Despite the fact that the gaming industry relies mainly on projects with male heroes in the lead roles, this trend is gradually changing towards gender equality. More and more games are starting to present concepts with strong and interesting women who become excellent role models for players of both sexes.
Pixel heroines have always been in the industry, but only the trends were completely different before. It was rarely possible to meet a project with a well-registered woman who was someone more than just a partner or a beautiful picture. However, “rarely” does not mean at all that there are no positive examples from the past. Fortunately, before, some of the igrodelov tried to make their protagonists worthy of the protagonists. And many of them are still considered standards! We present to our readers a list of the best female characters from games that every self-respecting gamer should familiarize himself with.
Dampyre Rhine from BloodRayne
The first game on our list was very popular in the early 2000s. This was one of the few episodes of the time, the main protagonist of which was a woman.
Question: what is the name of the female character in the game, the title of which has a direct reference to the bloody rain? Of course, the Rhine (approx. The name Rhine is consonant with the English word rain, meaning "rain"). Rhine is a young dampyr, fighting other creatures of darkness and dangerous supernatural beings. It is thanks to the main character that the game series gained immense popularity, and this is not at all surprising.
Raine is a very bright and prominent girl, and her main weapon is two huge blades on her wrists, with which the dampyr skillfully kills her many opponents. In addition, she knows how to use other types of weapons, usually falling from defeated enemies, and is also very good at performing various acrobatic stunts. Thanks to the dampiric origin (half vampire, half human) Rhine can use supernatural abilities in battle and drink blood to restore his own health.
Faith from Mirror's Edge
Female characters from games can appear before players in projects of a wide variety of genres. For example, Mirror's Edge is a unique adventure thriller where the core of the gameplay lies in the parkour skills of the main character. Speaking of her. The role of the main protagonist in Mirror's Edge was given to 24-year-old Faith Conors, working as an illegal courier in the city of a dystopian future. In the game world, all police channels and the receipt of any information are monitored by the state police. The only more or less safe alternative are messages that are transmitted by special couriers, the so-called runners. Faith - one of the "running". Every day she overcomes dangerous routes passing through the highest skyscrapers in order to deliver a hidden message from one customer to another. Faith works "running" not only in order to earn money, but also in order to oppose the regime she hates, which is connected with her difficult past.
Kate Archeris No One Lives Forever
"Nobody lives forever" - this is another series of cult games with a female character in the title role, whose peak of popularity fell at the beginning of the 2000s. The plot revolves around Kate Archer - a skilled spy and special agent, who is an employee of the highly secret organization UNITY.
By work, Kate often happens in various exotic places in the world and meets not the most pleasant people. Her arsenal is always filled with deadly guns and a variety of spy gadgets. In addition, the main character has excellent skills in disguise and stealth, so if you wish, the player can go through any mission without firing a single shot.
Victoria from Still Life
The next on the list are the detective quests Still Life - another exciting game with the main female character on the PC. The plot focuses on an FBI agent named Victoria McPherson, who deals with the most complex and bloody murders in Chicago. The game has some pretty chilling scenes showing crime scenes, and the specifics of how serial killings are investigated in great detail.
Still Life is, first of all, a quest, which means that a player will find many interesting puzzles and puzzles in it. Most of them are really complex and intriguing, but some may seem a little pointless and even far-fetched. But this is not scary, because the most important advantages of the game are still an exciting plot and a memorable main protagonist.
Jadiz Beyond Good and Evil
The events of the next game from our list of games with the main female character take place in the distant future. The plot will take us to the distant future on the unusual planet of Chili, whose locals are abducted by monstrous alien creatures known as DoomTs. The central character in the game is a girl named Jade. As a photojournalist, she decides to join the local resistance to launch her own investigation. Together with Jade, players have to get to the bottom of the truth and find out who is actually behind all the abductions. And the numerous photographs that can be taken during the game will help to prove the aliens' cooperation with the Alpha Corps, created to protect the local population.
Alice from Alice: Madness Returns
Throughout its existence, the Lewis Carroll fairy tale received a variety of adaptations, however, what the Alice: Madness Returns game represents is something truly gloomy, creepy and crazy. The main character, as you might guess, is Alice herself. The girl is tormented by a deep emotional shock, because of which she often finds herself in the grip of the world of dreams and very unusual fantasies. There, in Wonderland, Alice is faced with a local evil, which she will have to fight back, otherwise evil can destroy everything in its path and devour the already distraught kingdom.
MaxCalfildiz Life is Strange
The next game with a female character in the title role is well known to gamers of a newer, modern generation. The recently released adventure with elements of interactive cinema was able to win the hearts of millions of players around the world. Why so love Life is Strange? Of course, for the warm "tube" atmosphere and for the colorful characters.
