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8 Military Heroes From Our Favorite Videogames

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To celebrate Veterans Day we give you the short list of some military heroes from our favorite videogames.

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Jim Raynor, from StarCraft, is known to be a decent and honorable man. Both of those things can usually lead to someone being known as a true hero, well that and a bunch of dead Zerg.

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Snake Eyes, from GI Joe: Rise of Cobra, may not speak but his sword does more than enough talking for everyone.

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No matter what you think of Mass Effect 3 I’m sure that we can all agree that Commander Shepard deserves a bit of respect.

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In the Metal Gear franchise Snake is one person that you do not want to run into.

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Much like a phoenix Marcus Phoenix, of the Gears of War series, has risen to every challenge that has been thrown at him.

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There aren’t many sympathetic characters in the Call of Duty franchise but Simon “Ghost” Riley is definitely one of them.

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In the Halo universe there aren’t that many characters that are as heroic as Master Chief.

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Roland, of the Borderlands world, takes the lead against many of the baddies.


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