Yes, Resident Evil 6 sucked, and this series has pretty much fallen off, but few people can argue that the first time they saw this abomination in part four that they didn’t piss their pants at least a TINY bit, because we all did. Though it may have had a name like a bad Taco Bell menu item, El Gigante was everything we loved about bosses. Big and scary as hell. While the Resident Evil series has ALWAYS had some amazing, huge, intimidating bosses, this motherf**ker was uprooting trees and using them as a baseball bat, and every second of it was pure, adrenaline-fueled fun.
I think what really sold me on this boss battle though was his intro. If you recall, the infected villagers had it held captive, like a sort of sick, abused pet, and the first chance it has to get away, it pretty much kills everything in its path. You are one of the things in its path, and the whole point of that scene is to NOT be one of the things it kills without mercy or regard.
[zergpaid]What I liked about this battle is the real sense of fear you felt when you knew it wanted you dead. At a primal level, this thing is scary looking. You add its size to the mix, and you suddenly see your odds of survival less and less likely, which puts a real rushed sense of fear in you as you play. Granted, the area around the battle is STACKED with ammo, and he does repeat patterns, but still, the fight was amazing.
On top of all that, it had a second form, like most Resident Evil bosses had. Still, nothing beat the first few moments of that battle, and the feeling you get the first time it roars at you and the screen shakes.
