20 Most Intense Video Game Moments Ever
10. "Who Is Desmond?!" - Assassin's Creed II
A fourth wall break that is breaking the fourth wall established inside the game.
If you didn't follow that, it's okay. Just know that character Desmond realising he was being addressed - despite being plugged into the Animus that was showing him the memories of his ancestor hundreds of years prior - was a mindf*ck not only for him, but the audience too.
At this stage in the franchise's history we'd certainly heard about the mysterious "Ones Who Came Before" and their interstellar comments on designing the human race using the Pieces of Eden - but we'd never seen or heard them speak.
Now seeing Ezio - in Renaissance-era Italy - get addressed by the holographic projection of the Goddess Minerva - who immediately started talking 'through' him because she knew Desmond would be listening in the future - was one of Ubisoft's finest moments.
Hell, it's the one story moment the entirety of Assassin's Creed can happily rest on.