10 Best Enemy AI In Video Games
9. Jack Baker - Resident Evil 7
Despite not being Resident Evil 7's primary antagonist, the Baker family's patriarch is unquestionably its most memorable. Capcom mercilessly threw the aging formula for its flagship survival horror in the bin with RE's seventh installment, preferring to wipe the slate clean and start anew with fresh ideas. Jack was the first in the studio's obsession with marrying its storied IP with AI, the pairing resulting in a murderous, relentless Mold Man who'd stop at nothing to give Ethan Winters a Glasgow smile and a lot more besides.
His ability to stalk RE7's unwitting hero is notably more limited than, say, a certain Tyrant we'll say hello to later, but Jack's compact stomping ground arguably works in his favour. To say nothing of the liberating endorphin rush felt when finally escaping the Baker family home, its claustrophobic hallways and adjoining rooms deny any sense of security. This is Jack's realm; the everyman-turned-lunatic's presence is always looming and your only option when his face slips through a tentatively-opened door is to haul arse in the other direction.
Admittedly, that scare factor is diminished on repeated playthroughs due to the heavily scripted nature of certain sequences, but our boy has more than earned lip service as the progenitor of nightmares Capcom would later create.