Back from the dead

Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus (and chocolate eggs), who rose from the grave after being crucified three days earlier. This was clearly a big deal back in those days, but miracles like this are a common occurrence in video game land. Today we take a look at the best of them; the moments when our favourite games and characters give death the middle finger and returned to our screens.

Be careful going forward from here - while spoilers are kept to a bare minimum, the nature of the article requires speaking about the death of certain characters.

Captain Price - Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4 ends with Captain Price lying in a pool of blood on a dilapidated Russian highway as a squad mate frantically tries to resuscitate him. Suffice to say, things don't look good for the moustached hero, not good at all. As the credits roll, we can only assume he's popped his clogs. But then, two years later when Modern Warfare 2 arrives on the scene - there he is! Alive and well! Well, not that well, actually - he was incarcerated in a Russian Gulag for the several years separating the two games, after all. Even so, the return of Price made his army of fans very happy bunnies indeed.