You havent heard of this? It was basically the exact same game with the exact same rendering that we all love and it received basically an 8.5 average. RE2 easily could have done the same thing and so could RE3.
You should play the originals on PSX first for the real RE experience. They took a lot of stuff out that was in the DS version of RE2 and added a lot of unnecessary things to the new one. Its a completely different game.
I don't get it. The Gamecube remake was VERY different from the original.