Cruel games. How dangerous are they for the human psyche? How dangerous are violent computer games? As an epilogue

Computer shooters are very popular today. Sometimes the battle unfolding on the screen is striking in its cruelty. Blood flows like a river, characters die in agony. And the player sitting in front of the screen continues to kill virtual opponents over and over again.

Some do it with frenzy, others in cold blood. The presence of violence in these "action" games bothers many people.

For decades, there has been debate about how dangerous the impact of violent video games on children can be.

Some countries have banned the sale of games of a certain category.

So, in Brazil in 2008, a ban was passed on sales of the games Counter-Strike and EverQuest.

In Greece it is completely prohibited to play any computer games in public places. Even playing chess on a laptop somewhere in a park can get you three months in prison or a fine of up to $10,000. However, the ban was initially directed against gambling, however, officials were unable to clearly define the criteria for selecting gambling from non-gambling games and banned everything at once.

In Russia The authorities attempted to fight the games in the Belgorod region. They issued a decree banning the distribution of “products that promote violence, aggression and antisocial behavior” in computer stores. The wording is also very general; according to it, you can be held accountable even for a game where a character breaks wall cubes, since this can be regarded as an act of vandalism.

In Germany There are also active discussions about introducing a ban on “bloody shooters.” Especially after the pogrom perpetrated by one of the students at the school in March 2009. 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer shot 15 people with his father's pistol and then committed suicide. A popular team game Counter-Strike, a game in which he spent a significant part of his time.

Psychologists point out the danger of addiction to games in general. “Hooked” on games, a person, and especially a teenager with an unformed psyche, is capable of extremely cruel acts.

All of Russia was shocked by the story of a 17-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, who in June 2012 stabbed to death his own mother, who forbade him to play for days on end. His mother constantly made comments to him, and after another conflict a major quarrel broke out. Outraged by her son's idleness, the woman turned off the computer and kicked him out of the room, locking herself from the inside. The angry teenager grabbed a knife, broke down the door and stabbed his mother several times, after which he turned on the computer and continued the game. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee, “the victim independently got to the phone and called “ Ambulance" He died while undergoing medical procedures. The teenager continued to play Counter-Strike on the computer when doctors arrived.

Dmitry Vinogradov, who shot seven colleagues in a Moscow office in November 2012, was also a big fan of the similar computer game Manhunt. After this crime, a commission was created in the State Duma to oversee the sale of video games, and this game may be completely banned from sales in Russia, as happened in Australia, Germany, Canada and New Zealand. In the UK, it was the game Manhunt that was considered as a “catalyst” for brutal murders during the investigation of one of the high-profile cases.

Violent video games don't make kids angrier.

Most computer games contain elements of violence to one degree or another. But how dangerous can this be? A number of experts warn against over-dramatizing the impact of brutal “shooters” on the mind. In order for a person to go kill people in real life, his personality should initially have a tendency towards this, psychologists say.

According to experts, a lot depends on parents and upbringing. If the correct foundations of kindness towards others, love for parents, respect for elders, etc., are laid, then the child will transfer this to any game. Children from disadvantaged families are known for their cruelty both in computer games and in simple yard games. With the right values ​​embedded in the head, the child will not even begin to play bloody games, because you taught him compassion and that pain is bad. Always play games with your child together at first. This will help you understand the essence of the proposed product; in addition, you should never give a game to a child just to get rid of it. This always leads to tragedy and disrespect.

Recent research by scientists in the USA showed that playing violent video games does not necessarily make a child aggressive. In the American scientific journal “Journal of Youth and Adolescence” in August 2013, the work of two researchers from Stenson University was published, which states that violent computer games not only do not make children more aggressive, but, on the contrary, can help children suffering from the syndrome. attention deficit, lose aggression and calm down somewhat.

Researchers Ferguson and Olson observed 377 “difficult” children. All of them had attention deficit disorder and depression. Middle age teenagers, both boys and girls, were 13 years old. As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that children became less aggressive after playing and their behavior was not as defiant as before.

As the article says, looking for a relationship between crimes committed by teenagers and the computer games they play is not entirely correct. The authors of the study call it a coincidence that a large number of young criminals played violent games, explaining that today in similar games Almost all teenagers who own a computer play at least from time to time.

