Most violent video game... EVER.

[Raedon]

So.. what's the most violent video game of all time?

[Starcade]

Splatterhouse was pretty violent... :o

[GrandAmChandler]

Thrill Kill maybe?

[Queen Of The Felines]

Chiller. The graphics are primitive by today's standards, but jeez, when the goal of the game is to shoot the flesh off of people chained to torture devices (oh, and you can also ACTIVATE the said torture devices too!), you'd better believe it's violent.

Available on MAME, if anyone's interested. :P

Kristine

[Raedon]

I want to say GTA3 or Carmageddon for sheer body count. I almost want to say you have to do catigories..

FPS: probably Postal
Driving: Carmigeddon
action: GTA3
fighting: Thrill Kill is pretty violent but it didn't shock me at all when I saw it.. Mortal Kombat is the only fighting game that i've thought, "dang, that was messed up"
RPG - Xenosaga is pretty violent..
Platform - no idea, they all seem to have kid friendly content.

[Arcade Antics]

Chiller or GTAIII / VC.

Actually, Chiller, since there are other non violent objectives in the GTA series.

Chiller's only goal, as QOF pointed out, is to blast flesh off of people, zomibes, etc. That torture chamber scene is the most brutal thing in a game ever.

Ahhh... Exidy. :-D

[WiseSalesman]

I'd say the most violent platform game would be Conker's Bad Fur Day, Raedon. I mean, for the "Saving Private Ryan" and vampire sequences alone....

[Kid Fenris]

As far as fighting games go, BloodStorm (http://grblitz.overclocked.org/fighters.htm#bloodstorm) might just be worse than Thrill Kill.

And of course, the Japanese market has plenty of horrible hentai digital-comic titles that feature any kind of debauchery you could name.

[geelw]

as far as u.s. released titles, chiller definitely does it. there's an unlicensed NES cart version that was made, and i have one around here SOMEWHERE...
how can you forget...illbleed, a game i'm surprised made it to the u.s., lol!
enemy zero for the saturn had some fairly gory cinematics (and is still a pretty damn scary game overall). then, there's the genesis games sword of sodan and time killers if you remember those two (i never played tk in the arcades, btw)...

if you don't mind tons of green blood with a dash of the red stuff, there's D2 for the dreamcast, and yes, there are some import games that have loads of blood (or the suggestion of loads of blood) in them. many are text-based adventure games or anime/live action titles, and only playable with some grasp of the language, but that doesn't stop folks from seeking them out...

[IGotTheDot]

For body count it has to be State of Emergency. You can pile bodies pretty high before they start vanishing. It's not a great game, but pretty violent.

[ManekiNeko]

Ooh, thanks for the plug, Fenris!

JR

[hamburgler]

Thrill kill

[Six Switch]

Chiller or Thrill Kill.

[gamergary]

Chiller
I just find that game so amusing. LOL

[bobdrywalls]

vice city

[Alex Kidd]

Probably 'Eeek! The Cat' on the Super NES
He's about as Violet as they come...

Alex Kidd

What?... OH, violeNt... with an "N"... nevermind

[maxlords]

Chiller was friggin awesome :)

I'd also say Dead of hte Brain I and II for PC Engine was way up there too....digital comic Snatcher style, but VERY extreme.

And yeah, Illbleed was beyond over the top....rivers of blood soaking your character, all kinds of nasty shit! I loved that game...it's cheesier than all hell, but fun! :)

[Arqueologia_Digital]

I never forget the polemic that causes Mortal Kombat, but also Chiller, GTA & Doom (yes, it´s primitive, but remember all the people dead in the stages) are the most violent games.

[RetroYoungen]

I'd have to say THrill Kill. But I'm sort of surprised no one brought up Time Killers, I think that one was just as violent as any of the others. Goofy, but violent nonetheless.

[brandver3]

Postal and, from what I have read about it, Postal 2.

[badinsults]

Soldier Of Fortune has to be up there.

If you are talking console games, then Perfect Dark is in the running. Have you tried shooing a dude in the scrote?

[bargora]

I never forget the polemic that causes Mortal Kombat, but also Chiller, GTA & Doom (yes, it´s primitive, but remember all the people dead in the stages) are the most violent games.
It ain't violent to kill the undead.

At least that's what I always used to tell my mom...

So what are we talkin' here? Graphic ultra-violence, or pure body count?

