- Spuriusrex
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- Honorable Member
Jenkins' helmet camera was what did it for me. The mystery from the mutilated corpses, the freak accidents that the team had witnessed, the destruction of the catacombs beneath the swamp, unexplained fires everywhere, etc. And then to hear the infection forms crawling that moment that everyone goes quiet and then that intense moment as the cutscene ends and you see in the corner of the screen "The Flood" was indescribably.
First time playing, I was in jr. high probably 12 yrs old in 7th grade. I immediately hid in a corner and waited for each door of infection forms to break open. I shot every last one before they got to me. But then...when the combat forms appeared...and that final door bursted open...my heart started racing and I was scared to death. I didn't know what had happened at first. My screen had flashed red, I had heard a weird gargling noise, and turned around to find this weird, terrifying monster. I shotgunned the first, it got back up, I said WTF!, shot it again, cleared the room, and hid for a while debating whther to keep playing through the level or not. I literally inched out of the first encounter room up the ramp to the dead marine bodies, I ran without looking back and did a combination of hiding and running until meeting up with the rest of the marines outside. Some of the scariest points were the very small corridors, that would often have a single combat form in them, off in one of the side rooms. Haha I remember the first time an angered Flood combat form rushed me full on to claw me. What a scary and yet epic moment.