How to wean a teenager off the computer?

Be that as it may, excessive passion for games poses a risk to the health and psyche of a teenager.

One of the “gamers” says:

« I play games with early childhood. The first was WarCraft II, I was about 6 years old, and then almost all new products passed through my eyes and hands. I never particularly liked bloody games, it was just disgusting. But you can easily play. You sit at the “box” for several hours and even the real world begins to be perceived as somehow strange... Fortunately, I can control this, but I understand how this happens in guys with a weaker psyche, how these seemingly causeless antics occur. So games have an impact on our mind. It is important, as with everything, to know your norm.».

Here are some simple tips for parents of young gamers:

• Do not, under any circumstances, prohibit your child from playing on the computer under the threat of punishment. This will have the opposite effect, and he will leave home and disappear somewhere in search of the coveted Internet connection.
• Try to talk openly with your teenager and talk about your concerns about his health and development. Talk on equal terms, like an adult with an adult, not prohibiting, but talking about more interesting things in life.
• become a friend to your child, spend more time together, go where you find it interesting together.
• give your child a membership to a fitness club, but don’t insist on visiting, just push, saying: “since the money has been paid, maybe you can at least go to trial training?”
• If a teenager spends most of his time at the computer, neglecting his studies, has become aggressive and irritable, and does not respond to comments, seek help from a psychologist. Perhaps we are talking about a serious addiction that cannot be removed with persuasion. Together with a specialist, you will overcome this difficult period in the life of a teenager.

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What is this blog about:

After the announcement of the game Hatred, the Internet was overwhelmed by a wave of panic among moralists from all over the world: “Just imagine that a child who played this game would want to kill someone in real life, to experience the pleasure that he experienced in the game, killing innocent people.” , - this is exactly the speech of the average moralist-moralophagist. And since most of them lack critical thinking, the absence of which allows them to judge what they do not understand - I want to dot all the i’s by explaining how and why violent games (including such realistic ones) do not harm the human psyche, but even help in the difficult journey of life.

By training I am not a psychologist, but a mathematician. But it just so happens that I am a mathematician who really likes to bury himself in books on psychology, analyzing the material presented in them, primarily from the point of view of a harmonious mathematical system, and considering human personality as a complex reaction mechanism. This approach forces you to think critically about any material, excluding those ideas that often contradict themselves, or in the presentation of which it is clearly clear that the cause is adjusted to the effect (an example of such adjustment is very well illustrated by accusations of computer games for cruelty in reality).

Why do we play computer games

The first and most obvious reason is that games bring us relaxation, relaxation and pleasure. Any gamer will confirm this to you.
Even competitive discipline games like LoL or Dota. But since this topic is controversial (in the absence of any sign of violence such as blood (I’ll explain why later)), let’s focus on single-player games and MMOs for now, without touching competitive discipline games.
Now let's go by words:
Discharge.
Rest.
Pleasure.
Does anyone see a desire to kill here, no? And I don't see.
Now let's look at this from a psychologist's perspective:
In psychology there is such a term - “escapism”.
In order not to copy the wiki, I’ll explain it in simple terms: this is the desire to somehow escape from the surrounding reality into the world of illusions. Books, music, TV, TV series, films, even football in the yard or your own thoughts - this is all a form of escapism..., and of course - computer games.
The point is very simple: reality loves to bend over and dominate our anus, bodies and souls. And of course, each of us wants to run away, at least for a second to forget about existing problems that require solutions, about things that need to be done, but don’t want to do, and about life in which we need to somehow survive and in an amicable way and live happily ever after.

Why violent computer games are good and not evil.

But games have a huge advantage over other types of escapism - they allow you to splash out aggression not on relatives and close people, but on faceless dummies in some game. And the tougher this happens, the better.
But ! A small caveat - this will be more suitable for men than girls. Due to male hormones, in particular testosterone, aggression is purposefully accumulated in men, while in the minds of girls the craving for sensual and emotional experiences prevails (and they quench them in sims).
Thus, coming home after school, the abstract evil 8th grader Vasya, who was bullied by his classmates all school day, breaks down not at the girl (because he doesn’t have one), and not at his poor parents, but, silently burying himself in the monitor, cuts off heads passers-by and urinates on their bodies in the game Postal 2.
Terrible on the face, kind on the inside (c)

Why this is not entirely true for online competitive disciplines.

