15 Insane Call Of Duty Moments That Blew Your Mind
4. General Shepard, The Bad Guy (Modern Warfare 2)
MW2's mission Loose Ends is one of the most pivotal, important and shocking in the history of CoD, as Lt. General Shepherd arrives to apparently extract Ghost and Roach, but instead shoots them both dead and sets their corpses alight with a cigar.
Though CoD has a reputation for putting more stock in explosions over characters, it's fair to say that players nevertheless become somewhat attached to them, and seeing two heroes mercilessly taken down by a turncoat proved extremely viscerally affecting.
The series has always done vengeance well, but certainly no more than when the player (as Soap) was able to hurl a knife into Shepherd's face at the end of the game. It felt incredibly cathartic and served as an immensely satisfying payoff from Shepherd's actions earlier.
When you talk about great twists in gaming, Shepherd's devastating heel turn has to be up there.