10 Video Games That Completely Switched Genre Halfway Through

Though David Cage's interactive drama game Fahrenheit detaches itself from our grounded reality in its opening moments, nobody anticipated the wild direction it would end up going in.

The plot revolves around Lucas Kane, who is inexplicably possessed and murders a man at the start of the game, causing him to flee the scene once he realises what's happened, all while the authorities chase him down.

That certainly sets the mood for a dizzying supernatural thriller centered around cults, yet by the game's half-way point Fahrenheit transitions into an unintentionally hilarious, wildly over-the-top action flick.

The turning point is perhaps a surreal sequence in which Lucas has to avoid furniture flying at him in his apartment, which is just the first of several wacky, Matrix-inspired QTE sequences in the second half of the game.

These include a fight with the police where Lucas dodges bullets with ease, and a final battle where he goes full Neo against the game's ultimate antagonist, The Oracle (not helping the Matrix comparisons there).

Compared to the more serious-minded, eerie vibe of the game's first half, it descended into a purely farcical, schlocky Matrix knock-off in its back-end.