Largely because the game ceases to be a game - it is already a competition with a certain focus on winning, and in cases where this fails, the vicious circle of unrealized irritation closes on itself: a person plays a game to relax and relieve stress, but Because of the defeats that come one after another, his irritation only grows.
But this NOT GUILTY games. It's the fault of the competitive and accessible element of this game. The same element that exists in study, work, throughout life, while a person subconsciously continues to compare himself with others, only in the case of games MOBA genre- this element is clearly expressed.

Why will a person never go kill people on the streets JUST because of a game.

I don't deny that the game can be catalyst desire to kill, but only in the case when the person who has everything very very very bad in life, turns to the game as the last refuge, a refuge from real world and... loses the game. And this last failure, in a series of his failures, turns out to be decisive, he grabs a weapon and... you know the rest.
Further: there are a lot of subconscious barriers in our psyche. To kill someone without being prepared in this way requires a very strong shift in the perception of the surrounding world. The game is simply not able to provide such a shift. It does not have similar mechanisms of influence on our perception, because the I-he distinctions that separate us and the character have been and will remain.

As an epilogue.

By blaming games for their children’s troubles, parents try to hide the fact that they have no idea how to raise their child so that neither games nor anything else can damage the perception of the world around them. And if you’re going to look for a problem, then look for it in your environment, in your upbringing, and not in what allows you to rest and relax. You could just as easily blame the sofa for the fact that its hardness is the reason for the murder of another bunch of schoolchildren... and you know... the sofa is much more likely to be to blame for this!
I was with you, with Love.

When looking for a game for your child, it is important to remember that the child’s psyche is not fully formed. A child perceives information much more difficult than a teenager or adult. So let's begin...

1. Wii Sports Club

As with all physical activities, with young children there is always the possibility that your child may harm himself or others, they simply lack coordination. Of course, sport is good, but for children it is dangerous. Their body has not yet formed and cannot control movements. Children can hurt themselves and others.

2. Rainbow Six Siege

Rainbow Six Siege is one of the most dynamic and complex shooters. The main point is played by surveillance cameras and bullet penetration through several walls and surfaces. This game can cause your children to become extremely aggressive.

3. Slender series of games

Games based on horror films are the most popular and have the most special effects. Children perceive game heroes as supernatural beings who prefer to stalk and kidnap children. All these horror games destroy the child’s already unformed psyche.

4. Assassin's Creed series of games

In terms of content, this game is not the most graphically out of place compared to its contemporaries. The game is based on historical events, but it also contains motives of murder and aggression. If the child plays under the supervision of an adult, then it may not harm the psychological health of your child.

5. Hitman series

Game of the murder simulator series. Perhaps this game is the most dangerous for your child - the main task is to beat or kill people. You can create the image of your character yourself, down to the accessories.

Prologue

We welcome all “maniacs”, “psychopaths” and other users of the shinobi-master-games portal.

This time we decided to explore the topic of violence in video games and created our own list.

Let's face it, violence in games has long been an open secret, and all those claims that violent video games make players more "unbalanced" have been refuted by scientists. Of course, there are players who take things too seriously game world, but this, it seems to us, is already a matter of the psyche.

Sometimes, violent games are simply necessary to relax, because you can always release your anger on some zombie, you must admit, this is much better than taking it out on someone else.

In this article, we revealed our own opinion and created a list TOP 13 most violent video games. As always, we emphasize that your opinion may differ from ours, and you can post all your comments and suggestions in the comments.

I would also like to note that we tried not to include in this list games where you can brutally deal with some evil monsters or zombies since you don’t feel so sorry for them (at least for us).

And so, we present to your attention TOP 13 most violent video games.

Let's go!

Shank 2 - No. 13

Our top game opens with the title (2012).

At the moment, there is also the first part of the game, which was released in 2010, but since we select only the most brutal, and the second part is exactly that, we will talk about it.

A game in which you play as a character named Schenk.

