Some of the flawless examples of this benefit of FPS games is the sheer shock and fear all of us felt when a headcrab suddenly came jumping at the screen out of nowhere in Half Life or when the main antagonist and extremely scary figure of the little girl Alma suddenly appeared out of darkness in the survival horror FPS F.E.A.R.
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The video comes courtesy of a UK-based film company called Realm Pictures. If you’d like to check it out, you can do so in the video above.
A huge effort went into making the experience as realistic as possible.
The video – which has already been viewed nearly 1.5 million times – shows unsuspecting Chatroulette users controlling the actions of a real-action, first-person-perspective video game protagonist.
All these effects were combined on one main computer, and then streamed to random strangers on the internet over different live video chat services.
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“According to Reynolds’ caption for the YouTube video, he and his set team “…created a live action first-person zombie shooter in our garden – then invited unsuspecting people on Chatroulette, Omegle and Skype to take control…” “It’s pretty cool fun”.
