quote HBK619

This scared the shit out of me the first time I went through Ravenholm. It's because everything else, you hear the bullets or the footsteps, this, the screen jolts and you're being hacked at by a zombie which came from no where. By the time you've loaded two shotgun shells through the headcrab, or sawed it in half with the gravity gun, support is arriving in numbers, yet you only have one saw blade, so you see how many you can take down at once. Then the saw is stuck in the wall, and zombies are in the way, you search for something else, see a table and take down a whole wave of them with a single table, pick up your rusty saw blade and walk off like nothing happened. The survival instincts develop after a little while in Ravenholm, but those headcrabs and the poisonous headcrab throwing SOBs always caught me off guard and made me jump.

In the respect of actual enemies, after the initial shock factor, they're probably the easiest to kill, and the most fun to set on fire or throw can of paint at. They can't attack you from a distance, and they move quite slowly. However, as soon as you master them, those skinny things which run all over the place come at you and shotgun shells begin to fly all over the place.