In the spirits of Halloween, this post is dedicated to 4 scary video game moments that I’ve experienced.  I was originally going to do 5, but I couldn’t think of a 5th moment that scared the crap out of me without listing the same game franchise twice.  Plus, it’s Friday, so I deserve to be lazy.  =)  Enjoy and have a safe, and happy Halloween!

Resident Evil 2

You are trapped all alone in a police station.  It’s infested with zombies, mutated dogs, and practically anything else that wants you dead.  After long hours of fleeing for your life, you take refuge in a room that appears safe… at least for now.  There’s a golden cogwheel embedded into the wall that you must retrieve, but how do you get it?  Looking around for a solution, you see a furnace and 3 adjacent faucets.  You decide to light up the furnace, and turn each of the faucets.  Immediately, a faint clang in the distance signals that the cogwheel dropped to the floor.  As you approach the cogwheel… BOOM!  A hulking monster in a trench coat bursts through the walls.  It looks at you with one goal… kill.  Immediately taking aim, you empty countless clips into this beast, but it’s still inching nearer and nearer, trapping you in a corner.  Finally, as you fire your last shot, he falls down motionless.  You let out a sigh of relief, and retrieve the cogwheel that you came for.  Leaving the room, things appear peaceful again as you are walking into the hallway.  Until…. BOOM!  The walls come crashing down.  Through the smoke appears the same monster you just put down.  It’s staring you right in the face… yet again.


Eternal Darkness
It has been hours since you last saved your game.  You’ve slain countless undead foes, traveled thousands of years, and gathered all of the Ancient’s artifacts.  The only thing’s left is to defeat Pious, the maniacal guardian who’s bent on ending all of humanity as we know it.  Moments before reaching the final boss and saving the world, you encounter… “Disc Read Error”.  At this point, you’re screaming out loud, “This can’t be happening!”  Just when you’re about to throw your Gamecube out the window, it resumes like nothing happened.  You then realized that the game was messing with you all along.  Good one Nintendo… bravo.

Silent Hill
Equipped with only a flashlight and a hand radio, you enter an elementary school in the middle of the night, in hopes to find your missing daughter.  The radio has helped you many times before as it alerts you whenever a threatening menace approaches.  Walking into a locker room, a constant metal banging can be heard in one of the stalls.  But is it a threat?  You don’t hear anything coming from the radio.  Maybe somebody needs help.  As you draw closer to the locker, you find that the hinge is stained with blood, but the banging is getting louder and louder.  As you reach the latch, the sound immediately stops.  Total silence fills the room as you summon enough courage to pull the latch.  Creaking the door open, to your suprise, you find “Nothing inside”.  Finding no further clues, you decide to leave the room, but suddenly…. CRASH!  A mutilated corpse violently bursts out of a stall.

Bioshock
As you peer out of a dark corner of this run-down underwater city, there is a woman in the distance standing next to a stroller.  As you approach her, you hear faint sounds as she coos her child.  In a calm, disturbing tone, you can hear her repeat, “Oh… my baby, my wonderful, beautiful baby.”  Clenching a pipe in your hands, you’re thinking that there’s nothing more dangerous… than a mother.  Creeping up behind her unnoticed, you make one swift strike to her head.  As the mother lies twitching on the cold tile floor, you glimpse into the stroller.  But… there’s no baby in sight.  They only thing lying there is… a gun.

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