Videogames and violence go together like peanut butter and jelly. As any stoned out college boy can tell you, they complement each other perfectly and are twice as difficult to completely separate.
Efforts to remove any form of violence from video games have been met with scrutiny, scorn and downright failure. It cost Florida penal irritant Jack Thompson his career, his credibility and his ability to appear on television within five seconds of a bloody, national tragedy so he can blame it all on Banjo-Kazooie.
It's a fruitless and pointless effort. Videogames allow people to tap into that repressed aggression gene that lets us run wild and exact our revenge on the people who have wronged us without having to face a federal indictment, start a fight club or join some weird men's group that meets shirtless in the woods and howls at the moon like feral dogs.
That being said, some games give our Ids more bloodlust than any normal human being requires. These are the games that give violent videogames that target younger customers with promises of entertainment of an adult oriented nature a bad name.
10. The Punisher
It's hard not to expect a high level of violence in a game that's based on a comic book character soaked in more blood than a Scottish dinner recipe. This game, however, took that expectation and shoved it face first into a wood chipper.
The Punisher sharpening his knives with the skull of a low level
mafia lackey, new from Ronco.
The game loosely based on the film gives a hard edge to the meaning of hard-edged. Players play as the well-armed hero as he tries to take down the entire New York crime syndicate by blowing a giant hole in anyway who gets in his way. The bloodiest features of the game are the interrogations. Players can use any number of background objects from a jigsaw to an industrial strength ceiling fan to a tank of piranha to get the goons to spill their guts before the player gets bored and decides to do it for them.
9. Dead Rising
This fun but frustrating "Dawn of the Dead" rip-off lets players rip off just about every conceivable part of the human anatomy in new and interesting ways. The most telling feature about this zombie smash'em up is the fact that guns are the least useful weapons in the game.
Ash had his chainsaw. Dirty Harry has his magnum. Frank had his bench.
Players run around a huge mall infested with the walking dead shoplifting items from stores and finding new ways to void their warranties by turning them on the zombie horde. By far, the goriest weapon in the bunch is the post-hole digger that impales the zombie on the spinning drill bit and twirls its lifeless body around knocking its zombie brethren to the cold, hard ground. You'll find it in, of course, the hardware store, which as author Max Brooks taught us is the first place you should go at the start of a zombie attack. If you don't know who Max Brooks is or what I'm referring to, please stay the hell away from me during the apocalypse.
8. Postal 2
This infamous underground shoot'em up flies in the face of every hardcore anti-video game safety Nazi who ever thought he or she was saving humanity by making strangers sign petitions for their local congressman to throw away or use as a coaster before throwing it away.
It doesn't just let the player shoot innocent people. It also lets them shoot innocent people by using an innocent cat as a silencer...
smash innocent people in the face with a shovel and dislodge their innocent head from its innocent spine...
pour gasoline on innocent people and innocently light them on fire...
and infect innocent people with anthrax by tossing an exploding cow's head at their innocent feet.
Then after you enter your name, the game begins.
7. Gears of War 2
Any game about the horror of war should be violent. War is hell. Anyone who rallies against video games and claims titles like "Call of Duty" and "Command and Conquer" should be less violent are contributing to the desensitization of the threat and dangers of real war. "Gears of War 2" has the opposite effect. It makes the real thing look like a summer vacation in the Bahamas.
A touching scene from the "Gears of War Thanksgiving Special".
The addition of new messy short range weapons and the ability to perform a number of very in-your-face finishing moves gives the game more blood, more skull cracking and more violent. And all this from a game whose predecessor let you chainsaw someone from their neck to their knob while they were still alive, assuming that locusts have "knobs". That's a different list.
6. Manhunt
Rockstar Games isn't the company that shies away from controversy. Rather, they crave it. They need it. They want it. They are so notorious for creating brilliantly violent and gory games that Jack Thompson had his finger on the red button when the company announced they were producing a physics realistic "Table Tennis" game.
