10 Best Fight Scenes In Gaming History
The greatest showdowns in video games.
Gods, aliens, robots, monsters: some of the best fight scenes gaming has to offer run the full gamut in interspecies fisticuffs. The further from human they are, the more bombastic a showdown is guaranteed to be.
Bar one, not a single belligerent on this list can truly say they're 100% homosapiens, which means every grudge match and long-running feud goes far beyond a mundane bar brawl until the hero or villain collapses in a sweaty heap on the floor.
In this royale rumble, we've got deific power, parasitic viruses, alien DNA, space magic, and everything in between as the secret sauce responsible for top-tier, spectacle-laden skirmishes.
Whether you like to consume your violence in a cinematic or interactive format, every base is covered by an eclectic collection of renowned studios able to put their money where their mouth is.
Square Enix deserves special mention for rounding out the roster with three Final Fantasy-themed entrants (shocker), but it doesn't quite manage to wrestle the top spot from another storied Japanese developer. The West represents with Sony Santa Monica and Ubisoft's God of War and Assassin's Creed respectively, but the teasers stop there. The time for words has passed.
10. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Sephiroth Vs. Genesis Vs. Angeal
Bar none, Genesis is the worst Final Fantasy character Square Enix has ever created. The SOLDIER member's repeated recitals of Loveless whenever Zack encounters him are eye-rollingly dull, but by word, can the man fight.
His friendly (but not really) tussle with Sephiroth and Angeal atop Shinra's Sister Ray represents one of Crisis Core's most memorable moments, despite not being playable. As you'll see throughout this article alone, Square is unmatched in the quantity of its cinematic gaming splendor, and the three-way training session between the three former heroes of Midgar is delectable, to say the least. Even now, it's the only proper depiction of Sephiroth in battle as the good guy before he discovers his heinous origin and devolves into madness, the low stakes of their 'playfight' superbly rendered and realised even on a console as modest as Sony's PSP.
Not until the release of FF7 Remake over a decade later, would Jenova's unwitting offspring be granted a follow-up on-screen brawl to rival the gratuitousness of this clash, and it still holds up even today as one of the very best games have to offer.