Great article. The only game that I didn't play was Haze, and I loved all of the other ones.
Shadow of the Colossus is a beautiful game, and the play on videogame conventions is really cool.
I would add Crackdown to the list, though it did not use any subtle clues before the reveal, other than the fact that the Agency Tower is kind of monolithic and intimidating. At least you were fighting actual "bad guys" in that game, even though you do so in serving other "bad guys."
I don't know if its mentioned already, but Crackdown also had one of these moments. It may have not been significant enough to the GR list, or they may have forgotten about it. The twist at the end did surprise; I wonder how the story will work out in Crackdown 2
You know something I realized as I was reading the Shadow of the Colossus section? Dormin is nimrod spelled backwards. I jsut find it kinda funny for some really hard to explain reason.
Dude. Shadow of the Colossus was freaking depressing at most. From the time I first saw an Advert for it in a local Game store, to when I beat it, It went from "YEAH! DIE YOU UNFAIRLY HUGE GIANTS!" to "Wait....Somethings wrong", to "Well...." and finally, "...........Well that Sucks. Hard. All that for nothing? "
Great article. I loved Bioshock. I didn't see that twist coming at all. I just did whatever Atlas did because he was a friendly face in a dark place like Rapture.
SoTC was a great game best game for Ps2 in my opinion, plus I loved killing the Collosi hearing them scream in pain whenever I stabbed them when there special parts glowed hahahahahaha! but in reality killing them did feel kinda sucky lol
Umm...sorry, but what about Crackdown? It caught me off guard at the end, because I was already killing civilians...didn't think it got worse that. Fine, maybe #8.