10 Scariest Video Game Moments Nobody Saw Coming

5. Ravenholm In Half Life 2

Half Life 2 Ravenholm
Valve Corporation

Despite the game's obvious status as a classic, there's always been something a little weird about geeky scientist Gordon Freeman becoming a gun-toting bad ass in the Half Life series. By HL2, Freeman has already battered hundreds of alien lifeforms around the head with a crowbar and evaded certain death by shooting everything in sight.

None of that could have prepared him for Ravenholm. When sidekick Alyx Vance points out the entrance to the place and warns Gordon that, "we don't go there anymore", Ravenholm becomes intriguing. Few could gave guessed that it'd turn Half Life 2 from epic, story-driven FPS obsessed with physics into a more modern (first person) version of Resident Evil 2.

The first few moments in Ravenholm just feel more dangerous and threatening than anything else in the game. There, players are first introduced to the poison head crabs and quicker zombies too. Also, just how freaky a character is Father Grigori. The guy willingly stays there.

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