or the guy in Dead Space...
I just found a major flaw in this thread. I don't know what happens to Max Payne, or the guy in Condemned or the guy in Doom. Perhaps we should describe shortly what happens to the ones we 'nominate'.
I'll go first, since it's my job.
Okay, guy in Dead Space, he's called Isaac or something. He's in reality a telereparator...in space. He's part of a team that goes to a space station or something that has problems with its communication. The problem is everyone on board is dead and aliens, predictably, has invaded the place and wants to bit Isaac's butt off. Now, ordinary repair guy, having to go around a dark, dirty space station, on his own, where blood is more poular than paint as a means to cover the walls, and dead bodies have grown extra limbs and are trying to make him dead as well.
Okay, this is obviously a poor description of things, it doesn't do the game justice, but the point is, shit happens and the poor guy has to be fucked in the head after what he has to go through.
Okay, now for the F.E.A.R guy. Don't know his name, but he is a genetically enhanced super solider part of a elite unit of similarly enhanced super soldiers. the unit is called F.E.A.R by the way. Now, I have only seen a bit of one of the expansion packs, but it is one of the most scary things I have seen, evar. Blood stains everywhere, screaming in the hallways, monster things trying to kill you, little girls imprevious to bullets with a nasty knack of killing you with one touch, freaky alternative dimensions. Sahit like that has to mess with the mind, it just has to.