Leaves are beginning to fall outside and that can only mean one thing, it's almost time to celebrate Halloween 2009. While most normal people are out carving pumpkins or picking out scary costumes us gaming nerds are camped out inside on the couch trying to play through the onslaught of new games hitting retail shelves nearly every day. To celebrate Halloween 2009 here at PlanetXbox360.com we have put together a list of our top 10 video game villains, each one has the power to scare your socks off if encountered late at night in the darkness. Check the full list out below and let us know what your favorite villain is by heading over to our
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10. Necromorphs – Dead Space: Ask any geek on the face of the Earth and they will be able to tell you the best and brightest way to kill a zombie no questions asked, by removing the head or destroying the brain. Really, it is just that simple and nothing to bat an eyelash about. But what if that wasn’t the case? What if you actually had to dismember the enemy that was trying to turn you into at the very least mince meat and at the very worst one of them? That was what you faced in Dead Space and they still stand up as far as I’m concerned against the Horde of Infected in Left 4 Dead easily because as scary as Left 4 Dead was, the idea of being pulled into a vent by a Necromorph and having the sense of mind to eviscerate them was somehow easily forgotten when they were trying to get their claws into you. On top of the sheer amount of fear they instilled in the player, the game designers based many of the creatures off accident victims and people who suffered amputations at the hand of infections as they tried to tap into the most primal of instincts in order to instill a sense of terror in the player. I love this game for the very reason I hate it, those things scare the hell out of me.
9. General RAAM – Gears of War: Yeah, the Queen is alright and Skorge seemed to wuss out on us later in Gears of War 2, but General RAAM was out to completely mess the Gears up in a way that you wouldn’t believe. The man had a swarm of Krill surrounding him for the love of God. Creatures that lived in darkness and would annihilate anything that got in their way to shreds and they were too scared to mess with General RAAM, they hung out with him. From the first time that we seem the good General, he kills the then leader of Delta Squad, Lieutenant Kim with a giant knife through the body. For all intents and purposes, RAAM can carry a troika machine gun, a crew-served weapon, unassisted and operate it totally on his own which he will use to make you wish you were dead a hundred different ways before he gets his hands on you. No, RAAM didn’t need to be like Skorge with some fancy blades, he was a Locust who wanted to destroy humanity so badly, that he rose above the rest of the Horde to become a General. Call him what you will, but I think badass was definitely somewhere on his resume right along with human exterminator.
8. Imran Zakhaev – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: Hans Gruber was a good villain, but he only had to mess with John McClane. Zakhaev had to survive operatives like then Lieutenant Price, who if you remember correctly shot his arm off with a giant damn sniper rifle, and then came back for more. It takes a hardcore sort to lead a nationalistic movement let alone have a son who would rather kill himself than fall into the hands of the enemy, so it’s not like he’s gunning for father of the year. But not only is the man responsible for a nuclear weapon going off in the Middle East, he tried to devastate the Eastern Seaboard of the United States with two other nuclear devices. I’m pretty sure that Zakhaev would probably shoot Hans Gruber in the face if given the few seconds needed to pull the trigger.
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