18 Best Video Game Moments Of 2016

17. Assassination By Cannonball - Hitman

(8:55 on the above video)

Oh, you thought you got away on your little biplane, did you?

SPLAT.

Needless to say there are a ton of creative kills in the new Hitman, ranging from hacking surgical procedure machines to dismember patients, to strapping a target into a pilot's ejector seat before sending them flying through the roof.

For the standout "Holy sh*t!" reaction, it had to be Sapienza's genius inclusion of a fire-able cannon, which you can blow your target away with from across the map - or when he's making a getaway in his private airplane.