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10 Video Game Animals That You Can Kill For Food

This isn't your father's roadkill gourmet.

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Whether you're carving up a turkey, ham, tofurkey or all of the above, you won't be able to match the grubbing habits of some of the characters in your favorite video games. How about a juicy, medium rare mole rat steak or a few slices of a nuclear mutated ant? Could you live with yourself if you chow-downed on a cute and feathery chocobo? All of those edibles and more are up for grabs in this 10 Video Game Animals That You Can Kill For Food gallery. Bon Apetit!

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10. Snakes

Game: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Nutritional Value: High in stamina
Edible Part: Whole body

Try the Tsuchinoko. The taste is outstanding

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9. Bloat Fly

Game: Fallout 3
Nutritional Value: Health
Edible Part: Torso

Who would've thought such an ugly creature would be so nutritious?

8. Talbuk

Game: World of Warcraft
Nutritional Value: $69 silver
Edible Part: Venison (steak)

Twenty of these venison steaks can be carried at a time. Become the Costco of Azeroth.

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7. Mutant Ant

Game: Fallout 3
Nutritional Value: Health and radiation poisoning
Edible Part: Abdomen

Awards five points of health and six points if you have a food sanitizer. However, the sanitizer won't remove the three points of radiation you'll get from it.

6. Bantha

Game: Star Wars The Old Republic
Nutritional Value: $50
Edible Part: Peppered Bantha Steak

You'll need to be at least level 40 to be able to acquire and sell this item.

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5. Malboro

Game: Final Fantasy 9
Nutritional Value: Learning of the "Bad Breath" spell
Edible Part: Whole body

Using Quina, you can learn the deadly "Bad Breath" spell to poison your enemies.

4. Shield Wyrm

Game: Final Fantasy 12
Nutritional Value: Unknown
Edible Part: Ring Wyrm Liver

It's a delicacy of the Iron Stomach guild. You'll need to kill a Shield Wyrm to get some as a requirement to join the guild.

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3. Mole Rat

Game: Fallout 3
Nutritional Value: Health and radiation poisoning.
Edible Part: Steak

Not too hard to find but if you're not too heavily radiated, it's a great pick-me-up.

2. Chocobo

Game: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2
Nutritional Value: Unknown
Edible Part: Skin

You won't eat it but you'll be taking on a mission to bring a Chocobo skin sandwich to a woman's husband.

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1. Crunchy Chicks

Game: Fable
Nutritional Value: Protein, immorality, money, strength
Edible Part: Whole body

The quickest way to lose cool points with the rest of the characters in the game is to eat these cuties alive.

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