6. Paz Dies - Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Kojima ProductionsHideo Kojima's bite-sized taster for next year's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain may have felt like a glorified demo given its 80-minute play-time, but it certainly filled us with confidence that the final product will stop nothing short of being a masterpiece and one of the first games to truly push next-gen tech to the next level. One of Big Boss' mission objectives throughout the game is to rescue Peace Walker's Paz from Camp Omega, though after doing so, Big Boss comes to a horrifying realisation in the game's concluding cut-scene. Firstly, it is discovered that Paz has had a bomb surgically implanted into her stomach by Skull Face, who anticipated that Big Boss would come to rescue her. After some unpleasant emergency surgery, the bomb is removed, though Paz declares that another bomb had been implanted inside her, the implication being that it was placed in either her lady bits or inside her womb. Either way, Paz decides to sacrifice herself before the bomb detonates, diving out of the chopper, though the explosion still rocks the craft, sending it into another chopper and kick-starting the events of The Phantom Pain. There has been considerable debate online about whether Kojima went too far with a bomb planted inside a woman's private parts, though the sheer shock of the moment was enough to ingrain it in our minds forever more. Trust Kojima to do what he always done so brilliantly: push the medium as far as he possibly can.