The only sport involving a baseball bat that isn't under the influence of anabolic steroids.
The original "Manhunt," however, is definitely the bloodiest, and that's saying a lot for a company that created a game that lets you carjack people, then chase the fleeing driver down and run them over with their own car. The player convicted killer James Earl Cash, a man saved from death row by a sadistic director who needs him to star in his underground snuff tapes. Cash uses everything from plastic bags to crowbars to chainsaws to slice, crush, choke, disembowel and sever major arteries by sneaking up behind them. The most brutal kill features Cash sneaking up on someone with a baseball bat, choking them unconscious until they fall to their knees and hitting them in the head and smashing their skull clean off of its neck like some twisted, sadistic game of T-ball.
5. Thrill Kill
Despite its time, the original Playstation didn't have a lot of very violent games. It had some arcade titles that transferred a few pints of B-negative to home consoles, but not many original ones. All you have to do is look to the games that didn't make it to the console to understand why. "Thrill Kill" was supposed to be a four on four fighting game set in the pits of Hell, but was pulled at the last minute when testers thought the game actually came from there.
Hey Oddball, how do you fight in such bloody battles for your soul
and keep your whites their whitest?
Four players square off in a mind's eye view of what their character believes to be Hell for a fight to the death, which is redundant since they're already in Hell. Everything about the game is violent from the game play to the characters themselves. Players can choose a redneck cannibal called Cleetus who came to Hell after he died from a parasitic tapeworm he contracted while eating someone's leg. They can pick "The Imp," a violent midget government employee with a Napoleon complex who fights his enemies on stilts. They can even pick the Tormentor, a chain-wielding judge who would dismiss cases against serial killers so he could exact his own form of bloody justice with his own gavel stained hands. He must be from Texas.
4. Chiller
Some games can justify their bloody content with a good story, rewards or the illusion of self-defense. This 8-bit horror style thriller has none of these, which makes us wonder what the hell Jack Thompson was doing in the mid 80's instead of protesting and filing legal petitions to ban a game in the early 2000's that no one had even played yet.
Your average HMO waiting room.
"Chiller" is a shooting gallery game that lets players mutilate innocent people in a dungeon that looks like Rob Zombie's guest bedroom and awards them points for doing so for absolutely no reason. There isn't a story to set up the carnage or a reason naked, middle-aged white people are having their heads squashed in an apple press or their guts torn out on the rack. You just have to accept it. In that sense, the game is probably the most philosophical game of its time.
3. Carmaggedon
Now whereas "Chiller" doesn't offer any clear motive for your violent actions, "Carmaeggdon" actually justified their carnage. You get points!
Your average HMO parking lot.
Taking a page from "Death Race 2000" or ripping it off from cover to cover depending on your point of view, "Carmaggedon" was a late-90s PC racing game that let players either finish the race in the fastest amount of time or destroy their competition and be the only left standing while running over a crowd of fleeing pedestrians along the way. You could drive a souped-up race car, a monster truck, a drag racer and even a huge dump truck. Ironically, there was no ambulance.
2. Total Carnage
This coin-op from the makers of the original "Smash TV" won't just make you sick from the gaping chest wounds and flying limbs. The unrelenting U.S. kicking ass patriotism will also make you want to vomit.
Even the makers of "Painful Bloody Blood Lust 4: The Thirst for
Bloody, Bloody Baby's Blood" thinks that's too much blood.
This revamped "Smash TV" hybrid ramped up with more testosterone and balls than a Spanish bull hit arcades in the 90's and gave young ones the blood lust fix they had been craving for but couldn't get until video game companies could trick their parents into buying a console for them to prove their love. Captain Carnage and Major Mayhem have to stop a middle-eastern dictator, General Akhboob who sounds as though Sean Hannity may have been consulted as a researcher for this game, from poisoning America's baby formula supply and killing embedded reporters. The game featured more explosions and fireballs than a Bruckheimer movie that's short on script and plot (any of them) and ironically enough, the brunt of the violence on the game's heroes. You could die from electrocution, being set on fire and left to burn until your flesh turns to ashes or getting a giant hole blown through your torso. You could also die in the arcade version if it tipped over and fell on top of you. But if it does, than you deserve to die because that is not an accident. That's evolution.