[Neo-Jorge]

everyone knows the most violent game is technocop for the sega genesis. what other games lets you blow up crack whores and hookers.......other then GTA

and what about TG-16 it came from the desert what other game lets you blow ants off little girls



thanks

[captain nintendo]

max payne was pretty voilent, so was state of emergency....
i mean come on you can bash people in the head with a bat over and over and over until thier heads get squishy and more blood comes out. :2gunfire:

[davidbrit2]

What the hell? Metal Slug, people! :-)

There's just something charming about a game that lets you knife enemies that are engaged in casual conversation, torch them with a flame thrower, and blast them to plasma with a shotgun that would make Charlton Heston jealous. And yet, it does this all in a humorous context. Brilliant.

[NE146]

Again Tecmo Knight has a pretty violent intro (I posted the pics here a while ago but here are some again). And in the gameplay you claw at the enemies heads until you pop them off in a bloody mess!


http://www.users.qwest.net/~userid946/tk/tk1.png
http://www.users.qwest.net/~userid946/tk/tk3.png

[Videogamerdaryll]

I would have to say Vice City..at the moment..
But many games come to mind like BloodRayne...MOH frontline..
Chiller...hmm, that game is disturbing..for the time it was made.
I was shocked the first time I played it..

[pango]

LOL LOL LOL
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[pango]

LOL LOL LOL
http://grblitz.overclocked.org/worst_01.gif

[hu6800]

So.. what's the most violent video game of all time?

Hells groove kitchen for the psx....
they would never release that game here in the US.
without seriously changing everything in it.

[WiseSalesman]

Maybe Manhunt now? I mean, the whole "snuff film" premis is violent as hell to begin with.

Furthermore, I hear there are three kill animations with each weapon. I'm hard pressed to think of something more violent than knocking someone's head OFF with a baseball bat, or slicing completely through their neck with piano wire.

And, yes, I've played Chiller. Thanks to MAME.

[geelw]

gore-wise, as far as recent releases (the last 2 or so years):
manhunt
the thing
bloodrayne

the gta games are quite violent, but it's definitely more comical than shocking...

[bensenvill]

ya for everyone that thinks its anything other than Rockstar's Manhunt, needs to rent it. after a few hours you will be totally desensitized to violence.

~Tj

[Ed Oscuro]

I want to say GTA3 or Carmageddon for sheer body count. I almost want to say you have to do catigories..

FPS: probably Postal

Eh, I've never played the game but from the screenshots it was an isometric view title.

I'd have to throw in a "w00t" for Asylum (on MAME, unreleased; I had the first review of it somewhere, need to redo that...) and another for Akumajo Dracula x68000, what with the fetus enemies and cut up people everywhere. Gruesome stuff!

Honorable mention goes to the legendary Capcom title Sweet Home.

[hu6800]

Well.........
I dont know if you played hells groove kitchen or not....
but i know for a fact... Cutting rabbits in half with an axe is pretty f'ed up.
I know "committing suicide for fun" is pretty disturbing...
Or playing "Human Frogger"

Then again... go back further..
Download 2
Um......... yeah just play both games all the way.

I can see the same shit you see in any GTA , either on tv or for real.

[hu6800]

ya for everyone that thinks its anything other than Rockstar's Manhunt, needs to rent it. after a few hours you will be totally desensitized to violence.

~Tj

i dont know about that one,, ive been shot and shot at people
and im ok from it.

[Balloon Fight]

Toss up between Manhunt and Chiller. I'm kind of leaning towards Manhunt though.

[whoisKeel]

don't play alot of violent games, but i remember quake 2 striking me as violent at the time...you can blow up people that are already dead, and then there's the torture chamber stage...where peeps are getting mauled in the background with spinning razors and such. "it hurts, it hurts" lol

[Professor Hector]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre =p

[Raedon]

Man, when I posted this I didn't think about it, but a year or two from now something else will come along that is so violent, so nasty, so degrading to women, cows and Jesus that this thread could very well never have an end :eek 2:

[optic_85]

You can do amazingly f**ked up things to people in POSTAL 2. MY favorite past time is pouring gas on someone, lighting them on fire, piss on them(to put the fire out), watch em' squirm for a while, and then chop off their head with a shovel!........

[LAGO]

I've never played chiller, but i'm going to have to give my vote to Time killers. It's thefirst game I saw were you can cut off limbs and decapitate someone with one quick press of a button. It was kind of fun though, especially when your health is about out.

[Nicola]

Life & Death!

[vincewy]

For arcade - Blood Storm and Survival Art

For console - Manhunt (pretty safe to assume)

For PC - don't know, I've heard some games that'd just give you nightmares, some very disturbing stuff.

