5. Resident Evil The First Zombie
You might look back at this original Resident Evil FMV now and laugh: http://youtu.be/Mgr1zoSB9dM But I remember a time when this image was seared into the fear-centre of my brain, and plagued my nightmares for weeks afterwards. Of course I was just a nipper then, barely knee-high to a grasshopper, and I was admittedly much easier to scare. But you have to remember, Resident Evil 1 was the first of its kind and one of the earliest games to feature a scene like this. It literally rocked the world. We just hadnt seen anything like it before and if you were there in the beginning, youll remember how jaw-droppingly scary this first encounter actually was in the moment. Of course it wasnt just the FMV that filled our drawers; it was the ensuing scramble to kill the fiend too. As I said, Survival Horror was a brand new genre back then this first encounter represents one of the quickest, most terrifying learning curves in gaming history. You had seconds to learn to shoot straight, and if you failed, you were simply the next meal.