If your town is overtaken by zombies, dinosaurs, or rabid animals, here are 10 lessons that survival-horror games have taught us to help survive through such situations.
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Nature Wants You Dead:
Every single time you cross paths with him in a game, "man's best friend" never lives up to the name. Maybe it's the flesh-eating virus he's infected with. Maybe he's just pissed you're out of Beggin’Strips. Either way, that doggie and all his kin are out for blood.

And it's not just dogs either. Crows, spiders, elephants... every creature on the planet has your number in Resident Evil. And Parasite Eve fleshes out that list with cats, crabs, and polar bears. Heck, dinosaurs have been dead for millions of years, but when they show up in a game, they don't like you either.

Invade People's Privacy:
Find somebody’s diary? Stumble across the correspondence letters of two star-crossed lovers? How about memos addressed to employees at a company you don't even work for? Emily Post be damned, you read that stuff like you need it to live!

Who knows what secrets those precious documents hold? I mean, every time I write my girlfriend a letter, I include the pass code to the locked metal door in my basement which is so much more romantic than that Love, Adam”crap.

And yesterday, I found a bar napkin with a hastily scribbled phone number in one corner, so I snatched it right up. Chances are, those digits are actually the combination to a safe with a crossbow in it!
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    Disillusioned Jan 17, 09
    Everything on that list is so true =O
    Exspecially that one about shops still selling even though the rest of the world is dead, handy but unrealistic.
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    dwg14390 Jan 18, 09
    I can't believe they forgot the most important thing of all. "never split up"

    Either you:
    a) Die a horrible and painfull death that could have been totally avoidable by bringing a damn friend along.
    b) get locked in a stupid cell with no food or water wondering if your friends left you already
    c) Get shot by your friend by surprising him accidentally

    It always goes wrong =/

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