10 Video Game Betrayals Nobody Saw Coming

1. Vincent - A Way Out

A Way Out unashamedly revels in prison and crime movie cliches, to the point where the majority of its narrative is familiar on paper, but is saved by the care and attention put into the execution. Of course, no game influenced so heavily by this genre would be complete without a last minute betrayal, but the beauty of EA's title is that the eventual twist still takes you by surprise.

Maybe it's because main characters Vincent and Leo seem so genuine all the way through, with their stories and motivations for helping each other creating a properly, brotherly bond between them. That affection does turn out to be real, but it can't save the breakdown of the relationship when it's revealed that Vince was actually a cop the whole time, using Leo to get revenge on his brother's killer.

From that moment, one is destined to die, and while everyone knows it has to happen, it doesn't make it any easier on either the player, or the character, to be the one who pulls the trigger.