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- Aliasing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+85Manhunt is at the top of the list purely by reputation, its a really solid stealth adventure game, but not nearly as gruesome as people seem to imagine, most of the execution kills are realistic, but subdued and comparatively clean.
God of War 2 should be right at the top of the list, even if it meant striking God of War 1 from third place; I'm about two hours into the game and to date I've
Torn about 1000 wings out of screaming harpies
Killed dozens of gryphon's by shearing both wings off in mid air.
Torn off a soldiers arm and killed him with the his sword in his dismembered hand.
Broken another solider in half and used one half to beat a man to death.
Used a small dog as a soccerball.
Watched in horror as a large bird eats the internal organs out of Prometheus in graphic detail
Then burned Prometheus alive in a pit of coals
Killed a siren by tearing off the top of its head at the mouth.
Literally liquidfied a mans head by repeatedly slamming a metal door against it, after impaling him against a wall with a giant spear.
Two hours in! - ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -5/+49@ BestJaxx
Dugg you up for having responsible parents and for being a good kid by listening to them. - humperdeath, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36This sounds like a checklist for all the games I need to get.
- Erowid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35The 128 people who have dugg this so far?
- Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29No Postal? It doesnt look very good but damn it is quite violent, throwing napalm on people, pissing on them to to put them out, throwing scissors at people, using cats as silencers for shotguns?
- aroundtheblock, on 11/06/2008, -2/+30I would give my left nut for a sof3
- 1KrazyKorean, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Violent Games are the best
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2610) Loaded
9) Mortal Kombat
8) Grand Theft Auto
7) The Punisher
6) Killer 7
5) Soldier of Fortune
4) Gears of War
3) God of War
2) Thrill Kill
1) Manhunt - tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I just dugg it to spite you, bwesterman. I hate your comment and all those like it.
- Godlesswanderer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Agreed. We need an SoF3.
Although, castration = no no. Gangbang with the developers = maybe - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18What about RE4 or Postal? :/
- Hellmark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Do as I do in postal. Whip out your dick, get the woman laughing, piss on her, then as she's puking decapitate her, light her corpse on fire, and piss on her one final time.
- Boing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Aliasing has convinced me to go buy God of War 2.
- fober, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Certainly a cause worthy of castration.
Count me in. - BestJaxx, on 10/12/2007, -22/+37I am thirteen, and the only violent game I am allowed to have is Resistance: Fall of Man. I've beat it three times.
- DarthSupero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Sure.
10) Loaded - Look up the term "bloodbath" and you will find Loaded and its sequel, Re-Loaded. These games feature classic top-down action, where players demolish floods of enemies, staining every inch of the ground with blood. Weapons include flamethrowers, missile launchers and plasma cannons, among others. It's a take-no-prisoners affair (which, coincidentally begins inside a prison), and anything that MOVES is fair game. When you're done, it looks like you've emptied a ketchup bottle onto a dollhouse in the psychiatric ward.
9) Mortal Kombat - The granddaddy of video game violence, Mortal Kombat started it all. It featured character models as photo-realistic as the technology of the time could provide, and then proceeded to tear them apart. Blood flew with every strike throughout each match, but the real exhibit was the fatality system. When a player was told to "FINISH HIM," fighters would take the liberty of tearing out opponent's skulls, with spinal column attached, or reach into their chest and tear out a still-beating heart. Other fatalities featured full dismemberment, leaving gamers shocked - but eager to see more.
8) Grand Theft Auto - As the highest-profile series on this list, Grand Theft Auto games have become the poster children for violent video games. One must consider the entire franchise, since there have been more than a half-dozen GTA games in the past 10 years. What makes these games so offensive is the freedom players are granted to do whatever they want in a setting that mirrors real life. The move to 3D is when things became most violent, allowing the beatdown of anyone walking the streets, random gun-downs of civilians, gang members and police officers, vehicular manslaughter, and the titular offense of Grand Theft Auto (usually involving a punch to the face and a toss onto the asphalt before driving away). There's a reason GTA is in the news, and that very reason lands it on this list.
