10 Fearsome Video Game Women You Should Never Mess With

6. Resident Evil 5 - Sheva Alomar

In the first game in the storied franchise that overtly abandoned the "horror" part of "Survival-Horror Game", players were treated to a game that was more focused on cooperation rather than one-man survival. Gripes about A.I., and the questionable nature of some of her downloadable outfits aside, Sheva is force to be reckoned with in the Majini-infested African wastes.

Sheva and Chris Redfield, her really buff partner, are members of the B.S.A.A., an organization which functions as counter-operations to biological weapons terrorism. With her family and home village killed by events performed by the Umbrella Corporation in her childhood, Sheva naturally has a bone to pick with the company, and is passionate about freeing Africa of the company's influence - although in the case of Resident Evil 5, the primary antagonist is Tricell, a pharmaceutical company which (of course) is up to no good, enslaving the local populace with the Majini parasites and planning a worldwide extinction with the Uroboros virus, a genetically engineered weapon that will vastly trim the planet's human population, leaving only a few people remaining, granted superhuman abilities due to their bodies' compatibility with the virus.

And all of this can be done in the fetishized outfit of your choice.

While Chris is definitely the hard-trained brute of the two, both agents are equally capable, with Sheva acrobatically dispatching, shooting, and stabbing hordes of Majini just as Chris can (violently) punch them, break their necks, or... well ... shoot 'em (I mean, the game IS rated M).

Chris and Sheva's mission through Africa culminates in the death of Tricell's head, Excella Gionne, and a final showdown with the maniacal Albert Wesker, who in the climax of the ending battle, gets entangled with Chris - which subsequently results in Sheva stabbing the absolute HELL out of him - finally embedding her blade in his heart, seemingly putting him down for good (if only it were that easy...).

Resident Evil 5 was a game that drew more than enough criticism, from the pundits who claimed the game was racist (which makes no sense whatsoever), to the gamers that said the game wasn't true to the series' roots of actually being scary (fair assessment), to those who said that Sheva (or Chris, or Jill Valentine, or Josh Stone, depending on who you play as) suffered from less-than-stellar A.I., however I feel that Sheva was a pleasant addition to the series. Even considering her odd wardrobe.