10 Video Game Moments NOBODY Saw Coming
2. Haytham Is A Templar - Assassins Creed 3
By the time Assassins Creed 3 rolled around, we'd already had revelations about higher beings, puppet masters and the Knights Templar being proper shady and all that. What could Ubisoft pull out of the bag to surprise us in this otherwise boring installment in the series?
How about that the sullying feeling that you're playing as a dirty rotten Templar for the first few hours of the game? Would that do it? It did for me, at least.
Perhaps it was naive to not see this coming, but in the four home console releases prior (as well as spinoffs), we'd always played as assassins. It's in the title, for one.
So when Haytham swears in Charles Lee to "the order", you think nothing of it. Then you hear the words, "You are a Templar", bringing that crushing realisation that you have been playing as the wrong side for all of part of the game.
It was a great reveal, and not one many were expecting. Desmond's exclamation echoed the sentiment that many of us were thinking: "Wait, what?!" indeed.