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The Shadow of the Templars & Director's Cut

  • The clown in the first game's intro.
  • When George sees Plantard's body after the explosion.
    George: "The sight of the dead guy's staring eyes turn my knees to jelly."
  • If the player is careless, getting caught with the manuscript when attempting to leave Ubu Hotel will result in George getting abducted, and then murdered, by hired goons.
  • At the same game, all of the death scenes do count. Particularly the one where George's body fell on the cliff and then the vultures are standing on top of him.
  • Sean Fitzgerald being run over by a car shortly after running out of the pub in a panic, and ends up being kidnapped by Khan. All of this happens in front of a fourteen year-old, who tries to stop the kidnapper from taking Sean away to his possible death.
  • Khan's presence is pretty terrifying especially when he follows George in Bull's Head Hill.
  • Jacque Marques doped up to the eyeballs on pain meds and wheezing through his final conversations before Eklund murders him. Then there's the eerie flatlining of the heart rate monitor as George and the hospital staff try to get into the room.
  • The fate of the missing children of Don Carlos de Vasconcellos. They starved to death in the vault, and the player finds their huddled skeletons.

The Smoking Mirror & Remastered

  • A haunting chant music appears whenever someone mentions Tezcatlipoca or if there's a Mayan ritual.
  • The way Karzac died at the hands of Tezcatlipoca near the end of the game is gruesome.

The Sleeping Dragon

  • Some people think that walking around the abandoned theater is creepy.
  • In the underground theater, George and Nico discover a dead soldier whose body is mangled and burned away near the elevator. Even though they've seen dead bodies many times in their adventures, they feel unsettled and regard it as the worst corpse they ever found.
  • One of Susarro's henchmen is so petrified out of his wits that he decided to hide in theater's office. He's walking around inside the room, mumbling random thoughts, shooting anyone who tries to confront him and the sight of a burned soldier near at the elevator make him scream in terror. His behavior implied that he saw the suspect who killed his comrade.
  • Nico's expression when she sees George getting impaled with spikes in the Dragon Temple is terrible.
  • If George steps the wrong tile, he will be crushed by a huge rock above. Cue hearing a cracking sound and the scene is scarier.
  • It may be hard to notice, but when Petra shoots George and Nico in the Dragon Temple, you can see her smile when she kills Nico.
  • The last challenge in the third game: if George fails to dodge the dragon's fire-breath, his body will get burned and the way he screams is horrifying.
  • All of the death scenes in this game are accompanied with unnerving and jarring background music.

The Angel of Death

  • At the prologue of the game, you can see Moses looks at a woman who will become a sacrifice. When Moses raised his cane, the woman's spirit is released and it becomes a skeleton with wings.
  • In the fourth game, Toni's body is hanged on the hook in the conveyor line. That and the fact he is found dead in a salami factory.
  • Near the end of the game, if George didn't save Nico from becoming the Ark's sacrifice you can see Nico's spirit starting to drain and begs George for help.

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