12 Most Shocking Video Game Deaths Of 2016

9. Nick Reyes - Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare

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A player character getting killed off shouldn't be too surprising in a Call of Duty game considering how often it's happened, but the utter lack of ceremony with which protagonist Nick Reyes dies at the end of Infinite Warfare's campaign was undeniably shocking.

Reyes sacrifices himself to blow up the SDF shipyard, getting ejected out into space before his spacesuit's helmet is smashed to pieces by exploding shrapnel.

In first person, we witness Reyes' final moments as he's exposed to the vacuum of space, and soon enough the scene fades to black. At least the next scene shows he got his name on the UNSA war memorial.

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