Games that you can kill innocent people

[HappehLemons]

Who doesn't love a game where you can kill innocent bystanders in?

First game I played that you could do this is Mission Impossible for N64 and I was pretty shocked that I was able to kill someone who wasn't going to fight back. I think you only had 1 bullet or something though but I was really scared actually that I killed someone who was "good"

Other games was The World Is Not Enough for N64. I remember the people in the game would actually fall and then try to crawl away but die shortly after.

There's a few more I can think of, but I didn't play them until recently.
What I've got so far

Blackthorn
Flashback
Mission Impossible
World Is Not Enough
Fallout

Help my list out :]

[Sonicwolf]

The topic made me think you are some sort of homicidal wierdo looking for kicks. LOL

Grand Theft Auto series of games has a lot of innocent bystanders to kill.

[ryborg]

The World Is Not Enough for N64.

How do you mention this but not Goldeneye?

[HappehLemons]

How do you mention this but not Goldeneye?

In Goldeneye didn't the game end when you killed Natalya? I haven't played the game in a while so I could be wrong (actually now that I think about, I think I am wrong)... But that's really the reason I left it off. I don't really consider the game allowing you to kill people if the game just ends right after doing it.


The topic made me think you are some sort of homicidal wierdo looking for kicks.

Grand Theft Auto series of games has a lot of innocent bystanders to kill.

Noo @_@ I was afraid of that really.
I just think it's interesting that some games allow you to do this and not go with the *bullets magically passing thru* method. So it got me wondering how many games actually let you do this. I would actually like to make some kind of video with something pertaining to this theme at a later date, but for now I'm just mainly curious.

[ScourDX]

- Blood 2: the Chosen
- Morrowind
- Oblivion
- Hitman
- Duke Nukem 3d - If you count killing trap chicks

[CelticJobber]

You could shoot innocent bystanders in Lethal Enforcers.

[Nikademus1969]

In the 3DO version of Road Rash you can run people over, does that count?

[123►Genei-Jin]

Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Neverwinter Nights

[The 1 2 P]

Syphon Filter 1-3 on PS1. Some of the scientist in the first game beg you not to kill them. The trigger must have slipped or something.

[ryborg]

In Goldeneye didn't the game end when you killed Natalya? I haven't played the game in a while so I could be wrong (actually now that I think about, I think I am wrong)... But that's really the reason I left it off. I don't really consider the game allowing you to kill people if the game just ends right after doing it.

Yeah, you can't win by killing her specifically, but there are plenty of other random scientists and people in the streets just asking for it in some levels.

[SegaAges]

In the arcade version of california speed, there was a mall level where you could mow down innocent people in the mall. I thought it was funny so I bought the N64 version, and they took the running over bystanders part out

[PresidentLeever]

Hmm, Carmageddon? Probably Postal, never played that though.

[crazyjackcsa]

Any Light Gun game, but there is normally a penalty for it. Half life had scientists you could kill. Couldn't you hit bystanders in Twisted Metal?

[Ed Oscuro]

First game I played that you could do this is Mission Impossible for N64 and I was pretty shocked that I was able to kill someone who wasn't going to fight back. I think you only had 1 bullet or something though but I was really scared actually that I killed someone who was "good"
Somebody killed the piano player!

*GASP*

Also, you could kill scientists in Goldeneye. In Secret Agent (medium) difficulty, however, you could piss them off with a non-fatal wound and they'd pull DD-44 pistols and grenades on you.

Hmm...too many games I've played recently have this in them, actually. I was playing Varth earlier and shot Ryu (SHORYUKEN!) for points. Also, Heavy Metal FAKK 2 ends the game if you shoot the dopey people, but you're actually SUPPOSED to murder and otherwise torment these little squirrel-like things called schglieks (or whatever it is) at various points. That's an animal abuse simulator right thur.

Even more obscure than that, there's Nosferatu by some Swedish developers which is pretty cool for a playthrough; save your relatives and friends from a vampire's castle. You can shoot them by accident, whopos. I think you can kill innocents in The Wheel of Time, Clive Barker's Undying, and others. I try not to but they usually get bumped off anyway.

[Hwj_Chim]

Postal and Postal 2 are big ones. You could eat the people in primal rage.

