Resident Evil 4, I think this is my ALL TIME MOST FAVORITE.
This one gets a bad rap and a lot of RE fans didn't like it. But I thought it was the best one for sure. It was so action packed and creepy, violent, and fun. Leon is my favorite RE hero. I love how sarcastic and friendly he is. I don't agree with people, how they can say the "tank" controls are better. I just don't get it. And how the Ganados aren't zombies, they are infected. Give me a break, they are much cooler zombies, and are scarier than regular zombies.
Those people can take their zombie terminology and jam it where the sun don't shine. People forget that the term Zombi, came from voodoo myth, and was mind/ soul control and not the undead. Even so, the thought of having a parasite inside you that was trying to control your mind was even scarier than any zombie threat would pose.
I also don't get why people didn't like the parts with Ashley. They were so tense and fun. The one part in the castle where she turns cranks and you fight off the Illuminados, was brilliant and a real challenge. The Los Illuniados, chanting was the creepiest thing ever.
Now that I am done ranting.... my most favorite thing about that game is when the Ganados glitch and don't fall over right away when you blow their heads off. They walk around headless, and blood squirts out of their necks for a good ten seconds while they walk in circles. This only happens before the Plagas are revealed after crossing the lake, after Leon's hallucination. A cool easter egg can be found at this part too. After Leon passes out, you can get the boat, and go back across the lake to see a cut scene with 2 infected dogs changing into the Pagas. Also, before the lake fight, if you go down and shoot the water near the shore, the lake monster comes out and eats you. A great "pants pooping" moment.
Speaking of the lake, the alligator fish thing, dragging Leon around the lake was so epic. Even the quick time event at the end was awesome.
The best scare, OH SHIT moment I have ever had in a game was in this game too. When you free Ashley, and fight off the horde in the old house with Luis, after that you get to go either right or left. If you go left, you go into this crude maze and the chainsaw wielding Bella Sister jumps out screaming. When this happened I almost pooped and then was brutally decapitated.
That is the best most memorable gaming moment I can recall. It was great! I also liked how if you killed a Ganado holding dynamite, his body would blow up shortly after making him into a pink mist, and knocking back everything else around him. Getting multiple head shots with one shot, from an upgraded gun was so thrilling too. I could go on for paragraphs and hours about this game.
Fun Fact: Did you know all of the chainsaw head decaps in the Wii version have been slightly censored?
Watch this at 1:37, they moved the frame down slightly, to obscure the wound on Leon's neck:
The other thing I loved about this game was how the money carried over, and getting the handcannon and Chi-Town typewriter. By a few playthroughs you were so overpowered it wasn't funny. I used to be able to do a speed run in that game in under 5 hours, start to finish, no saving, no breaks, beginning to end.
I have owned 2 iterations of this game, on Gamecube and Wii, 3 copies of the GC, bought another copy, and now have a back up in case anything happens to it. I can't wait for the HD version of this to come out on Xbox live. I can't wait.