Gallery of the Day – Virtual Sharks

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.

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In a game lauded for its original graphics they spared no expense for the toothy one, from Okami.

Very rarely do you encounter a friendly shark in games but the folks at Pixar figured out a way, from Finding Nemo.

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Ecco can’t be friends with everything in the ocean so they gave him the perfect enemy, from the Ecco series.

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.

Leave it to Armed and Dangerous to take the shark out of the water and put it in the palm of your hand.

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The reason that Banjo can’t enjoy the water, from the Banjo Kazooie series.

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Because everything is bigger in the World of Warcraft.