1. Harvester
Calling "Harvester" a violent game would be like calling Jack Thompson a pompous arrogant, know-it-all douchebag who abuses his authority to promote a philosophy that he knows what's best for everyone and doesn't deserve to lick a footprint off the sidewalk for sustenance. It's nothing they haven't heard before.
Harvester: from the makers of "Painful Bloody Blood Lust 4:
The Thirst for Bloody, Bloody Baby's Blood."
"Harvester" took no prisoners with their sick and twisted story of a lost man in a town filled with blood hungry cannibals, inept trigger-happy deputies and bat wielding elementary school teachers. Anyone in this game could get cut up including women, children and even babies. It then wraps the whole game up with a forced ironic ending about video games prolonging the cycle of violence throughout society. The truth is the only violence it created was from people throwing the disc for this game out the window and accidentally lodging it in someone's skull.
Danny Gallagher is a freelance writer, reporter, humorist and safety Nazi. His website is www.dannygallagher.net . He can also be found on Facebook and MySpace at www.myspace.com/dannyghatesmyspace.
Rob Shepard(11 months ago)
can Time Killers be #11 please?
iriart(11 months ago)
so Thrill.
Chris Orr(11 months ago)
I really think Soldier of Fortune 2 deserves a place on this list. I mean what other games can you:
-Shoot a guy in the head with a pistol until his brains come out
-Completely dismember a person to pieces in seconds with and automatic shotgun
-Turn people into red dust with a modern MG42
-Cut peoples corpses up with a knife or bayonet
-Gut people and shoot them in the crotch for a dickshot death animation
I woulda thought it'd be number 3 or 2 at least
Abcent(11 months ago)
The fact Time Killers isn't in this is sad.. Do your homework Danny Gallagher..
R J(11 months ago)
Ninja Gaiden 2... Anyone....
Bloodiest game of 2008
kjohnson(11 months ago)
Or Dead Space. Holy shit.
aj(11 months ago)
i think manhunt 2 should be number 1
JR(11 months ago)
What!?!? Where in the world is Splatterhouse?!? That game gave me nightmares as a kid.
Steve(11 months ago)
Sorry - most violent game ever was Pacman. Only game where you eat your enemies.
Brian(11 months ago)
what, no rise of the triad?
brent(11 months ago)
uh Fallout 3? Theres a perk called Bloody Mess where people EXPLODE. ya think that would deserve a mention, among the other crazy ass things in that game
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dana(11 months ago)
what? no soldier of fortune??
RonnyGunz(11 months ago)
I think you may be obsessed with Jack Thompson. It's over, man. Let it go.
Vern(11 months ago)
Where is Condemned 2? or Fallout 3?
Anon(11 months ago)
The most disturbing thing about this article was the fact that it was written at a 3rd-grade level.
GIDU(11 months ago)
MAN HUNT VIDEO WAS TOO MUCH VOILENCE.
nerister(11 months ago)
check out phantasmagoria1 & 2
some gory, sick stuff
at one point in # 1, u watch a girl get killed by shoving entrails down her throat till she suffocates, sick sick stuff
Ernesto(11 months ago)
What about Kirby???
You eat your enemies
Think about it.
harrykid32(11 months ago)
And fallout 3 isn't on the list....Weird...
ColdNorway(11 months ago)
I agree that the Soldier of Fortune series should be somewhere on this list. And The Punisher got neutered as they censored the interrogation killls by making the picture turn black & white and forcing the camera to pan away as the kills were executed.This game was only saved on the pc by a hack fixing these censorship issues,the P2 and xbox got a lame anemic game. Even the game intro was censored by darkening the picture,we got an intro that was useless as you couldn't see anything. I picked up this game dirt cheap just to have the right to say;Yes I played it ,and it's really bad.
