10 Video Games That Are Totally Different By The End

Metal Gear Solid 2 is undeniably one of the most infamous examples of a video game blatantly defying player expectations, with Hideo Kojima making a concerted effort to conceal the true nature of his long-awaited stealth-action sequel pre-release.

Though players start the game controlling franchise hero Solid Snake in a tanker-set prologue, after this the perspective unexpectedly shifts to a new protagonist, Raiden, for the game's entire remainder.

But that's not all - later in the game it's revealed that the story's grasp on reality hasn't been as water-tight as expected, and much of what Raiden has gone through has in fact been part of a carefully controlled simulation.

That Metal Gear Solid 2 then ends with an epic sword fight set on top of Federal Hall and a philosophical dialogue accompanied by live-action footage scored to jazz music is truly something nobody could've ever anticipated from that opening tanker sequence with Solid Snake.

If nothing else, it's a game that continually mutates and resets the player's expectations for what's to come.