I'm surprised Mortal Kombat got all the critics and yet no one was talking about Blood Storm and Survival Art, those games make Mortal Kombat look like cartoon fighters.

[tyranthraxus]

At the time I thought Duke Nukem 3-D was pretty gory. I think it was one
of the first FPS where you'd run through a corpse and leave a trail of bloody
footprints.

Smash TV had a lot of cartoonish gore.

But GTA3 really set a standard the way you could just walk to anyone and
start wailing on them. Stomping on them as the lay on the ground until a
large pool of blood formed is stepping beyond the usual cartoon violence into
something more nasty.

[Funkenstein]

If you're going for sheer body count as opposed to shock value Starcraft probably ranks up there pretty high. It's not really gory but a whole lot of peons do get waxed.

And for a personal honerable mention, I wouldn't call Moonwalker violent really, but where else can you destroy your foes with the sheer force of your dancing AND get to blow up Joe Peschi?

[13u1313a]

1. Thrill Kill
2. Postal 2
3. Kingpin !!!

[stonic]

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[Parklife]

A long time ago I saw an arcade game with gameplay akin to Double Dragon. i remember one boss being a huge gorilla whose arms had to be knocked off, and another boss being twin medusas whose heads had to be ripped off. All of this was extremeley graphic. I've been looking for this game forever and have yet to find it. Anyone know the title and platform? (mame I assume)

[vincewy]

I've never played chiller, but i'm going to have to give my vote to Time killers. It's thefirst game I saw were you can cut off limbs and decapitate someone with one quick press of a button. It was kind of fun though, especially when your health is about out.

Well the sequal Bloodstorm makes it even more gruesome, you can cut off opponents' legs and arms and they can still fight. The finishing fatalities, instead of just cutting the arms and heads off, you can...well use your imagination.

[Epicenter]

Remember, games like VC don't MAKE you kill anyone .. you just have the option to. ;) And it's highly encouraged.

[DasCrewShtool]

the suffering

[BloodshedPlague]

Postal, GTA, and Night Trap

[Blendo75]

No one's mentioned NARC, the game where you "arrest" drug dealers with a rocket launcher? :)

[Raedon]

well, after cheating my way threw GTA: SA I know that wasn't the "most violent" at all.

[digitalpress]

well, after cheating my way threw GTA: SA I know that wasn't the "most violent" at all.

Dude, not even close! EVERY game has guys with guns these days. Just above San Andreas on the "most violent" list is Halloween for Atari 2600. It's got more blood and even more decapitations. And it's 20 years older.

[slip81]

I was thinking San Andreas, but I decided to go with Chiller because the intent of that game is way more violent. You can progress through SA without being that bad (but where's the fun in that :) ), but in Chiller you have to be nasty to progress through the game.

MK is pretty violent too, but it still doesn't ask you to preform an autopsy on living humans with bullets.

[imanerd0011]

I remember playing Time Killers at the Jersey Shore at some boardwalk arcade when I was in like 4th grade. I thought the game was sweet cause you could cut someones arm off with a chainsaw. I have to say it was the only game that amazed me only because of how violent it was.

[DJ_DEEM]

i really dont think thrill kill was THAT bad, i mean some of it was like eh but not really the worst ever,

chiller of course is just sick , awesome, but sick

but battletoads arcade was pretty bad, smashing peoples faces in and drillin em blood everywhere, that was sweet!

i remember thinking robocop vs. terminator was really gorey when i was little, i dont know how it stands up, that was like a long time ago but hey i just figured i'd mention it

[RYAN]

dont let your kids see these all should see good things not bad things
games are meant for entertainment its enough with the films game violence is coming in

chiller was the only one back then sword of sodan for genesis first home system game but didnt really made public
since 1990 and back were good but ever since mk 1 it really started it all they should all be banned

lets see for fact i can name these ones

,Narc arcade ,state of emergency ps 2, eternal champions sega cd
undying computer pc or computer the game blood ~doom GTA 3
Chiller arcade is the most and its up there i mk series
you think these are the worst Mortal kombat 2 the arcade version 3
and DEE worst one you should see
TIME KILLERS THE ARCADE < this ones no joke
this is the king of them all

[Ed Oscuro]

Mr. RYAN is aware that Tom Hall is working on the new NARC? Yes.

[Menacer]

I'll hop on the Chiller bandwagon. Every other game has some kind of storyline or reasoning (however poor) behind the violence. The point of Chiller is "shoot stuff to kill things."

