10 Gaming Jump Scares That Freaked You Out For NO REASON

10. The Bear - Hitman: Absolution

Though the Hitman games are fine-tuned exercises in white-knuckle suspense, that's largely confined to the player's attempts to carry out their assassinations as slickly and quietly as possible.

But in Hitman: Absolution's third mission, Terminus, players who enter a room on the hotel's eighth floor will be greeted by the terrifying and unexpected sight of a gigantic, stuffed bear.

Because the visual isn't jarringly horrifying enough, the bear even lets out a brief roar accompanied by a tension chord. If you happened to be wearing headphones while encountering the bear, it was most certainly time to go change your underwear.

It was also an easy way to ruin a Silent Assassin run, as the brain-scrambling sight of the bear surely caused many to instinctively discharge their firearm and invite a ton of unwanted attention in the process.