7) The Punisher - When a game is partially censored due to violence, you know it has to be pretty intense. The Punisher features 3rd person action much like a Max Payne game, but what sets it apart are the "interrogation" segments, which always result in some brutal ending for the one answering the questions. For each of these kills, a black and white filter is applied to the visuals in an effort to curb the violence, and for good reason. Bad guys are sawed, drilled, crushed, and fed to piranhas, just to name a few of their undesirable fates. The best part, though, is when Frank Castle shoves a knife directly into the top of a man's skull.
6) Killer 7 - Killer 7 centers around the story of a syndicate of assassins, and branches out into whatever questionable content it can manage to reach. Not only do bucketloads of blood spray out of enemies' bodies when they are killed, but the protagonist actually absorbs it to get stronger. At one point, a character gives a man his wife's severed head, before shooting him in the back of the head, execution style. Another scene features the methodical murder of eight people in a hotel, and yet another sees blood literally rain from the sky, covering everything below. This game is a psychological mess, and the sort of violence within is the product of insanity - or maybe genius. In any case, resurrection using a bloody paper bag full of body parts is definitely on the graphic side.
5) Soldier of Fortune - This game's calling card IS its highly graphic violence. It featured a whopping 26 unique areas on its character models that could display damage independently of the others. They were called "gore zones." Players could create all manner of semi-limbless creatures, shooting off arms and legs at various points. The results were sometimes reminiscent of a butcher shop. A head shot could leave a bloody stump of a neck or split the enemy's skull, and shots to the stomach could blow a hole straight through or leave intestines dangling. With the amount of disfigurement encountered throughout Soldier of Fortune, anyone would agree that the name "gore zones" hit the nail right on the head.
4) Gears of War - When a game looks this good, all of its content is effectively magnified. The gore in Gears of War is as graphic as it comes. Enemies limbs are often perforated and torn off by a barrage of machine gun fire and close encounters usually result in a chainsaw to the neck, leaving SOMEBODY headless. Otherwise, enemies simply explode into bits of blood and bone, with much of the end product splattering all over the camera - and everywhere else. The sheer volume of blood in this game leaves players swimming in a sanguine sea.
3) God of War - In both the original and the sequel, gameplay in the God of War series is a sea of unrelenting violence. Kratos is one of the most vicious characters the video game world has ever seen, never hesitating to impale bodies, sever heads, and even rip enemies in half with his bare hands. As for innocents...he'll quickly slice them to shreds or offer them up as a sacrifice to achieve his goals. The cutscenes in God of War are particularly gory, with blood gushing as far as the eye can see, and the finishing maneuvers enacted upon enemies are some of the most brutal imaginable. You can almost FEEL the pain.
2) Thrill Kill - EA canned Thrill Kill at the last minute because they "didn't want to publish such a senselessly violent game." Featuring four player deathmatches between deranged inhabitants of a modern-day Hell, this game took the most violent route possible. Rather than health meters gradually declining as the battle wore on, each player fought to build up their "kill meter," which allowed them to execute brutal "Thrill Kills." Mutilation, dismemberment, blood-splattering lacerations and the like were all standard fare in this game, which earned it the rare AO (adults only) rating before its eventual cancellation. Senselessly violent? Probably.
1) Manhunt - Here's a game with a plot that revolves around the making of a snuff film. The game's protagonist, James Earl Cash, is already a convicted murderer, and is now at the mercy of a deranged directer who basically tells him to kill or be killed - and to make it gruesome. With weapons ranging from shards of glass to baseball bats to machetes to shotguns, Cash kills gang member after gang member in only the bloodiest of ways. The way everything is presented ups the intensity and makes the action gritty as hell. The view even changes to a special TV camera perspective to provide the most optimal view of each execution - where heads roll, blood flies, and things are generally nasty. - BestJaxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Postal should be on on their just because it lets you beat the crap out of Gary Coleman.