[Nebagram]

It was funny in Night Trap when you 'accidentally' set off the traps at the wrong time. :)

[BHvrd]

http://www.dignews.com/legacy/screenshots/black_and_white_2_08.jpg

[Swamperon]

Lemmings?

They're so innocent and yet everyone gets a huge kick out of nuking them and watching their pixelated guts fly across the screen. BOOM!

[RPG_Fanatic]

Crackdown on the Xbox 360.

[VACRMH]

Anyone say Deception yet? I love that series.

[Daria]

Shadowrun for Genesis. My mom used to get so worked up that I'd harvest pedestrians for money and ammo.

And the Sims.

Ultima also. I used to love trying to kill the old people and the little girls in Ultima Exodus and then try and escape from town before the guards caught me.

[cooky560]

Crackdown on the Xbox 360.

Enough said, that game is basically about that :P

[Kim Possible]

Gangster Alley (VCS) but if you shoot the lady or the kid you pay for it!

Punisher (NES) same deal, don't shoot the sax player

Rampage (various) heck the goal is to eat the innocent people!

Ultima Exodus (NES), you can fight ANYONE, even old ladies and kids and wipe the floor with them, of course then come the guards...

Solaris (VCS) you can shoot the people you are meant to pick up, but they won't be happy

Defender (VCS) after falling from a destroyed alien craft you can just let those bad boys splat

Most of the LEGO games (Batman, Star Wars, etc.) let you take out your frustrations on various passers-by.

[Marriott_Guy]

Fable 1/2 - though you have to turn the 'safety' off.

[Scissors]

Rampage comes to mind.

[Push Upstairs]

In "Shadow Warrior" you could shoot the various anime chicks you run into. Shooting them doesn't do any harm/make enemies appear, but saying something crude to them will make most pull out uzi's and shoot you. LOL

[Daria]

Goonies II - Hitting old people with a hammer has never been more fun.

[kupomogli]

Legacy of Kain Blood Omen, Blood Omen 2, and Defiance.

I don't think it was possible to kill innocent people in the Soul Reaver games because I don't think there wasn't anyone that wasn't trying to kill you(or atleast I don't remember.) In Blood Omen and Blood Omen 2 there would be innocent people you can just kill. In Defiance there are people chained up in the first area that you could drain their blood.

SMT Nocturne and Final Fantasy 6

Two turn based RPG games you actually killed innocent people. In SMT Nocturne you sometimes ran into the Manikins in a random battle. In Final Fantasy 6, when playing as Locke in the part where he needs to escape South Figaro, you could attack a Merchant to steal his clothes, or kill him. There's also Vagrant Story but they're under control in that game.

[Baloo]

Grand Theft Auto is pretty much based AROUND killing and robbing innocent people.

[The 1 2 P]

In the Halo games you could kill some of your A.I. controlled team mates. The way I see it, they were going to die from the Covenant's attacks anyway so you might as well give them an honerable death first. Atleast thats what I told myself to justify my random killings.

Also in the Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic series you can kill tons of innocent people as well as take their loot. But doing so would lead to the dark side....and give you less hook ups the next time you rolled back into town.

[RASK1904]

Russian Roulette .

[thom_m]

Someone already mentioned the Sims - and why I found it fun to build a little room with no doors around the character and watch it piss itself and die in there, I'll never know - and I guess I don't want to.

Road Rash 3D for the PSX allows you to run over pedestrians. They kinda work as ramps, sometimes.

[Ed Oscuro]

In "Shadow Warrior" you could shoot the various anime chicks you run into. Shooting them doesn't do any harm/make enemies appear, but saying something crude to them will make most pull out uzi's and shoot you. LOL
I know, that was always...something else. But you need to kill the first one (the toilet girl >_< ) to get the item behind her. I decided I didn't need to be shot to get it.

Road Rash 3D for the PSX allows you to run over pedestrians. They kinda work as ramps, sometimes.
I wish Road Rash for N64 had pedestrians in it (also that it wasn't junk). :(

[Swamperon]

Ooh, in Zoo Tycon you could let vicious animals such as lions/tigers etc free and let them eat your guests!

And of course build really dangerous rollercoasters on Themepark and watch your visitors go flying off... they didn't die though. :(

[Flack]

I shot a bunch of innocent people in House of the Dead last night. Then I came home and shot my neighbor, 'cuz that's how I roll.

