9 Gaming Moments In 2015 That Made You Uncomfortable

7. Being Torn Apart By A Mech In Black Ops III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcWfPdvaOSw Shocking scenes in Call of Duty games have become so expected and standardised these days that their impact has diminished over time. But even if the profoundness of these moments has faded, the raw, visceral impact of seeing your character's arms ripped from her body in a first-person perspective is still tough to stomach. The scene is well executed enough that you're surprised when the moment comes. You get knocked to the ground by a bipedal tank-robot, and imagine that in true Hollywood style you'll get saved at the last second. Instead, you (foolishly) throw a punch at the goliath, to which it responds by grabbing your arm and tearing it off like piece of jerky. The boney stump where your arm used to be doesn't deter you from throwing another punch (again, foolishly), then getting that torn off before the robot begins pummelling your body to mush. Thankfully, you get saved and turned into a cyborg, so things work out kind of okay in the end. But watching a human body dismantled so easily by a piece of machinery is every technophobe's nightmare, reminding us of how our own technological advancements are capable of, ahem, tearing humanity apart.
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