Schenk used to work for the mafia where he killed people who interfered with the mafia syndicate.
Schenk quits this job, but his past does not allow him to get involved in murder so easily.
He always gets into troubles that, like a magnet, are attracted to him.
Schenk's loved ones are in danger, they are kidnapped, and all he can do is do what he knows best.

If the first part of the game was not so cruel, then the second part raised this bar.

To reach his target, Schenk uses different types weapons starting from ordinary sharpening and ending with firearms.
Using a machete, he simply chops up his opponents, and when using a chainsaw, his enemies become simply pitiful. Whatever Schenk does to his enemies, he cuts off their limbs, rips open their belly, sets them on fire with a Molotov cocktail, blows out their heads with a shotgun so that their enemies’ eyes literally fly out of their sockets.
The developers were most successful in the scenes where Schenk finishes off the Bosses with various very brutal techniques.

A large number of weapons and techniques that can be combined, increasing the number of combos, will not make a true connoisseur of games of this genre get bored.

Bloody and brutal 2D Action great game, which deserves a higher place, but because of its cartoonishness, so to speak, we decided to place it in the thirteenth position.

13th place.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - #12

In twelfth place we have a game called (2015).

Just like Shank 2, this game has two parts and, as you already understood, we will talk about the second.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number- 2D Action with a top view.

If in the game Shank 2 it seemed to you that there was not enough blood and cruelty, then in the game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number There is enough of this goodness, blood flows like a river here. Despite the two-dimensional graphics in a retro style, the developers managed to convey an atmosphere of violence and cruelty.

From the very beginning of the game you have no weapons other than your fists. You break into the building and after a couple of blows you receive the long-awaited gunshot. Having received a weapon, you begin to kill everyone who gets in your way. Each shot at the enemy brings a sea of ​​​​blood, the enemies' guts are turned out, their heads explode, and their bones crumble. All that remains after you is a pile of corpses and a difficult day at work for the cleaning lady - (ka). There are human remains bleeding everywhere.

Despite the cubic graphics, the game is so violent that it was banned in Australia. The reason for the ban was an episode during which, main character breaks into a building, kills several enemies, after which he finds a woman and wounds her, she falls to the bloody floor, where the character rapes the victim.
This episode so outraged Australian critics that they gave the game an RC (Refused Classification) rating - refusal. The game was banned for sale in Australia, considered too violent. This episode could be seen in the demo version of the game, but after a scandal in the press, the developers had to remove this moment.

Although, apparently, this scandal has become a good advertisement for the project.

The game received a good rating and was liked by the majority of players.

It is also worth noting that the game is not censored.

Rivers of blood and no chance for error - Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, 12th place.

Chiller - №11

In eleventh position we have the game (1986).

This is an arcade game released in 1986 for gaming.

The game can be played by one or two players (in turns).
The player stood opposite slot machine with a light gun and shoots at specified targets.

It reminds me only here the weapon is mounted opposite the monitor on a special stand.

The events of the game take place in a Gothic medieval castle, where you act as a tormentor, your task is to score as many points as possible in a certain amount of time.
Points are given for bullying defenseless victims; the more pain and death, the more points.

The victim is completely defenseless and can rarely move; in most cases, your target is tied to some kind of torture device. There are also second-rate goals in the game that you can also mock.
The player must figure out how he can quickly kill his victim. Can be found quick way, activating some kind of torture device or slowly skinning the poor fellow until she dies.

Despite the year 1986 and the pixel graphics, the game turned out to be all cruel, although the developers said that you are not torturing people, but monsters, similar to people, who were brought back to life by an evil force.
The game is accompanied by dark music and the screams of the victims you are mocking.
Oddly enough, the game has a plot, you must protect the city from a dark force that is gathering an army of the living dead. To do this you must find and destroy all 8 talismans hidden on various levels.

Although it remains unclear, if these are not people, but dead people possessed by an evil spirit, then how can you kill the already dead, and why are they tied to instruments of torture?

Most likely, with the help storyline the developers wanted to somehow justify the senseless cruelty by giving the player some kind of justification (I’m a hero, I’m torturing them to save my world).

Due to its increased cruelty, the game did not sell well in the United States; players did not encourage the use of instruments of torture and increased cruelty to defenseless victims.

In 1990, the game was released for 8-bit consoles.

