Resident Evil 2 is easily the best in the Resident evil series and probaly the most entertaining PS1 game ever made.
The gameplay is fantastic and truely the reason for play this game. Its just entertaining and every second your playing your sucked in and focused on playing. Some games cant do that to you, but RE2 can. The games is saw from a RTS like view, a sky view, and you control your chracter from there. From the first opening level, your out into a zombie killing good time, you kill a horde of zombies off of you and your partner and continue from there. The best part of this game must be its actualy use of zombies! Yes real friggin zombies in a RE games. The newer RE games portray the zombies as to smart, and pretty much not even zombies. They'd be catergorized more as smart mutant creature/peoples. But RE2 shows its roots of real zombie gameplay. The shooting is easy and all you have to do is aim your chracater at what you want to shoot and bam.
The story is something you must experiance and im not giving anything away.
All in all RE2 is the best RE ever, and deserves its place as one of the top 5 best PS1 games ever.