10 Video Games That Let You Become A Literal Monster
7. Maneater
Jaws, the film, glamourised the notion that sharks are the brutal, ruthless killers of the deep. And well, they can be... but they're also not. They're actually quite docile unless provoked or you're leaking red stuff into the sea.
That being said, Maneater would be boring if you played as a toothier version of Ecco the Dolphin, pootling about the sea and chatting with your shark friends.
Instead, you evolve from pup to megalodon-sized predator and wreak merry hell on a coastal southern town. And you know what?
It's great fun doing it.
Taking on all comers, whether it be land or sea life, chomping down fish and humans for sustenance and evolution points, is a sheer thrill. Growing bigger, kitting out your killer with new abilities and evolutionary traits is worth the investment,
Cresting the water to dive-bomb a hunter's boat, scrabbling round on land to interrupt a garden party on a quay before diving back into the briney is simplistic joy at its best.
It even makes the humans look like the monsters in this one. There, something to think about.