good games for beginners, though you may not have heard of them:
Looks: Rediculous.
Is : Completely awesome.
Pikmin, for the Wii.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZTa-WdR ... re=related
control a horde of cute, but blood-thirsty pickmin as you ravage the country side in search of space-ship parts.
Tiny, cute, ferocious bugs be ware!
check about 7 minutes in, where the bloodshed begins!
Katamari Damacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0pvSlRx ... re=related
Even weirder.
Roll around a katamari ball, which picks up things smaller than it, like a snow-man ball, and it grows bigger and bigger until you can roll up whole buildings, and beyond. Skip through the video a couple times, see the madness.
Legend of Zelda Twighlight princess (or any of them. They are all excellent.)
If you are successfully navigating resident evil games, though:
Dead rising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd6dLVSl ... re=related
Soul Reaver 1 and 2, also Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Some of the coolest story telling in video gaming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFiLNc46jAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbdr2hy4PtY