10 Video Games That Open On MAJOR Plot Twists

3. The Protagonist Is NOT Solid Snake - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty

There's perhaps no opening plot twist more infamous in gaming than that of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

The game's marketing made players believe, quite reasonably, that they'd once again be controlling the previous game's protagonist, Solid Snake, but in his all-time mightiest troll, creator Hideo Kojima bait-and-switched fans with a sudden protagonist switcharoo.

Though players do get to control Snake for the game's hour-long tanker-set prologue, the remaining 90% of the game is spent played as an entirely new character, Raiden.

Fans were pissed, and it didn't help that Raiden was, seemingly intentionally, everything Snake wasn't: effeminate, whiney, and disconcertingly acrobatic.

As brilliant as the gameplay still was, for many the twist soured the experience irreparably, no matter that Snake did return later in the game as a non-playable ally under the gossamer-thin alter-ego Iroquois Pliskin.

If nothing else, the fact that this gigantic spoiler wasn't somehow leaked prior to release is nothing short of a miracle on Kojima's part.