- RedViper1999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Without Postal 2 this list is worthless. I mean you can beat down a person, then pour gasoline on them, then pee on them to put them out while they are screaming on the ground and vomiting or relieving themselves all over the place. And then to top it all off you can whack off their head with a shovel and kick it around the streets like a soccer ball, until a dog grabs it for itself. Or you can kill people with anthrax, machine guns, force people to give you head. There is so much stuff you have to play it to understand how twisted it is. There's even a part where you become a gimp and are getting raped by rednecks. This game is without a doubt the most twisted and violent game ever created it has to be there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Agreed. I expected Postal to be on this list for sure.
- keyboardduder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It seems like they never played kingpin
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/kingpinlifeofcrime/
Or the suffering - fpssledge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11How is F.E.A.R. not on the list? You can shoot a guy with a shotgun and they will turn into a blood cloud. Of course that doesn't always happen, sometimes there body is blown in half. Sometimes their head blows off their body.
.....*searches frantically for my fear installation discs* - Frezzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9can anyone post the list for thoes of us that have websense?
- Wonkanobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11What about when you fall in the lava in MarioKart?
- gaiden2k5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9what about Postal? though graphically it's retarded, but the violence and the game intent it's right up there with these games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_(computer_game) - Erowid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9duggmirror got me around it oddly enough.
*edit* NippleNutz beat me to it.... Now that's something I didn't expect to say today :/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Darrelc, it's on PS2.
God I love that game. - drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Violent is a subjective term.
Do they mean bloodiest? Most destructive? Most cold-blooded?
I would add MechWarrior or Alien vs Predator to the list. Planetary destruction and genocide would be listed as violent in my book.
Also Mortal Kombat wasn't the grand daddy of violent games. Fighting games existed long before Mortal Kombat; The original Street Fighter, Kung-fu, just about any side-scroller. Mortal Kombat just raised the bar by adding a little blood. - drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Not to mention the shear baddassitude is unparalleled. Can't wait for them to get to number 3.
- fluidfoundation, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Aquaman:Battle for Atlantis needs to be on the list. Playing that game make people want to commit acts of violence on the developers.
- EvilFerret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Super Mario Bros? ***** I've destroyed so many goombas by smashing their guts into the ground....Then there's those turtle/duck things, probably would count as some form of animal cruelty. That ***** was just sadistic
- tdogg241, on 10/18/2007, -0/+6Including a game that was never released (Thrill Kill) seems like a bit of a cop-out. I would have expected to see the Resident Evil series make an appearance.
- Aliasing, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Again that's reputation not reality; actually almost all the characters were caricatures; mostly they were costumed ridiculously, as clowns and whatnot; similar to the gangs in the Warriors. It really wasn't all that realistic.
- tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7god of war ii should definitely be at the top
hands down-- most violent video game ever - Gunsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5what a ***** list! I half expected CARMAGEDDON to be in near the top! buried
- DJCult, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There's more death in Robotron and Smash TV than any other game I've played.
- fohf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@aliasing
"Manhunt is at the top of the list purely by reputation, its a really solid stealth adventure game, but not nearly as gruesome as people seem to imagine, most of the execution kills are realistic, but subdued and comparatively clean."
Did you play the same game I did? That game's violence lives up to it's reputation. I don't know exactly the number of ways to kill people in that game, but I imagine there are 50+ unique executions.
Maybe you are more desensitized than I am (not likely), but I still found it pretty gruesome slowly sawing through a man's neck with piano wire and listening to him gasp as he chokes on blood. Or slamming a crowbar through the top of someones head. Or shoving shards of glass in their eyes.
