I am a VERY big fan of Resident Evil and feel that I am in a good place to comment on what I feel is the best of the series.
I have BTW, completed and gotten every secret in the following titles:
Resident Evil (Saturn and PS versions)
Resident Evil: Director\'s Cut
Resident Evil: Director\'s Cut Dual Shock
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2: Dual Shock
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
And my pick of Best of the Series is...
Resident Evil 2
This game really took everything that was great about the first one and made it better. I loved it, except for the fact that it was too easy and wasn\'t as forboding as the original. (The first one had a disturbing and suspenseful atmosphere that was never surpassed... until the release of Silent Hill.) But with better graphics, improved combat, a compeling story, Resident Evil 2 was definately the game that made the "survival horror" moniker, cool.
As for the other titles...
I never owned a Dreamcast (I knew that it would be short lived.) I did, however, rent the system and Resident Evil: Code Veronica play a good ways through it. The rental didn\'t include a memory cartridge so I never got the chance to play the entire way through RE:CV, but out of the part I did play i don\'t feel that it is any where near the best of the series. Reading reviews about it will make you believe that it absolutely destroys the titles before it and I don\'t feel that that is the case. In fact so far I like the first 3 (ok 6 in my case!!) games, better than Code Veronica.
As for that Survi- (ooh almost commeted a sin!!) I dissowned that sorry excuse for a Resident Evil game and vowed never to mention its name again!!!
Turns to slotted window.
"Bless me father for I have sinned..."