Resident Evil 2 is re-launching today as a digital download to the PS3 and PSP.  We’re talking the entirety of Raccoon City, Umbrella, and more, downloadable and playable on your Sony console of choice.  Imagine if we had the ability to take all awesome things and make them downloadable, instead of just awesome Capcom games.

For quite some time, Resident Evil 2 was the Survival Horror genre.  It brought chills to my spine, just like it brought chills to the spines of many others (Big shout-out to Mike for his 3-part RE2 recap here, here and here). 

The story of this game belongs in a museum.  Zombies try to kill you, then you meet Ada Wong, there are some quite spacious sewers involved, Umbrella being evil, Rebecca in a basketball uniform, and then an unmentionably tense ending.  Release date be damned, this game almost made my top 10 releases for the decade.

If you’re excited about Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, but are Wii-deprived, know this: one of the best parts of that game is the inclusion of scenes from Resident Evil 2.  You know what other game includes scenes from RE2?  RE2.  Download it.

News, everyone!  Today marks the beginning of a new era.  From this moment forward, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X and Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower are both available for download from the PlayStation Network.  PSP users can now get  both their fresh-classic Mega Man action and their sleek-hot Darkstalkers fighting action downloaded directly to their minds (Actually, PSPs and PSP gos).

The fresh and classic: Mega Man Maverick Hunter X is a remixed, remastered, re-awesome version of Mega Man X (a la the SNES).  When Sigma leads a group of Reploids in a revolt against mankind, it’s up to X and Zero to protect the world from ruin.

It’s still side-scrolling, but we’ve updated it with 3-D graphics, remixed music, and unlockable features.  If you like good games, this is one of them.  That’s what it comes down to.  Ask anyone who knows, Mega Man X rocks.  I almost failed my Discrete Mathematics test Sophomore year when it failed to have any of the Mega Man Maverick Hunter X I had studied the week before.

The smooth and sleek: Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower brings the elegance of vampires to a smooth, sleek fighting game.  Choose your character, then decide which of five different fighting styles you want, each of which heralds from its own game in the Darkstalkers series.

With a game like Darkstalkers, the attraction is simple: come for the characters, stay for the gameplay.  Succubus vs. Vampire?  Yeti vs. Cat-Woman?  These are matchups you have to see.  When you get your hands on the game, it actually proves itself to be a functional and sophisticated fighting game.  It’s like hearing a supermodel spout off on jab connectors and proper combo technique—it’s the best of both worlds.