It’s hard to believe that such a cruel game could have been created in 1986; we simply cannot help but place it in our top.

A retro game from the distant past - 11th place.

The Punisher - #10

In 10th place is the game (2005).

So we finally got to the first brutal 3D game.

Game from MARVEL universe in which you play as a character named Frank Castle.

Frank Castle served in Marine Corps and after service he became an FBI agent where he worked undercover.
He was a good family man, but the mafiosi brutally killed his family, destroying the meaning of Frank's life.
Frank found a new meaning for himself - revenge, he called himself a punisher () devoting himself to the war with underworld. Frank became cruel and merciless, he vowed to fight the villains until the end of his days and protect civilians at all costs.

The game is full of cruel techniques, you simply burst into some territory and begin to “punish” everyone who gets in your way. The game has quite a variety of brutal techniques and captures, but sometimes you need to get some information from a criminal and here the interrogation mode comes to your aid.

You catch the bandit you need and begin to interrogate him using very cruel and painful methods. To obtain information, you can put a gun on the victim, beat his face on the floor, use strangulation, or simply beat him with his fists, but sometimes the main character can use various improvised means for interrogation. Circular saws, aquariums with electric eels, washbasins, electric chairs, various machines, etc. are used.

In order for the enemy to split, you need to keep him in fear for a certain period of time, but the player does not always manage to successfully interrogate, press the wrong key at the right time and the victim will die prematurely, without giving you the necessary information.

If we decided to display the entire list of brutal interrogations, the list would be quite impressive.

In the game you can also dismember enemies into pieces, which only adds cruelty to the atmosphere of the game.
Wherever the Punisher goes, all that remains after him is a sea of ​​blood and a pile of corpses.

Excellent Action with elements of violence and cruelty was to my liking, a large number gamers who still sometimes play this game.

The Punisher and his interrogation regime - 10th place.

Postal III - №9

Our game took ninth position Postal III (2011).

From the very beginning, I would like to note that in the game you can choose the path of a savior hero or become a cruel and heartless killer. As you already understand, we are interested in the second option, and we will talk about it.

We will not talk about the failure of the project, and that the previous parts of the game were better, we are discussing cruelty here, and in Postal III there is plenty of it.
If in previous games on this list the player was limited in his actions and capabilities, then in Postal III The player has almost complete freedom of action. Although from the very beginning the game could only be played strictly according to the plot, the developers released a patch that freed players from the plot line, giving them the opportunity to freely roam around the city and brutally kill city residents.

The game is full of cruelty and violence not only towards the residents of the town of Katharsis but also towards the animals that live there. But the vow is in order.

In the game Postal III you can: urinate on passersby, pour gasoline on residents and set them on fire, chop everyone with a machete, shovel, etc. Also in the game there are firearms (machine guns, machine guns, shotguns...) with which you can shoot off limbs or completely kill the victim, which is worth a vacuum cleaner that collects various muck from the ground, and then throws it at passers-by making them “feel” feeling bad."

It is worth noting that thanks to Source engine(from Valve) the damage system is not poorly implemented in the game. If you played Left 4 Dead (2) then it’s practically the same here.

But the Dude feels the most cruelty towards our smaller brothers.
You can: throw at cats, use a cat with its butt on the barrel of a machine gun, use a badger as a chainsaw, in general, apparently, the developers do not like animals.

The game is full of violence and lewd acts, and if the player decides to turn the city into a bloody massacre, then Postal III he will succeed. Shots from firearms turn people into a bloody pulp, and the abnormal use of animals only adds to the cruelty of the game.

Postal III, a failure but cruel - 9th place.

F.E.A.R. - No. 8

The game is in eighth place F.E.A.R. (2005).

There is a whole series of games F.E.A.R. but since we consider the first part the best, bloody and cruel, we will talk about it.

In the game F.E.A.R. Our attention was attracted not because it was not the main character, but rather the opposite, Alma Wade, one of the main antagonists in the game, who has paranormal and telepathic abilities and who does not spare anyone except the main character.

Biography of Alma Wade:

Alma was an ordinary girl until, at the age of 3, she became a victim of an experiment in the Paragon project led by her father.