If by "subdued" you meant "not having buckets of digital blood spraying all over" then yes it is subdued, but I don't think it takes buckets of digital blood to make a game violent or gruesome. - Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What's going on with all these "most violent games" lists? They all seem like a playground in front of Postal series, a game that got banned in most of the world. I find it irritating that "gamers" who make such lists don't know one of the best cult games ever. Postal 2 Share the Pain, is even a good game. What's the matter with them?
- Prysorra, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"using cats as silencers for shotguns?"
I don't know what's worse - that a game has that or found it hysterical. - joaob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Another day another double viking top list
- grumbel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also add Wing Commander 3, blowing up the whole planet of the Kilrathi isn't exactly a peaceful move either.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Does nobody remember Splatterhouse for the TG-16???
- MSstar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4F.E.A.R and DeadRising are not in the list ?!
- arcele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Postal is a snub, but right when I saw this headline, I thought of Time Killers, an awesome fighting arcade game from the early 90s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Killers
This game DEFINITELY should have made the list - sm4k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree with your point about reputation, and I think it applies to Thrill Kill as well. If you poke around youtube, you can find game play footage of the near-completed version that was leaked on to the net. It's no Seseame Street 1 2 3, but it doesn't deserve to be so much lower (higher?) on the list than Mortal Kombat. After all, it's graphically equivalent to the first Virtua Fighter mixed in with Mortal Kombat.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-HfFMExXxFI
The story behind the game and EA's comment about 'not publishing it due to the senseless violence' and all that, plus it being pretty much the only game to ever receive the AO rating that wasn't a sex game really makes you think it's one sick, twisted game. Really it's not all that bad, and there certainly is more than one more violent game out there. It's like a creepy, violent twist on four player rock-em sock-em robots--but it's not as violent as its back story would have you believe, at least not by today's standards. - Veritate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My 3-year and a half year old son was watching my brother-in-law playing GTA: Vice City. I didn't think he really got it until after a while he began encouraging, "Hit the People! Hit the People!" He's always been good at separating fantasy and reality, and it was a fairly cartoonish level anyway, so we let him keep watching.
After some time, while the on-screen protagonist was fleeing the cops at high speed in a stolen car, my son started screaming, "Stooopp! Stoppp!" We looked at him querulously, wondering if it had just gotten too intense.
"Red light," he replied, pointing at the screen, where indeed the traffic light was a dull crimson, "You have to stop the car."
Oh, and he's six now. He plays less video games, and watches less tv, than 3/4's of the kids his age. He's also quite peaceful. Nevertheless, we don't have him watch the violent games anymore. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@BestJaxx
I dugg up your 2nd comment simply for being honest. - mattmoto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"force people to give you head"
Uh, I've played the game thoroughly, and there is no such thing in the game...
The rest of your description is accurate though, except getting raped by Rednecks, PDude wakes up and kills them before it happens. - Flawless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Carmageddon 1 and 2 need to be on that list.
Ahhh, the countless hours spent cruising through fields ramming into unsuspecting cows. The "MOOOH?!" sound they made just before being reduced to a mound of bloody mush was the most hilarious sound ever. - BestJaxx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7The God of War games are awesome, not to mention way more violent then Manhunt. Killing mythical beasts and humans has no difference in violence, and God of War is more gruesome with its killing. Actually, killing mythical beings represents more work, therefore it is more violent. God of War is way better in violence, and game play.
- yellowb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I grew up playing violent video games. I think kids are highly influenced and parents should have a better understanding on what their kids are playing / watching. I remember going to watch the Hills Have Eyes in theaters and there were a 2 family's that walked in to watch the film with their 6 year olds... I was thinking "Man do they not understand what they just took their kids to see?".
Some parents are clueless - this list is a good start for parents who don't have a clue on what's out there in the market.
I'm surprised they didn't have Postal, but they had Gears of War. I think this list is probably based on the popularity on games too. Thrill Kill was never released. I totally forgot about the Punisher with it's torture sequences, I need to pick this up again. -
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