I loved all the main Resident Evil Games but the PS2 Outbreak games are awful.
I enjoyed Code Veronica a great deal (cross dressing Aryan wierdoes and women turning into ants, common! What's not to love?).
The films completely missed the mark, Resident Evil is about isolation, normally (you mostly follow one character and bump into a few others along the way) the big mistake with the films was to follow the horror cliche of having a group with the lead who get bumped off as the film progresses.
The Silent Hill film almost got it right but the huge exposition data dump buggered it up, Silent Hill is more like a David Lynch/Carnival Of Souls sort of scenerio where the narrative is deliberatly obscured in a dreamlike fashion so we didn't need any explanations. The only character in that film that should feel like a real person should have been Rose.
The Resident Evil films also forgot that giant animals are a major element in the games (it adds to that 1950's sci-fi vibe), where were the giant spiders, giant snakes, giant scorpions, giant centipedes, giant moths?
And where were the strange gothic environments?
There's a fan edit in there somewhere Anaconda, Eight Legged Freaks, Mimic, King Kong even a few bits from The Fly II mixed in with all the the Resident Evil films and Legend Of Hell House might make for a really good Resident Evil film.
The film series didn't really work from the beginning so it's a bit off topic of me to have a dig at them on a sequel thread but the sad thing is that a really good Resident Evil film could be made.
Like Star Wars, Resident Evil is a compendium of ideas from other sources, mostly cinematic in nature so it should translate well back into cinema.
If you haven't seen it before this guy overeacting to Resident Evil 2 is hilarious (now with subtitles) :