6. Escorting Characters In Dead Rising
Escort missions had something of a boom around the Resident Evil 4 period, with Ashleys increasingly whiney LEON!! soundbite grating on even the most patient of zombie-slayers. However, king of the escort mission groan is Dead Rising. For any of the unacquainted, the mission structure within this free-roaming zombie-sandbox involved you venturing out into a shopping mall to track down fellow survivors, and after thwacking a whole cinema-full of the undead with a golf club, you had to shepherd the horrifically basic AI back to home base. In some of the more sparse outdoor areas this was never so much of a problem, but as the game progressed and the infection spread alongside other antagonists who were baying for your blood, getting a small crew of automatons home without being turned into mulch was an exercise in not turning the gun on yourself.