10 Video Game Deaths You Were Powerless To Stop

2. Fergus OR Wyatt - Wolfenstein: The New Order

Wolfenstein: The New Order's pre-titles prologue concludes in unforgettably grim fashion, when protagonist "B.J." Blazkowicz is captured alongside his pals Fergus and Wyatt while breaking into Deathshead's weapons laboratory.

The sadistic Deathshead then forces B.J. to choose whether he kills Fergus or Wyatt, resulting in a stomach-churningly gruesome cutscene where the victim of the players' choosing has their eyeballs ripped out, before a barbaric surgical instrument is used to cut a hole through the back of the head and suck their brain out while they're still alive. Gross.

In either case there's nothing the player can do to affect this: it's a literal Sophie's Choice and the end result is equally horrifying no matter whose fate you seal.

Worse still, you then have to destroy said brain at the end of the game after Deathshead places it inside a robot which attacks you.

As much as graphic violence shouldn't surprise any Wolfenstein fan, the sheer pleasure that Deathshead took in offing one of your friends made it especially nauseating.