Best Resident Evil Games: Ranking The Iconic Survival Horror Series

gamespot.com:

Resident Evil is probably the first franchise to come to mind when you think about «survival horror.» Capcom's long-running series arguably birthed the genre, not only establishing some of its conventions with the original game, but also planting the seeds for a lore-filled universe that has one of the most rabid fanbases in video games. Despite this, however, not all Resident Evil games are created equal, and there have been some stinkers over the years, but we rounded up the 10 best Resident Evil games.

For this list, no Resident Evil game was off-limits, and you'll notice that a few «main» entries didn't make the cut in favor of games that teeter on spin-off territory. That only applied to a small number of games, but having a number in the game's title didn't necessarily guarantee it was good.

With the return of more traditional horror in the then-upcoming Resident Evil 7, Capcom opted to go a different route with Resident Evil: Revelations 2. The episodic game stuck to the third-person perspective of its predecessor but amped up the B-movie cheese, even bringing back the goofball Barry Burton as a playable character alongside Claire Redfield. Action-packed but still rooted in survival horror and classic camp cinema, Resident Evil: Revelations 2 may not push the genre forward or attempt to reinvent the series, but it does understand what made it so beloved in the first place. You just cannot beat those Barry one-liners.

See our Resident Evil: Revelations 2 episode reviews.

A prequel to the series set before the events of Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2, the appropriately named Resident Evil 0 originally launched as a GameCube exclusive before becoming more widely available later on. It's a different sort of horror