10 Powerful Video Game Moments That Gave You The Chills

11. Grey Fox's Hallway Reveal - Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear isn't known for its horror moments, although it must be said that it's probably because of this that the reveal of Grey Fox works so well.

In the lead-up to tracking him down creative director Hideo Kojima does a masterful few things, in letting you first overhear some dialogue between two soldiers discussing "another intruder", as well as in the room before the above hallway, you very quickly hear the sound of a group of people being slaughtered.

Upon entering the corridor the very fast cuts between close-ups of viscera and Snake's own surprised animations are backed by a suitably terrifying sound effect of demonic whispering repeating underneath.

Needless to say when you finally see one dying man utter the words "It's... it's a ghost!" before falling to the floor, only to look up and see another held aloft in mid-air by the unforeseen horror - it's a genuinely frightening and very cinematically-fuelled moment that a late 90's gaming crowd were utterly unprepared for.