10 Video Games With Questions You Won't Want To Answer

2. Would You Die For Your Country? - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Said to be Hideo Kojima's best-written instalment in all of Metal Gear's history, Snake Eater's tale of a turncoat soldier revealed to actually be undercover the whole time is a solid foundation for an extrapolation of patriotism and duty.

Where A Way Out asks you to make the choice, Snake Eater unfurls an entire setup where character The Boss is forced to take the blame for a rogue nuclear detonation - after initially being sent to deliver the warheads in the first place - only to then die by the hand of player-character Snake, so America's government could save face.

The ultimate fulfilment of enlisting and dying for your country, Kojima plays it out through the mentored relationship between Boss and Naked Snake. We the player are just as green and new to survival in the jungles of Russia as Snake, and finding out we have to "step up" to take out the person we revere as a powerful teacher is possibly Metal Gear's finest moment.

Most gut-wrenching of all is seeing Snake's final salute at Boss's grave. Only a handful of people know the truth of her sacrifice, rather like the many individual, real-world war stories that have contributed to you being able to read this article today.