10 Most Terrifying Video Game Moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOnAf0uMFc The nights are drawing in, supermarket shelves are fully stocked with "spooky" spins on their usual candied products, the cinema listings are heaving with sequels, and Shinji Mikami has a new game out - yep, Halloween's certainly on its way. More than any of those films, ghost stories or genuinely quite frightening chocolates (seriously, have you seen those Screme Eggs?), video games have a unique way of getting under people's skin, especially at this time of year. Watching a good horror flick, or being told a particularly scary tale, you still have a degree of distance between yourself and whoever's having bad things done to them. When you're playing a game, it's happening to you. Well, not necessarily you, but the character you're controlling. And the link between person, joypad, and on-screen interactions is a strong one. In the same way that players will freak out uncontrollably when they're the victim of a cheap shot in Call Of Duty, or feel immensely proud when their trainer wins the Pokemon league, when a terrifying scene crops up in a video game, our responses aren't unlike what they'd be if we were actually being cornered by zombies, stalked through the mist by monsters, or when our wireless controllers die. This Halloween players all over the world will be sitting down to The Evil Within, the new survival horror from the master of the genre, Shinji Mikami. Inspired by what looks like a ruddy petrifying next-gen experience, here are ten of the most terrifying video game moments... before everybody gets their hands on that, anyway.