Ranking EVERY Main Resident Evil From Worst To Best
How does RE3's remake fare against the rest?
For 24 years now Resident Evil has defined a genre, time and again, spawning 13 entries in its mainline series (including two remakes) and 11 side games, all drastically varying in quality. It is hard to imagine the landscape of gaming without this standard bearer of survival horror constantly checking in.
Unlike other long-running series', Capcom hasn't been shy taking risks over the years, reinventing survival horror by changing up protagonists, perspectives and even the genre itself to some extent. So yes, these game have their place in the overarching timeline, but all come with their own unique self-contained stories.
Resident Evil has certainly seen its fair shares of highs and lows throughout its tenure, from setting trends to revolutionising the industry and even dropping the ball so hard a fresh start was desperately needed. Let's not try to hide the fact that these games can be scary as hell, but then the next could be the schlockiest thing you play all year.
So, as the RE3 remake is finally out, let's see how it stands against the other 13 main titles from Capcom. For the purpose of this list, sub-series such as Outbreak, Survivor and Dead Aim are left out and well... Umbrella Corps really should be left dead and buried anyway.
14. Resident Evil 6
It is hard to see such a beloved franchise sink so low, and when it comes to the mainline series of games, it doesn't really get worse than Resident Evil 6.
The third in a line of increasing action-focused titles, RE6 is arguably the most ambitious in franchise history, with six protagonists across three interweaving campaigns, and if that wasn't enough - there was a secret fourth staring the legendary Ada Wong.
That being said, even though there was a breadth of content here, it became clear that with each playthrough the experiences became diluted a tedious. Players were tasked with fighting similar waves of enemies in slightly different situations, over and over (and over) again.
Each of the three stories has a different twist, with Leon's trying to harken back to the "good old days" of survival horror, Chris's being extremely action-orientated to a point where the series was almost unrecognisable, and finally... Jack's campaign. This was Capcom trying to recreate lightning in a bottle with a new Nemesis, but Ustanak was a poor stand-in, to say the least.
Resident Evil 6 was doing far too much, and ended up a clusterf**k of an initially neat concept.