10 Insane Video Game Mechanics You Won't Believe Are Real

10. Immortality - Neverdead

Unless you’re playing something where permadeath is a very real concern, meeting your grisly end in most games usually just means restarting from a checkpoint.

That isn’t to say you can’t die in Rebellion Developments’ 2012 shooter/hack and slash hybrid Neverdead. However, what makes the game stand out from its contemporaries is that getting your head severed from your body - usually an act reserved for the one hit kills of the gaming world - is far from the end. In fact, sometimes it's a good thing.

Cursed by immortality 500 years ago, Neverdead’s protagonist Bryce Boltzmann can keep on fighting even as he gets torn to literal pieces. Losing your arms means you can no longer fight but if you can find your dismembered limbs you can attach them in no time. If his legs get removed then Bryce will hop or crawl around in search of them. Even being decapitated isn’t the end, and rolling around as a severed head is often used to navigate hard to reach areas.

And that’s not even mentioning Bryce’s ability to turn himself into the human torch and walk away unharmed.

Neverdead’s bizarre disinterest in having a protagonist who can keep all their body parts together makes it a very unique experience and it uses this concept to its fullest from start to end.