I know there are alot of violent video games out there right now, but what games have you guys played that actually grossed you out? I have to say that the one game that still grosses me out is the original Mortal Kombat. Subzero’s fatality where he rips out your spinal court still makes me go “EEEEEEEWWW!” every time.
While playing System Shock 2, I had to spend five minutes dithering around the escape pod because I was really didn’t want to step outside. Those of you who have played it that far should know what I’m talking about.
GTA3 is pretty danged violent, but not in a gruesome fashion. Describing it to others, however, is best to be avoided.
I’ll mention the Postal 2 demo, which sounds pretty nasty from just reading the reviews. However, just downloading the file makes my computer crash, so it seems Og doesn’t want me to try it.
Carmageddon. Gotta be Carmageddon.
I mean, come on. This is the game where you drive over pedestrians for points. And not just as something you can do on the side, it’s the whole point of the game. I don’t think it’s even beatable with just straight racing, though I tried a couple times.
It’s really kinda trippy when you play that game for six hours and go driving for real. I’d think, “Hmm, that group of peds on the corner could get me a 4x combo with a Bonus For Artistic Impression if I turned the wheel just so…”
Hmm. You’re talking about the last third of the game where you take the fight to the Many, right? I don’t recall that being particularly gory, but that may be overshadowed by the annoyance that suffuses the memory.
I second Carmageddon 1 (and 2–whose major distinction was now limbs could fly off separately). I played the original Postal when it was in free public beta, and that stands out mostly because of all the sampled screaming-in-terror-and-pain going on (“My eyes! My eyes!”)
** Worms ** 
Ok, no seriously, I’ve played a couple of gory ones including those mentioned above (Postal and Carmageddon), but ** Mortal Kombat ** (the original, and part 2) would get my vote because that was one of the first games I was truly addicted to due to its relatively new genre and interactivity (at the time).
I mean, in what other game would you have the chance to decapitate your opponent, slice em 'n dice 'em and pull out their hearts? Certainly none at the time.
Oh, and the idea to add ‘babalities’ and ‘frienships’ to MK3 was ridiculous and hopelessly pathetic.
I just got the Postal 2 demo - it does get pretty violent/gory/sickening. You can urinate on people, then cut their heads off with a shovel. Or blow their brains out with a gun. Or other things like that.
I’m pretty sure that “friendships” and “babalites” were first available for MK2…at least for the Sega Genesis version.
I think the idea was more of a joke than anything else, but I remember a rep from some video game company giving a statement to the press, to the effect of: “People shouldn’t complain about the violence of the game…after all, there is an option to make a “friendship” with your defeated opponent instead of killing him.”
I haven’t played SS2, but I’ve played all the rest listed. I guess Carmageddon 1/2 could qualify in the most-people-mowed-down category. Other games with mere guns can’t touch the splatter. I’ve got to say the “gore” in MK seemed tacked on to me though. Like most other games, doesn’t rate more than a “hmm” really. OTOH, while Postal 1 & 2 aren’t the absolute goriest games around, they are the only games I’d actually be ashamed/embarassed to have someone catch me playing. It takes a really rough day at work to play that game; any other time, and it just seems a bit anti-social to be whanging heads off with a shovel.
Yep, my mistake. You’re right about that, it was the ‘animality’ they added to MK3 wasn’t it?
The Carmageddon series was bad, but I think Soldier of Fortune 1 & 2 were worse. In those games the objective became to shoot off body parts of your enemies just to see their reaction before you finished them.
I’ve played Postal 2 (the full game) through a couple times. It’s pretty rough. You can blow apart people’s heads with the shotgun, in which case you see chards of white skull flying in addition to chunks of brain. And sometimes when you burn someone to “death”, they aren’t actually dead afterwards, but try to crawl away pathetically. And for some reason, you can put a cat on the end of your shotgun and shoot through it, although I wasn’t able to figure out what that gains you, if anything.
