Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell/Tear Jerker


 * From the first game: "You're dying, Wilkes".
 * Also, the intro to Double Agent, where Sam learns his daughter was killed, and drops his iconic goggles out of the side of the Osprey into the ocean.
 * Conviction has the second to last level, where
 * And then there is the level where Sam  And then, you get to   This, combined with   show just how profound a loss Sam has suffered, and just how much his life has irreversibly changed.
 * Chaos Theory can do this in a rather unusual way. You overhear a lot of the bad guys talking to each other, joking, talking about the game's current events, even about sports. A few of them even talk about how frightened they are, and how they do not want to die. Only rarely do they say or do anything particularly inhumane or cruel. They really are, for the most part guys doing a job like you or me. And sometimes--especially if you screw up--they have to die. Guess who has to do it?