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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
