8 Games That Scare You With Lies

8. Psycho Mantis Can "Read Your Mind" - Metal Gear Solid

The original Metal Gear Solid did a fantastic job of making players - especially young and impressionable ones - believe that Hideo Kojima, the madman himself, was capable of the literally impossible.

In an era where pulling back the curtain and peering from beyond the fourth wall was considerably less common in games, Kojima's stealth-action masterpiece got meta in ground-breakingly unsettling fashion.

One of the game's bosses, Psycho Mantis, is hyped up as an ultra-powerful psychic capable of reading Solid Snake's mind, and this is embodied in-game by Mantis' ability to not only read your controller inputs, but also access your PS1's memory card and comment on any other Konami games you've played.

It was genuinely terrifying stuff back in 1998, especially as the solution to overpowering Mantis' abilities - switching your controller to another port - wasn't immediately apparent.

At the time, the prospect of a game anticipating your every move was sublimely scary, even if the tech behind the illusion might seem relatively basic by modern standards. Bravo, Kojima, bravo.