Martin(11 months ago)
List is invalid without Soldier of Fortune 1 or 2.
Allison(11 months ago)
:) When I saw the link entitled "10 Most Insanely Gory Videogames", I was like "PLease let Thrill Kill be on it..." Kudos!!!
Torque(11 months ago)
Good list, but where's Mortal Kombat? Ya can't deny there's quiiiite a lot of gore in there, from the first game to the new ones.
R(11 months ago)
Soldier of Fortune 2 for sure. You guys have dropped the ball.Where do you find the idiots that write this stuff?Do you even play video games? Sort it out..
Johnny Walker(11 months ago)
Holy crap! I read this list and I was thinking, Harvester better be on here. I got that game when I in 9th grade. A game like that would never fly on a major platform nowadays... sickest game ever.
Malcolm(11 months ago)
A Concise Summary Of Fifty Percent Of The Above Comments:
"BOO HOO HOO I THOUGHT OF A GAME THAT SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST THAT WASN'T ON THIS LIST"
"YOU ARE TERRIBLE, BAD PEOPLE"
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walrus(11 months ago)
you kind of forgot (or never played) Killer7 and No More Heroes...
newman(11 months ago)
remember playing punisher, and thinking this is insane, good post.
Grim(11 months ago)
Wow these people that are complaining! Do you understand this list is subjective? its his view of Gory Games. It was not from a poll that was taken. Make your own list and see how many morons will disagree with you.
trogdor(11 months ago)
NO RISE OF THE TRIAD?! sad
danna(11 months ago)
what? no soldier of fortune???
minimimitchi(11 months ago)
OH WAAAAH, I FOUND A GAME YOU DIDNT INCLUDE HERE! YOU ARE HORRIBLE PEOPLE FOR NOT INCLUDING IT! WAAAAH! I SHOULD TAKE OVER THIS SITE AND RUN IT MYSELF!WAAAH!BECAUSE I WOULD WRITE STUFF SOOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS!WAAAAH!YOU SHOULD BE SORRY FOR NOT PUTTING MY STUFF ON HERE!WAAAH! ................................................... seriously people.grow up a little.they have their reasons for including what they included.have respect for their opinions.
by the way,if you are a blonde, i didn't mean what i said in caps,it was just an example of how immature some ppl are here.
Gene(11 months ago)
I was expecting to see The Suffering on here. That game is pretty gory.
Great list though!
Sebastin(11 months ago)
Where is Condemned 2? or Fallout 3??
Malcolm(11 months ago)
^^^
Check your mom's vagina, I saw a few guys rooting through there a couple hours ago.
zadanda(11 months ago)
What about Kirby???
You eat your enemies
Think about it..
Johnarchy(11 months ago)
Frankly, I'm shocked as to how many people are up in arms about a few titles left off the list.
My GOD people, it's a video game-centric humour site! A damn funny one at that. There are so many outrageously violent games out there that a "complete" list would be impossible. Also, like someone else has mentioned it's pretty damn subjective too. What one could find overtly violent, someone else may think its just plain nifty (running down hookers in GTA).
Robyn Robotron(10 months ago)
Well, I can't believe so many people are so up in arms because others are mentioning games that aren't on this list. It's a comment page on an article on the internet, that's what it's for.
And Alison, I think the exact same thing every time I see a list like this. I wish I could have played it more often than I did. Funny how the only people to mention it on here appear to be girls.
xplosivpenguins(9 months ago)
Conker's Bad Fur Day?
AlaskaBoy(9 months ago)
Uhh Ummm What about MadWorld?
Just got it and giggled all the way while throwing mohawk wearing punks into a jet engine!!
sahil yadav(8 months ago)
where is god of war .
me(5 months ago)
God of war?
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