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Video games are well known to surprise and thrill you at the most unexpected junctures. A proper and nice video game should have enough ingredients that should make you jump out of seat and squeal in excitement at the appearance of a sudden unexpected development or least expected character. Be it an Easter Egg or just a huge plot twist, every game should have at least a couple of surprises embedded in them. Otherwise, it’s just like watching the Assembly proceedings.This list covers ten such surprises or shocks that made you say ‘What The .…!’ when you come across them. For those who haven’t, these are dangerous spoiler-full territories – be careful where you tread!
#10 Almas first appearance - F.E.A.R.
It was a known fact that Alma, that creepy little girl that still gives us nightmares, is going to be the main villain of this highly under-rated game. But nothing set us up for the shock that awaited us when we first happen to have a glimpse of her amidst the proceedings.
Fresh off the scare that the movie ‘The Ring’ gave us, Alma’s appearance is shocking because it comes at a moment when you least expect her to arrive (though you know that she will). Till her appearance, it was all Call of Duty, and then suddenly it’s all Silent House.
#9 The Ending - Limbo
I have mentioned Limbo in a few of my lists. It is one of the darkest games I have ever played, and if you haven’t tried it yet, please do so. In the game which has all the characters, enemies and surroundings all in silhouettes, you play a boy who is search for his lost sister, while encountering big spiders and other assorted monsters, who can kill you without mercy.
After you solve the last puzzle, you are sent through a sheet of glass, and then find yourself at the start of the game. Here, you find what appears to be your sister, who is digging up a grave. And then the game ends, and you finally realise the significance of the title. Harrowing yet sad.
#8 Reznovs not real - Call of Duty: Black Ops
Black Ops is quite different from the rest of the Call of Duty titles prior to that, for the fact that it has a narrative. And not just a narrative for narrative’s sake, but one that has a lot of twists and turns. There is a little stage in the game, where you play a bodyguard of a president, only to be killed off mercilessly at the end of the stage.
However, the game’s biggest surprise is that Alex Mason, the main protagonist, is actually a brainwashes sleeper agent, and his comrade, Reznov, was just a personality of his heckled mind. If that does not shock you, then maybe this little nugget will – Mason was actually brainwashed to kill JFK!
#7 Your girlfriends dead Dead Space
Necromorphs are a bad thing, and anyone who has played Dead Space will know why. You play Isaac, an astronaut trapped in a derelict spaceship filled with scary space monsters that can attack you from anywhere. You need to find your girlfriend before the Necromorphs consume both of you.
By the time you track her location and reach there, you realise she has committed suicide before the monsters kill her, while leaving behind a farewell video. All those efforts for nothing.
#6 Fight Each Other Double Dragon
This game is not Contra, I assure you, even though you can play two heroes at once. Because Contra heroes are bros for life, unlike these two a-holes who after defeating so many villains and villainesses throughout the game to save a girl, finally seem to realise that there are two of them and just one prize.
Since none of them had seen ‘Sangam’, ‘Sagar’ and ‘Saajan’, they had to fight with each other to win the hand of the fair maiden. Love/Lust is the ultimate passion after all; Friendship can just take a hike!
#5 The Nod to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Resident Evil 4
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an iconic slasher horror films that inspired countless remakes and sequels, one that even featured Oscar winner, Matthew McConaughey in one of his earliest and weirdest roles.
Resident Evil 4 gives us a surprise by paying tribute to this game – it dresses up one of its villains with a sack on his face, and wielding a chainsaw. By the time you wonder where you have seen this scene before, I can’t guarantee how your head may look.
#4 The Rape Monster Pyramid Head
This list can never be complete without even a single mention of one of gaming world’s creepiest, dangerous and most perverted monsters – the Pyramid Head. The thing that made the Silent Hill into a must play series, its name may remind you of any nursery rhyme character, but it is anything like that.
After all, what can you say about a monster that likes to rape other monsters? Oh yes, that’s the most notorious aspect in Pyramid Head’s CV, and that how we first meet him as well – raping two mannequin monsters at the same time! Video game innocence has never been so brutalized.
#3 Nuked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Nuclear bombs are no laughing matter, and this game doesn’t let you change your opinion at all. In fact, it actually reinforces the idea that N-bombs are bad. Very Bad. Call of Duty series seems to have a knack of sticking to not-so-hopeful endings since the release of Black Ops, and here too, it has the bleakest ending ever, that hits you when you least expect it.
After all, what do you expect when you have finally thought you have made your escape to victory? Certainly not the idea of suffering a nuclear holocaust! Well, that’s what happens here, and it’s not a pretty damn sight! Say No to war, please!
#2 Captain Keyes Halo: Reach
Halo: Reach is by far one of the best Halo games to be released, and the culmination is the crown. Acting as a prequel to Halo: Combat, you play Six, protecting what’s left of your planet from Covenant enemies. The surprise in the climax involves the return of the iconic hero, Captain Keyes, to the game, after nine long years.
After that, the game doesn’t really have a too happy ending as you die in a last stand-off against the enemies. But the consequences of your sacrifice could bring tears to your eyes.
#1 Would You Kindly? BioShock
One of the darkest and haunted games that plays with your mind so freakishly that you are left in a shock at what had just happened, BioShock’s twists and turns are remarkable. As the player, you are to explore an underwater city, created by the mad genius Andrew Ryan, to save the family of a friend, Atlas, and kill the mastermind.
As you go on about your duties, while fending off weird monstrosities, you get to come across the phrase ‘Would You Kindly?’ a few times. When you finally reach the mad genius, he again refers to the phrase, which make you realise that this man happens to be your father and you have been brainwashed to kill him by Atlas.
And, by the way, you were also the reason for the crash that happened to bring him to this forsaken place.