After you beat it once you can play an “enhanced game”, where in addition to more powerups and more powerful weapons, you piss napalm(!).
And the game “plot” is mighty tasteless. One of the tasks you have to accomplish is to take piss on your father’s grave. A church is attacked by muslim stereotype terrorists. And the last task is to deliver a birthday present to uncle Dave, who turns out to be:
[spoiler]
David Koresh. This level is you fighting the ATF while they invade the Branch Davidian compound.
They thankfully left out burning children.[/spoiler]
Parasite Eve is the goriest game I’ve ever played. Lots of gross stuff. I liked the game itself, but I was sort of grossed out by a lot of the scenes. I’ve heard that PE2 is even gorier, which is why I didn’t buy it and play it.
Doom. It had literal rivers of blood.
Well, I don’t play many games, but the one I have played which fits this category was Red Neck Rampage. Damn, that was a fun game…totally got into your head. I still think about some of the locales and can’t remember if it is a place I used to go in real life or if it was just on the game…
And the shooting! And arrows, tipped with dynamite. Yee ha!
After I mastered the game, I would go through and try to kill every living thing (whole bunch of chickens and pigs in every scene…)
Get off my land!
Back in the day, Blood was quiet the gory game. Then a year later (I think) Soldier of Fortune came out. That was quite gory; being able to take a shotgun to someone’s gut and observe as their innards spilled out.
SOFII was even more gory than the original, but the gameplay was terrible. Every one in awhile I reload that game to play through again. There’s nothing wrong with running into a room with a shotgun and blowing off people’s legs, then cracking their skulls apart right?
As for Postal 2, it’s not as much so violent as it is just disturbing and sick (pissing in people’s mouths to make them throw up? That’s just a bit beyond my limit)
The demo version of Soldier of Fortune I had a de-bug mode that allowed you to spawn anything in the game. You could tie the spawn command to a macro, and then just sit there and shoot skeet. Of course, the thugs I was spawning might not have actually been named Skeet…
Mark of Kri for PS2 was pretty odd. Featured Disney-style character designs (I think the designers worked of Don Bluth at one point), but realistic violence. Chopping people in half, beheadings, all that good stuff.
Something by Bloodlust Software.
I’ll 2nd Mark of Kri - for a game which isn’t courting the ‘blood and guts’ market particularly - it’s seriously nasty in places…
Each ‘killing move’ is shown off to it’s best degree - you don’t just stab people on the ground, you “stir the sword around” - you sneak up on people and then rather than just cut their throads you lop off the entire head in grandiose stylee etc. etc.
Not for the kiddies that one
Games like Postal are deliberately made to offend - free publicity means sales etc etc - and MK and GTA are just ‘parody violence’ (tho that’s an argument I’m not getting into
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I remember if you hit a pedestrian just right, you could knock off a leg, and they’d hop around on one leg with blood spurting out until you finished them off. And you could run over animals too… any game that has a slider bar for “Gore” in the set-up menu has my vote 
I bought Postal 2 after playing the demo - the game is insanely fun, quite unlike any FPS I have ever played. Yeah, the graphics and the AI are not exactly state-of-the-art, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun. As far as gore, it’s not really that bad, though. You have only a handful of gore effects - you have the ‘burnt’ skin that characters have after burning to death, you have the blood sprays and puddles from kills, you have decapitation (head intact) from the shovel, and you have decapitation (head splattered) from the shotgun. It’s not the amount of blood and guts that makes the game so over the top, it’s the sheer scale of the mayhem, and the insanity of some of the stranger weapons (BTW, the cats acts as silencers). My favorite so far is the Diseased Cow Head. You throw it, and where it lands it emits a cloud of vapors that makes anyone nearby throw up blood until they die. After the vapors wear off you can kick it or shoot it and often get it to emit the fumes again.
Soldier of Fortune 2 had much more realistic and gorey effects. You could shoot off any body part, to varying degrees. The head was made up of something like 19 separate parts so you could have a countless variety of partial decapitations.