There have been three movies made - Resident Evil , Resident Evil : Apocalypse , and Resident Evil : Extinction which all star Milla Jovovich as a character not in the video games and are live action . The next three games in the seriesâ '' a remake of the original Resident Evil and the prequel Resident Evil Zero , both released in 2002 , as well as Resident Evil 4 â '' were all released initially as GameCube exclusives . Resident Evil 4 was later released for Windows , PS2 and Wii .