Nightmare Fuel / Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

• At least you could kill the Descendants in the previous game. Shamballa Guardians in Among Thieves are Immune to Bullets when you first meet them, and ONE almost kills both you and Tenzin. Later, after you think you're safe, they start slaughtering soldiers in the monastery. And once you get used to that, they whip out one of the most powerful and accurate weapons in the game. Much pain and fleeing to heal ensues.
• Shambala, the fabled Shangri-La, the Utopia of the Himalayasis nothing but a decaying ruin protected by the psychotic Guardians, long since driven mad by their abuse of the sap from the Tree of Life. If Marco Polos records are any indication, it wasnt much better even at it's height. There's a reason for why Marco Polo murdered his fellow travellers and covered up all he had discovered during his visit to Shambala.
• You're climbing up another wall as usual, with some cavern rocks in silhouette in the foreground. Then one of the "rocks" opens its eyes and leaps out of sight.
• The game's Big Bad, Zoran Lazarević, is pretty frightening on so many levels. He's a power-hungry, ruthless, sociopathic Serbian war criminal who was responsible for killing and torture on a mass scale.
  • His Establishing Character Moment alone should tell you something about him: when he finds out that one of his own men was caught stealing a trinket from his camp, Lazarević's response is to knife the poor guy and toss his body off into the swamp, whilst angrily hamming it up about how he's "surrounded by traitors and fools". The fact that he willfully puts his soldiers in danger and doesn't have a care in the world about their well-being is shows just how heartlessly evil and ungodly scary he is.
  • When he begins ranting about how historical tyrants like Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Genghis Khan and Pol Pot were "great men", you know that Drake is in for some serious trouble. Case in point: at the end of the game, Lazarević finds the Cintamani Stone—actually resin in a gigantic primordial Tree of Life—and drinks it, making him virtually invincible against gunshots during his Final Boss fight between him and Drake. Considering the amount of violence that this man is said to have caused in the past, along with his aforementioned comments about Hilter, Pol Pot, Stalin, and Genghis Khan, it's strongly implied that Lazarević was essentially going to use his newfound abilities to achieve world domination, making him probably the greatest threat that Drake has faced in the series.
  • His death is quite horrific. Granted he deserved it, but him being ganged up on and beaten into paste by the Guardians while screaming in terror is still rather chilling.
• The end of the train level where Nate gets shot in the gut can be rather intense, mainly for being the one time where Harry Flynn truly looks menacing. His Tranquil Fury as he closes in for the kill quickly turns into full-blown rage as Nate retreats, all while showing none of his usual charm and ease.
  Flynn: You just don't know when to quit, do you? What, no witty remark? Nothing clever to say?!
• The Spike trap, in which Chloe and Nate scramble around as the ceiling comes closer, only for both of them to drop their snark if you aren't quick enough to solve the puzzle, with Chloe screaming "OH GOD DO SOME-" before hearing both her and Nate's screams cut off by a disgusting SQUISH!