And boy, it's still fun for some reason when I dig out the NES cart.

[cr0n0]

Chiller, just because it really has no storyline. Someone just decided to put people up on torture devices and have the player shoot the flesh off. BONUS points if you manage to completely sever a joint.

Story wise...I would say the suffering.

Followed closely by Mario Sunshine... LOL

[JJNova]

Mr. RYAN is aware that Tom Hall is working on the new NARC? Yes.

I saw a very short clip on this. You don't happen to have a production blog or anythign about the games development?

[Sotenga]

Allow me to bump the topic with this comment: Eternal Champions: Challenge From the Dark Side is so ridiculously (and humorously) gory that it makes Mortal Kombat look like the most kid-friendliest title since Donkey Kong Jr. Math. :eek 2:

[njiska]

I don't really think well ever be able to decalare a game the most vilolent simply because everyone's opinion of violence differes. However there are definitly some games that deserve honourable mention in the violent games catagory.

- Mortal Kombat, Doom and Nighttrap for bringing VG violence in the media spotlight. Hell they're the reason why we have the ESRB

- Duke Nukem 3d, simply because it has got to be the most popular game with an RSAC violence rating of 4: Wanton and Gartuitous Violence (Who doesn't love that level?)

- Chiller because... well because it's chiller. The game speaks for itself.

- GTA 3 and GTA:VC for bringing video game violence back into the spotlight and Manhunt for being one of the worst violent games that most people have played.

- Carmageddon for bringing fresh meat into the racing genre.

- Postal and Postal 2 for its over the top, "You're fucking right it's sick and depraved, what could be better?" attitude. Way to go Running with Scissors Software for not playing the censorship game.

- thrill kill of course is famous for being an inventive 4 play fighting game that got cancelled by EA because it was too violent

- The Punisher (PRIOR TO THE CENSORSHIP PREFORMED BY THQ) This game could've been the holy grail of violence, unfortunately due to an AO rating from the ESRB THQ had to tone down a lot of the violence which for me really hurt the experience. If you've seen the developer commentary on IGN or played that No censorship hack of the game you know exactly what i mean. As if the violence witnessed on screen wasn't enough the screams and pleas for mercy make it all the more cold and really add to the violent nature of the game. If you doubt me play the funeral level and fry someone in the creamatorium. Those screams combined with what was happening on screen made for one of the most distrubingly violent gaming moments in my life.

Those games represent the cream of the violent, main-stream crop and as you can see they're violent in different ways for different reasons. Each having aspects unique to it's own time. Choosing the most violent game is impossible.

I'd also like to mention Double Dragon 2 for the Genesis simply because of the opening. It's not bloody, it's not graphic, but there's just something about a villian unloading an entire clip from a machine gun into a woman that just seems so violent for that era. It's a shame the nes version lacks that intro.

[Muscelli]

manhunt is by far the worst...

[DynastyLawyer]

I gotta go outside the consoles and vote for Phantasmagoria, that old Sierra Point-and-Click adventure.

A lot of games fall for the traps of A. Making EVERY LAST DETAIL VIOLENT (which in effect creates a "yeah right" effect on the player, watch Kitana's fan move in MKII and seriously consider a person losing that much blood and fighting on) and MAKING THE VIOLENCE SERVE NO FUCKING PURPOSE (Dead to Rights and State of Emergency are guilty of this while remaining good games, Devil May Cry is an example of this in a poor context)

Phantasmagoria fell for neither trap. The violence occured only at specific plot points, where it was needed to progress the story, and it occured in a context where you felt (with one important exception) helpless to stop it. The game was obviously blue-screened in terms of backgrounds, but the characters were realistic enough to make the victims realistic. The violence was pretty serial-killer in terms of how ghastly it was (some might call it over-the top), but due to the fact that the majority of the game remained close to reality, and how subdued and peaceful (yet always eerie) the setting was, the violence that occured was the most realistic and powerful.

[SuperNES]

for PC, there's serious sam and quake III, both of which let you blast people into little chunks of meat. and in state of emergency you can chop off people's heads. X play did a show the other day about the goriest games. up there were bloodrayne 2, mortal kombat, and i forget what others.

[stonic]

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[Sotenga]

D'oh! I posted this link in another thread, and I remembered, "Hey, this game is incredulously violent!" Behold the crimson splendor of Waxworks.

http://www.nemmelheim.de/horrorsoft/elvira/screenshots/waxworks/index.html