The main character of the plot is a teenage girl named Maxine (Max) Caulfield. She, along with her friend Chloe Price, becomes a participant in very strange events, which is hinted at by the name of the game itself. As we said earlier, Life is Strange is an interactive movie that tells the whole story in several separate episodes. The heroes of the events were ordinary teenagers with whom not quite normal events occur (and again the title title warns us!). There is murder, superpowers and even a huge tornado - in general, we advise you to play as soon as possible.
Bayonetta Witch of Bayonetta
We introduce our readers to one of the best and most stylish slashers, which recently became available on PC. His main character is a charming witch named Bayonet. Bayonetta fights with cunning angels and uses in battle a huge variety of deadly attacks and cool tricks that allow her to deal with opponents equally effectively both at close and long distances.
Say right away, no other female characters from the games can compare with Bayonetta in strength and danger. By the way, Hideki Kamiya, better known as the “father” of the cult Devil May Cry series, was responsible for developing the choreography and image of the witch.
Female characters from the Resident Evil series
Resident Evil is a real storehouse of strong and charming heroines. From the very first parts of the series, the user could choose exactly the female character as the main protagonist. This choice concerned both the main plot campaigns and additions.
The original RE, released back in 1996, made it possible to play for Jill Valentine, a bold special agent from the STARS squad. In the number sequence, the main character of one of the scripts was Claire Redfield, the younger sister of another protagonist in the series Chris Redfield. In RE 3: Nemesis, players were waiting for a new meeting with Jill, and an addition to RE 4 called SeparateWays presented an optional campaign with Ada Wong in the lead role. In RE Zero, you can control two protagonists at once; the role of one of them is assigned to Rebecca Chambers - the feldsher of the Bravo group from the STARS squad already familiar to us. And this is not the whole list of heroines found in the Resident Evil series.
Kate Walker from Syberia
Siberia is a truly magical quest that falls in love with its unique atmosphere, touching history and memorable characters. The main protagonist is the charming American Kate Walker. Mies Walker arrives from the United States in a remote European place called Valadilen, hidden deep in the Alps. Kate arrives not just like that, but for work. As an attorney for a large New York company, the girl goes to conclude a contract to sell the Voralberg mechanical toy factory. However, upon arrival, the main character is faced with unforeseen circumstances that lead to the main adventure of her life.
Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3
In the third part of the iconic legendary horror Silent Hill, players finally had the opportunity to go through a story campaign for a female protagonist. The mysterious town of Silent Hill is visited by a young girl, Heather Mason, who, in fact, is not as simple as it might seem at first glance.
According to the plot, Heather becomes a participant in difficult, creepy and rather tragic events, which is why her measured life turns into an unbearable nightmare. To stop the madness happening with her, the heroine arrives in Silent Hill. It’s only on the spot that the nightmare becomes even harder and more realistic, and Heather begins to learn new terrible details about his true origin.
Silent Hill is a truly unique experience that every horror and storyteller fan must experience. Therefore, if one of our readers is not yet familiar with this series, we advise you not to postpone the trip to Silent Hill for a long time and go there as soon as possible!
Lara Croft from Tomb Raider
And concludes our list of games today, where the female character is the main protagonist, a cult series about the fearless tomb raider. The first Tomb Raider, one of the founders of the TPS genre (third-person shooter), was released in 1996. The adventures of the charming lady Croft continue to delight fans to this day. Being one of the most popular gaming franchises, Tomb Raider has long gone beyond the boundaries of games alone - a huge number of different comics, books and films have been created based on it.
The main character is a tomb raider, an aristocrat, smart, beautiful and just a good girl named Lara Croft. In each game, Lara goes on an exciting and dangerous journey to find the lost treasure and at the same time save the whole world from some impending threat. Unlike the old parts of the series, modern reboots showed Miss Croft a more lively and “real” character, who is not alien to suffering and mistakes.
Unique heroines of MMO and RPG
A variety of MMO projects and most of the modern (and not so) RPGs also give the opportunity to play for a female protagonist. The main feature of the gameplay of any MMO is already built around creating your own character. This means that the user himself chooses who he should be - a man, a woman, or some other unknown creature. MMO is a great opportunity to create a unique virtual heroine based on their own standards. Customization affects the most diverse elements of the game: from nicknames for female characters to the smallest details in appearance, you can customize everything.
As for RPGs, exceptions are exceptions to stories with an already prescribed character, in which you can not change either gender or voice. In this case, the vast majority of RPGs still give the choice of the gender of their protagonist. Users can customize various characteristics and details of the image to their taste for both male and female characters: name in the game, skin color, race, hair and eye color, physique, etc.
Just say that all of the above games for female characters on a PC do not constitute a complete list of such projects. In fact, there are many more such games and it would be simply impossible to fit them all into one small material. Therefore, we tried to focus on the most popular projects, whose main platform is PC.