10 Most Sacrilegious Video Game Moments

10. Fighting Wesker In An Active Volcano - Resident Evil 5

The Resident Evil franchise has never exactly been a bastion of serious storytelling, but things certainly took a turn for the unbearably goofy in Resident Evil 5.

It's the tipping point at which the series began to lean too heavily on action at the expense of atmosphere and tension, exemplified no better than by the hysterically over-the-top final battle against the series' ultimate baddie, Albert Wesker.

Not only does the fight see Chris Redfield and his sidekick Sheva taking on another grotesquely mutated form of Wesker, but it takes place inside a freaking active volcano, complete with a sequence in which Chris has to repeatedly punch a boulder blocking his path.

This is the moment which transformed Resident Evil from silly sci-fi into fantasy cartoon nonsense, ahead of the series' excessive low-point in the wildly bloated Resident Evil 6.

Staging such an absurd final fight inside such a ridiculous location was the point at which Resident Evil just felt too far divorced from its survival horror roots.