You played the worst one of the main entries.
If you have a gamecube or wii get zero and the remake to 1. They still look insanely good and the story and atmosphere is amazing. Id also pick up part 2 and nemesis as well if you dont mind playing older games. For their time they were great games and still are today, to me at least.

You decided that the entire Resident Evil series must be overrated based on what is arguably the worst game in the main series...even though Resident Evil was the series that coined the term "survival horror"? Even though Resident Evil was largely responsible for the entire survival horror genre becoming popular throughout the 90s and early 2000s? Even though most horror games have used elements from those early RE games ever since? You call THAT overrated?

Stuff like this makes me feel old. I remember the days RE was considered one of the best series in existence. Now it's just a laughing stock. :(

@Pushagree, I gotta disagree dude. Resident evil 5 may have felt outdated (mostly because aside from new shiny graphics, it was old-skool gameplay). But if you had played one of the early Resident Evil's that came out on PsOne between like 1995-1999, you'd understand why it's a beloved franchise--especially to gamers who remember the 90's. Back then, RE games were scary, inventive, explorative, innovative, and...scary. Not to mention the original Resident Evil is arguably the defining game that sparked the whole genre of "survival horror." HALO is the same thing: i personally also find the game mechanics to be quite outdated, but when that game came out in 2001 on the original Xbox it again sparked a craze of FPS games with a strong focus on multiplayer communities. Without Resident Evil and the Origal HALO, us gamers of today wouldn't be looking forward to a game like Silent Hill: Downpour or arguing over which popular online FPS is better... all those games have roots planted in the soil of Resident Evil or The Original HALO.

And I hate the word "overrated" btw. Using it is just a way of seeming objective when you are really just stating an opinion that you don't like something.