When it comes to scary video game monsters, size matters not

Forget about skyscraper-sized bosses and zombies — it’s the little things you have to watch out for.

Developers have been sending players out to battle increasingly giant monsters in their games, including the massive, sentient statues in Shadow of the Colossus, the mountain-sized Titan Gaia in God of War III, and whatever the hell that crab monster is at the end of Dead Space: Extraction.