Your most breathtaking moment ever experienced in a video game?

What are your guyses most breathtaking, or rather, greatest "Aww Snap!" moments in video games?

For me, my favorite moment was when you exited that sewer pipe thing in Half Life to the booming sound of the jet planes flying over the canyon.

Also, the moment u exit the tutorial dungeons in Far Cry and Oblivion you were introduced to some ridiculously vast and beautiful landscapes.

Some more great moments of awe are the day/night cycle in Far Cry 2, the critical headshot in RE4, some levels in PoP sands of time were crazy, and the donut-shaped ice planet in SMG where u can skate around to catch the penguin and do the quintuple axle twist extending into the planet's orbit. sick.

The most breathtaking moment, for me, was my first sighting of the GTVA Colossus in Freespace 2.

The thing is just so massive, and fills you with a feeling of safety, as though it is an aegis for humanity, protecting it against all that stands to destroy us...

I don't know about most breathtaking, but one of my most recent was in Max Payne 2 where

[spoiler] Max shoots Winterson [/spoiler]

MGS4, when you controlled snake to crawl slowly through the radioactive tunnel. Whilst having a cutscene beside it showing eveything going completely wrong.Logan832

Most recently:

Fallout 3: Leaving the vault. Also the second last quest was hilariously awesome.

Resistance 2: First sight of the leviathan and the sighting of the fleet over San Fransico. Pretty impressive.

MGS 4: No comment. (Play it for your self!)

Heavenly Sword: The last battle. So many enemies, so little time :(.

GeoW 2: The worm.

But as for all time, I'm not really sure. Right now I will go with:

Bioshock: The twist. Shame it went down hill from there. Just killed the game for me after that.

Most breathtaking moments for me would be

Final boss in deadspace

Mother brain fight in super metroid

Seeing the lucifer in freespace 1 for the first time

A few moments in MSG4

Most breathtaking moments for me would be

Final boss in deadspace

Mother brain fight in super metroid

Seeing the lucifer in freespace 1 for the first time

A few moments in MSG4

Rougehunter

MGS4, when you controlled snake to crawl slowly through the radioactive tunnel. Whilst having a cutscene beside it showing eveything going completely wrong.Logan832

Funny thing about MGS4 is that it has a LOT of those kinds of moments. :P

The motorcycle chase in Act 3 of MGS4 for certain. The Crying Wolf boss battle too. Then there was finding out the true nature of Screaming Mantis after fighting her.

Oh yeah I forgot. Mass Effect.

[spoiler] Meeting Sovereign on the planet Virmire was epic, as well as running into Saren shortly after that. Also, the rest of the game after you've met the Prothean contruct Vigil was totally breathtaking. [/spoiler]

The most breathtaking moment, for me, was my first sighting of the GTVA Colossus in Freespace 2.

The thing is just so massive, and fills you with a feeling of safety, as though it is an aegis for humanity, protecting it against all that stands to destroy us...

thepwninator

The stunning views you see in Uncharted are pretty breathtaking, especially the part where you climb up the cliff to get on top of the German U-boat. Awesome!

Also Far Cry 2, some nice visual moments in that too.

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The most breathtaking moment, for me, was my first sighting of the GTVA Colossus in Freespace 2.

The thing is just so massive, and fills you with a feeling of safety, as though it is an aegis for humanity, protecting it against all that stands to destroy us...

Dreams-Visions

It was such a sad moment seeing being destroyed by the sathanas

when i first played half life 2 :o so many great moments

but the most recent one was when i was playing mgs4 and you had to crawl through the microwave thing and the fight at the end....that game was amazing

when i first played half life 2 :o so many great moments

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The most breathtaking moment, for me, was my first sighting of the GTVA Colossus in Freespace 2.

The thing is just so massive, and fills you with a feeling of safety, as though it is an aegis for humanity, protecting it against all that stands to destroy us...

Rougehunter

It was such a sad moment seeing being destroyed by the sathanas

When I saw that, I felt so...doomed. The greatest that humanity had to offer was destroyed with ease by one ship out of many. The sense of doom was so strong that it was oppressive.

Killing this Bastard:

The first quarter and last quarter of Mass Effect, the middle was meh. Oh, and the battle to get to the Citadel in Half Life 2, freaking amazing.

And, of course, coming out of the sewers in Oblivion.

The Embassy battle in GRAW

Most of Mass Effect

Attacking the SSD Executor in X-wing: Alliance

The armored train level of Medal of Honor: Frontline

The Volga-crossing sequence on your way to Stalingrad in Call of Duty

The Sink the Musashi level in Heroes of the Pacific

...That's all I have for now