Video games have come along way since Pong. With technology to make them look like blockbusters, and the capability (with enough cash) to acquire the vocals of some of Hollywood's finest, some titles are now on a level to be compared with the medium of film. With brilliant visuals and the standard facial/motion capture, games can now project likable and relate-able characters that when the chips are down for them, or they get shot or blown up, players can find themselves feeling something for that character. With that it mind, here are some of the best endings that evoke empathy, shock, or just reduce you to a blubbering mess until the credits finish rolling.
10. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
As his name suggests, Max has been through a serious load of hurt. The subtitle doesn't really suggest a happy ever after for the drug addled, alcoholic cynic and while it isn't overly eventful, its subtlety is where it really tugs the heart strings. Betrayed by one of his only friends, and having just killed him, Max's thought-dead-but-actually-alive-lover Mona lay dying in a pool of blood. As he tells her she's going to be okay, there is a subtle echo of his wife and daughter as Max is just as powerless to save her.
"Now like all my loves, she is mine forever." As she dies in his arms Max begins a to narrate the final scene. He tells of how she has brought a moment of clarity to him, and we are lead to believe that in helping him solve the case, she has brought him a degree of closure. he had a dream of his wife. She was dead. But it was alright.