In honor of Shark Week, we here at The Escapist have decided to pay homage to the apex of pixel predators – Sharks in Video Games.
You can’t have a list of sharks in video games without mentioning the one that started it all, from Jaws: Unleashed.
[page]In a game lauded for its original graphics they spared no expense for the toothy one, from Okami.
[page]Very rarely do you encounter a friendly shark in games but the folks at Pixar figured out a way, from Finding Nemo.
[page]Ecco can’t be friends with everything in the ocean so they gave him the perfect enemy, from the Ecco series.
[page]Link had to go searching for his shark in one of the rare times that the predatory beast is considered an Easter egg, from The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.
[page]Leave it to Armed and Dangerous to take the shark out of the water and put it in the palm of your hand.
[page]The reason that Banjo can’t enjoy the water, from the Banjo Kazooie series.
[page]Because everything is bigger in the World of Warcraft.
Published: Aug 5, 2013 07:00 pm