There's only one more day until Halloween, so I hope you've made time to play some frightening games this month. There have been many, many lists of the scariest games ever out there, and honestly I had planned on doing another one. But I've decided against it. Instead I've decided to talk about horror in video games in a more general sense. Because when you think about it, fear permeates all kinds of games. Whether its something as simple as the anxiety you feel in a close deathmatch or race, or a moment designed to make you jump out of your seat, fear is a part of almost any game you can think of. Check out Chris Ward's hilarious comparison of Alone in the Dark and Cake Mania as one example. After the jump I've got a few more. This post contains spoilers.

I'm a big fan of survival horror games, such as the recently released Dead Space. But despite playing through countless games like Resident Evil, Condemned, The Suffering, and more, nothing I've ever experienced in a game scared me as much as the plaza attack in the first Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (I came up empty on finding a video of it). If you haven't played it, this moment comes at the end of a level early in the game. You've finished your objectives, cleared all the enemies and on your way to the rally point. Everything is clear as you run across the plaza - the, boom! An explosion rips through the rally point, killing a key character and sending you scrambling to defend your position as enemy troops come at you from all sides. I've never experienced anything else in a game that made my heart pound and palms seat like that.

Several other non-horror games have featured moments that throw the player for shocking loops. Take, for example, the revelation of why Kratos' skin is white in the first God of War. Or, check out this particularly nasty scene from The Darkness (which is a very dark game, but doesn't qualify as a horror game in my book):

Behold Manhunt, the only game I ever stopped playing because of moral repulsion:

Within the horror genre, there have been several games that manage to be truly unsettling. Check out this hilarious video of the legitimately creepy Doom 3:

Although it devolves into silliness near the end, no one gets through the original Condemned without getting creeped out:

This list only scratches the surface of games that feature truly unsettling moments. There are creepy, chilling, unsettling scenes to be found in games like BioShock, the Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and Resident Evil series, Clock Tower, Clive Barker's The Undying, System Shock 2, and many more. What scenes or experiences in games have taken you by surprise or made you jump out of your seat? Sound off in the Comments.