[Famidrive-16]

body harvest

[kainemaxwell]

Yeah, you can't win by killing her specifically, but there are plenty of other random scientists and people in the streets just asking for it in some levels.
Especially in the tank level.

[Gameguy]

Death Race and Chiller.

Of course, who can really say if all those people were really innocent. They were probably guilty of something.

[Flashback2012]

I remember splattering a ton of carcass from completely innocent deers using the school bus in the arcade version of Cruis'N USA. :-P

[j_factor]

Shadow of the Beast II, although there are very few innocent people in the game, the ones that are there can be killed.

[spaceFarmer]

Prototype for PS3/360. Seems like all you do in that game.

[CelticJobber]

I think you could kill innocent people in Perfect Dark too.

[exit]

In Final Fantasy Adventure for Gameboy, if you hit someone in a town long enough they die and their last words are whatever it is they were programmed to say. It's more of a glitch than anything else, but it was a fun way of letting your frustrations out, especially if you were stuck on that damn island because of that "Oasis and 8" riddle for fucking 5 years.

Seriously, I got that game when I was about 8 and didn't advance past that stage until i was in 7th grade and someone told me what the hell it was I had to do.

[Rickstilwell1]

The entire King's Field series.

In all US King's Field games you can go up to random people and kill them. In the two King's Field games for the PS One, it took many more hits to kill an innocent person than it did in King's Field the Ancient City.

You are only stabbing yourself in the foot if you do it though. These innocent people will never come back to life if you do this to them, and it may make it impossible to complete your game. If a character was supposed to give you an important item, you will not find it on their body when they die.

I don't know about the first Japanese only King's Field though. From what I hear that game is quite short so it probably doesn't have people in it, or very few if there are.

[Haoie]

If I'm not mistaken, Contact [DS] allows you kill anyone.

[Push Upstairs]

"Destroy all Humans 1 & 2" I guess this doesn't totally count as it is an implied part of the game, but there are people you'd don't *HAVE* to kill that you can.




I know, that was always...something else. But you need to kill the first one (the toilet girl >_< ) to get the item behind her. I decided I didn't need to be shot to get it.

You can jump on top of her sprite to get the item.

But "Sailor Moon" on the ship gives you items when you talk to her.

[kupomogli]

especially if you were stuck on that damn island because of that "Oasis and 8" riddle for fucking 5 years.

I hated that bs. Atleast until I figured it out. But yeah. When I first got it, I stopped there and didn't play it for a couple years, then picked it up later and got past it(after starting a new game and getting there again though.) The game is awesome now that I don't have to worry about that puzzle. Kind of like Wild ARMs. I'm a big fan of the Wild ARMs games, but you can be sure that some of the puzzles have pissed me off to no end.

[PSony]

You could go around killing people in True Crime Streets of LA and NYC just like GTA.

[tom]

Little Computer People
You can kill your little man living inside your C64 by not feeding him and not giving him water. He dies a horrible death.

[Game Freak]

In Resi 4 you can kill the merchant and Ashley...

EDIT - and in RollerCoaster Tycoon, you can set a steel rollercoaster to power launch and up the launch speed and watch them explode a fiery death

more fun with the Shuttle Loop!

[Flack]

Rampage(s).

[Ed Oscuro]

Oh gosh, how did I forget Raiden Fighters Jet (http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27936)? Yep, you shoot them Fairies and Micluses if you ain't careful. Fairy wilts and Miclus goes boom (actually the Miclus is supposed to be shot). You can play AS the Fairy or Miclus, too, which probably poses some uncomfortable philosophical questions...for them.

[Game Freak]

In Freedom Force on the NES you can shoot the hostages (quite fun!)

[kupomogli]

You could go around killing people in True Crime Streets of LA and NYC just like GTA.

Well since True Crime. Driv3r, Driver Parallel Lines, and Driver 76. Scarface the World is Yours as well, but only cops(anyone in the game that doesn't attack you Tony won't attack, but even if the cops don't attack you can still attack them.)

Vampire Killer(a Castlevania game,) you can change the colors of the Merchant or whip him enough times to kill him.

[Ed Oscuro]

I just realized that the topic title is missing the word "with" at the end.

I believe that any game would suffice. Colonel Mustard in the Library with the SMB / DH cartridge (Combat for oldtimers).

[Vroomfunkel]

Meh, you can kill innocent people with any game, if you insert it far enough into the correct orrifice.

