10 Games That Break the Fourth Wall

Metal Gear Solid Series

Games That Break the Fourth Wall

Hideo Kojima knows how to make a mind screw of a fourth wall break. Almost every game in the Metal Gear franchise annihilates the fourth wall at least once in memorable fashion. The first Metal Gear Solid includes Psycho Mantis, a boss who reads the player’s PlayStation/GameCube memory card and can only be defeated by plugging the controller into the Player 2 slot (he returns in MGS4 in a cute little callback cameo).

MGS2 has the insane codec conversations with “Colonel Roy Campbell;” MGS3 features the infamous Time Paradox game over screen, and the list goes on. These fourth wall breaks insert some much-needed levity in games that teach gamers that war is hell. And that nanomachines might as well be magic.