having survived a zombie-spawning viral outbreak in Raccoon City as a fresh-faced cop, finds himself promoted to an unknown position within the U.S. government.

After the president's daughter is kidnapped by a cult based in Spain, Leon's sent in, alone, to retrieve the girl and earn a pat on the back.

Why it makes no sense: The president of the United States of America and the most powerful man in the world, who has specially-trained task forces, cutting-edge technology and an entire military at his beck and call, sends one man to retrieve what's most precious to him rather than, oh, we don't know, contacting the Spanish authorities and requesting their help and/or support in the matter?

But hey, why follow sound advice such as that, when you can send a lone government-backed agent into the remote Spanish countryside with vague intel that declines to mention the presence of a parasite-worshipping cult so widespread that the native authorities would almost certainly know of its existence.

Nice try, Capcom.