18 Most Iconic Sounds In Video Game History

13. Someone’s Seen You! - Metal Gear Solid (PlayStation, 1998)

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Some people aren’t made for stealth games. The constant sneaking, the hiding behind objects, the inability to run around shooting enemies without immediately causing an army to turn up. Metal Gear Solid will go down in history as the game that either sold you on stealth or turned you off completely. Either way, you’ll remember this sound.

It’s an alarming sound, not just in terms of the in-game consequence but how it makes you feel. When a guard spots you in Metal Gear Solid you know you’re in trouble, not only by the jarring sound effect but also the exclamation mark that appears above the enemy’s head.

Metal Gear solid mastermind Hideo Kojima is the king of visual and audio cues, and this is one of the greatest of all time.

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