[JunkTheMagicDragon]

don't think anyone's mentioned it, but in god of war, innocents were walking (or running and screaming) fountains of free health. ah, nothing like slaughtering innocents to make yourself feel better about killing your own family.

[BetaWolf47]

Area 51, Virtua Cop, etc. Light gun games are full of them.

[mkestreet]

Twisted Metal 2 for PS1 was a good one for killing innocent bystanders. They could be somewhat of a problem when they walk in front of a missle directed toward an enemy so i usually just kill them all with the machine gun right away.

[lazyhoboguy]

state of emergency , you can kill whole crowds of innocent people and it's quite fun too lol

[Misto]

Although not technically people, in Jet Force Gemini, you could blast those tribal bears. You were supposed to save them, or you could dismember them with your bullets or grenades :)

Also someone mentioned Roller Coaster Tycoon. But you could also pick people up and drop them in water and watch them drown to death.

And in Rainbow Six games, you can shoot hostages you are supposed to rescue, although I believe you fail if you kill them all.

[sebastiankirchoff]

In Counter-Strike you could kill hostages, but you loose money that could be used to buy guns. I also believe if you kill all the hostages the terrorists win, but I haven't played in a long time so it could have changed.

[LucidDefender]

Deus Ex. You could even kill *gasp* children!

[HurricaneAndrew]

Either of the True Crime games, but they're a little new to mention...

Any post-Genesis Road Rash you can mow down innocent pedestrians.

[jcalder8]

Assassin's Creed and the Viva Pinata games

[Astrosmash]

I don't think I saw it mentioned yet - Primal Rage (or at least the arcade version, I don't remember if it was in any of the home versions) had the humans on the sidelines of the fight that you could throw up in the air and eat.

[NoahsMyBro]

I didn't read the middle of this thread, so maybe it's been mentioned, but one of the explicit challenges in Choplifter was to not kill the innocents, so you could easily kill them there. (Dumb beauracrats, running underneath a landing helicopter! Sheesh, you'd think they might have noticed the sudden noise and wind!)

Also, Defender and Stargate.

[DDCecil]

Quarantine. You get to run over people.

[lazyhoboguy]

state of emergency , you can kill whole crowds of innocent people and it's quite fun too lol


Just uploaded a video of this game. You can massacre defenseless clones lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9a-PawpNco

[exit]

In Scarface you can kill people on the sniper mission and any other mission where you aren't playing as Tony Montana. You can kill people in Godfather as well, only it's not as fun as it is in GTA.

[Aswald]

Who doesn't love a game where you can kill innocent bystanders in?

First game I played that you could do this is Mission Impossible for N64 and I was pretty shocked that I was able to kill someone who wasn't going to fight back. I think you only had 1 bullet or something though but I was really scared actually that I killed someone who was "good"

Other games was The World Is Not Enough for N64. I remember the people in the game would actually fall and then try to crawl away but die shortly after.

There's a few more I can think of, but I didn't play them until recently.
What I've got so far

Blackthorn
Flashback
Mission Impossible
World Is Not Enough
Fallout

Help my list out :]


What about Defender?

[Ed Oscuro]

In Counter-Strike you could kill hostages, but you loose money that could be used to buy guns. I also believe if you kill all the hostages the terrorists win, but I haven't played in a long time so it could have changed.
More to the point if you kill the last remaining hostages after the others have been rescued, the Counter-Terrorists win, which is counter-intuitive! "Good" old exploit the CT team used to use all the time just to win matches. Don't remember if it still works in Source, probably does.

[garagesaleking!!]

you can kill hostages and lethal enforcers as well, also the game postal, now that you mention it you can kill innocent people in a lot of games, lol.:frustrated:

[Ed Oscuro]

Don't forget Nocturne, where you can lead hostages in the mining town straight to zombies!

[Compute]

Felony 11-79!

In the 16bit WWF games you could punch the ref and knock him out, eventually he would leave. so that's not killing but was as fun.

I seem to remember you could kill innocents in Black Dawn for the PS1. Also Desert Strike and its descendents allowed you to mow down anything waddling across the screen.

Skitchin' for the Genesis allowed you to run people over iirc, but that engine was the same as Road Rash so it makes sense, aside from the thought of running someone over while on rollerblades going 45mph.