I know, it's near the top of my wanted list for when I finally buy a WiiU
Everything I heard about it so far sounds cool.
I read all the files I found in every RE game, though it was admittedly some years ago
Sure, the B.O.W.s were planned and named by Umbrella, but you didn't play as an Umbrella researcher, but an outsider who did not previously know that such things existed - who was discovering where the hell they came from as the game progressed, and so was the player. Richard didn't tell Jill he was attacked by a B.O.W., did he? Similarly, the police officers in RE2 who nicknamed an unknown monster "the Licker" didn't know anything about it, other than that it's a freaky thing that murders people, they didn't write down "a new kind of B.O.W. attacked us today". Unless my memory is murkier than I expected
The thing I have a problem with is how the RE protagonists became experts on the matter I guess.