The survival-horror genre has a surprising amount of female protagonists, and many of them are well-known characters in the gaming world.
GI have listed their favorite survival-horror babes, as well as some classics that older fans may have forgotten.
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Mention Survival horror and it immediately garners images of Chris Redfield blasting zombies or James Sunderland bludgeoning pyramid heads with a plank of wood. But in the survival horror genre there are as many iconic female protagonists as there are male. Gaming_Issues pay homage to them today.
Name: Jill Valentine
Series: Resident Evil
Appearance: Jill Jill Jill. Where would Resident Evil be without you? Originally appearing in RE1 as a member of the Special Tactics And Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S) Miss Valentine became a gaming icon. She was no damsel in distress and fans embraced that.
Jill once again took the helm in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis where she decked herself out in a blue boob tube and leather short skirt much to the pleasure of us male fans. In 1998 she was voted one of the hottest PSX beauties since Lara Croft by PSX Magazine and we can see why!
We certainly won't question a girl who wears a sweater around her waist without seeing the logic that it could concievably offer some protection from the cold and the slavering teeth of zombies. She's trying to please us, or so we keep telling ourselves.
Name: Heather
Series: Silent Hill
Appearance: The Silent Hill girls have always been a fascination to us. They aren't perfect game babes with flawless skin, ample chests and cheery personalities. Often they are your typical girl next door with a few flaws here and there. And we love them for that!
Heather was the first female protagonist in the Silent Hill series and remains our favorite. We like her freckles, her feisty attitude and even her unflattering vest (it leaves more to the imagination). She had more emotion than all previous protagonists' combined. Sorry Harry and James.
Her nonchalent reaction to various corpses, creatures and horrors late in the game had us in awe. We would have messed our pants at such sights but Heather took it all in her stride.
Name: Rei Kurosawa
Series: Fatal Frame
Appearance: Rei makes her first appearance in Fatal Frame 3 as a 23 year old widowed photographer whose fiance died in a car accident. We would rejoice her newfound single status, but her fiance's death lead her to chase his ghost into an abandoned haunted house which lead to the game's plot. We've got to hand it to her, the girl is determined!
If there is something we love more than women, it's Asian women. And Tecmo is known for its beautiful Asian women - just take a look at the Dead or Alive series. But while Rei might be lacking the chest area, she makes up for it with her realistic and beautiful features as well as her unlockable costumes which include; a french maid outfit, a cat suit and a kimono.
But it's her infamous shower scenes that us male fans remembered the most.
She was also voted IGN's Babe of the Day in 2005. It's not hard to see why!
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The others ... not so much.
Especially Aya and Jill.
Am I the only one who prefers Jill over Claire? She was a better character, imo. And more iconic to the series.
I'm one of the people you're least likely to offend but this game did just that.
Oh and the woman who "played" Jill in the intro of RE1 was damn hot.
I like Jill the best out of them.I don't have a massive poster of Jill on my wall for nothing.
Where's the girls from Foribdden Siren? They were okay.
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