10 Best Video Game Boss Battles Of The Decade
9. The Marker (Dead Space 2)
One of the best survival horror series ever made (until EA... EA'd all over it), Dead Space chilled audiences with its Ridley Scott-esque setup, and kept them captivated and coming back for more with rich lovecraftian lore that - like any good lore - added to the core experience rather than weighing it down.
And then they came back and did it all over again, but better, in the sequel.
There's very little about Dead Space 2 that can be said that showing wouldn't accomplish. But the final boss, simply known as The Marker, is a particularly exceptional case here.
At first glance it's little more than several waves of enemies rushing you one after the other and then you win. But then as you go throughout the boss fight, The Marker starts flexing its potent psychic abilities by using visions of your dead love interest to throw you off your game. By now it's been revealed that she's been dead the whole time, but that doesn't make it less distracting.
It doesn't sound all that frightening on paper, but when you play the game, it's one of the scariest moments in one of the scariest games ever made.