Top 10 Gaming Moments to Experience Before You Die

Left 4 Dead is a co-operative multiplayer first person shooter in which you play as one of up to four people (called “Survivors”), luckily immune to a virus that is spreading through the human population with frightening speed. The pandemic’s victims become grotesquely disfigured, wildly violent psychopaths, attacking the uninfected on sight. Really, how many times did this game many people jump or scream like a little girl as they sprayed as much ammo in the direction of the infected? I’ll tell you this from personal experience, a lot. I can’t even begin to recall how many times this game left me feeling put off to the bumps in the night. Show me a part of the game that isn’t memorable and it’s probably because the difficulty is too low or its seconds before a new horde of infected descends on you in fury.

5. Fallout 3 – Tranquility Lane:

Yes, the entire game is one long, epic journey through the Capital Wasteland and never once really lets up being a damn good time, but along the main quest being trapped in Tranquility Lane stood out as particularly disturbing to me. It was like Leave it to Beaver meets the Twilight Zone complete with your father being a virtual dog, a house that no one is meant to go into, a little girl with a deep manly voice and a Red China invasion which when combined with the tasks to murder people all rolls together to make one outstanding experience. It’s a crucial moment of choice and strikes me as a 1950’s version of the Matrix, but in the end, your choice leads to what happens next. I was a big fan of being good, hence the fail safe was activated.

4. Bioshock – Becoming a Big Daddy:

You spent the entire game either avoiding them out of fear or going toe to toe with these leviathans of Rapture. They are as much iconic as they are badass and in the world of Bioshock, they rule the ocean floor and protect little sisters with grim prejudice. So, it was all the more shocking when you finally begin the processes to become one. Not because the end result would ultimately prove to be extremely awesome, but through the process of becoming a Big Daddy, you expressly learn what people had to undergo to do so. Proving to be a harsh form of indoctrination, it turns you into the walking tank that patrols the hallways and corridors acting as guardians to the little girls who would otherwise be defenseless.

3. Halo 3 – Tsavo Highway:

Halo 3: ODST made me remember one grinding flaw and that it was the Halo, Halo 2 or Halo 3 that I had come to know and love, but Halo 3 is definitely worth receiving some love on this list as far as I’m concerned. Following crashing out of the sky and fighting through the forest and a Marine base, the Master Chief finds himself on Tsavo Highway. I found this to be extremely fun, not just for the levels ability to show off a massive landscape that looks graphically beautiful, but because this is one of the best co-op experiences that any gamers can share. I don’t know what rock you might have been living under, but if you haven’t had a chance to check this out, round up three other friends and have a go at Halo 3.