For 2 years the poor girl suffered from cruel experiments and when she turned 5 years old she decided to fail the tests in order to be released. But when this method did not produce results, Alma set fire to the laboratory and, with the help of psychokinetic abilities, drove some scientists to madness. To stop this, scientists put Alma into a coma where she remained for 19 years.

During her entire stay in a coma, the girl was fertilized; she was injected with specially selected DNA, which also contained the DNA of her natural father.

She gave birth to two sons at 15 and 16 years old.

While in a coma, Alma establishes a telepathic connection with her second son, Pakstan Fettel.

The entire time she was in a coma, she was in a special sarcophagus, where she did not see the living world for many years. Alma wants to be free.
She orders her ten-year-old son Fettel to free her, he kills several scientists and when her father finds out that she is involved, he decides to turn off Alma's life support system. 6 days after this, Alma dies, she was 26 years old.

You can also watch a short cinematic video of the dedication to Alma. (Russian subtitles)

Her physical body died, but not her soul; Alma was able to exist without a body. The only thing she wanted was to take revenge on everyone for her lost childhood and cruel behavior towards her. She began to take revenge, killing everyone who stood in her way.

Alma - a little girl with long dark hair dressed in a red dress at first glance looks quite harmless, but this is only at first glance. She is heartless and cruel, human life means nothing to her.

Alma can turn anyone into a bloody substance, or worse, drive her victim to complete madness. With the help of paranormal powers, Alma can twist bones just by looking at the poor fellow, throw the victim against the walls until he bleeds, or skin him alive, leaving only a skeleton. Alma can also create otherworldly worlds and control human consciousness. Its possibilities are almost limitless,

Alma is full of cruelty and hatred; she does not know what the words of love and compassion mean because she herself has never experienced these feelings.

She is already coming to you, Alma - 8th place.

The Darkness 2 - No. 7

Game in seventh place The Darkness II (2012).

In the game The Darkness II You play as a character named Jackie Estacado - a professional hitman, a member of a mafia syndicate and the owner of an ancient and brutal force of chaos called The Darkness.

Darkness gives the main character supernatural powers, incredible vitality, endurance and regeneration.

All that Darkness requires is the soul of the host and the hearts of people for evolution.

The only thing that can stop the dark force is light. Darkness can only exist in dark places. Light does not kill Darkness, but simply deactivates it, turning it into dust. As soon as the main character enters a dark place again, the Darkness will return to its owner.

Anyone who decides to speak out against the Darkness, without a source of light, will face a cruel and painful death.

Jackie received this superpower as an inheritance. Even during the First World War, his great-grandfather Anthony Estacado entered into an agreement with an ancient power, which indicated that the entire Estacado family would be damned forever.
Darkness is transmitted only to male members of the seven from father to son and manifests itself when the owner turns 21 years old.
The bearer of power cannot simply get rid of it, even if he commits suicide. Darkness will resurrect the owner, only a special artifact can extract it.

Throughout the game, Jackie learns to control the Darkness and not let it consume her soul.

In the game The Darkness II The darkness looks like bloodthirsty toothed snakes carrying out the will of their master. The owner gains protection from bullets, the ability to summon a deadly black hole, the ability to lift heavy objects and throw them with great force, etc.

Also, along with deadly snakes, the main character receives an evil minion as an assistant who will help you overcome obstacles.

In the game The Darkness II You will find many torn, holed and decapitated enemies who will simply choke with blood before your eyes. The darkness will mercilessly deal with everyone who gets in your way.

Darkness is all around us The Darkness II, 7th place.

Lucius II: The Prophecy - #6

In the mysterious sixth place we have the game Lucius II: The Prophecy (2015).

Game Lucius II: The Prophecy is a continuation of the first part where you play as a character named Lucius.

Lucius, a very harmless boy at first glance, is actually the son of Lucifer himself.

Before the events in the game Lucius II: The Prophecy Lucius lived in a mansion with a very wealthy family, he played, had fun, and no one suspected that this kid would become a cruel killer. When Lucius was 6 years old, he received superpowers which included telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and the ability to bend other people to his will. The poor family had no idea that they had raised the real heir of the devil.

He survived after brutally murdering his entire family and burning down the estate, an ideal murder because no one would suspect a little six-year-old boy. After the events of the first part, Lucius ends up in a psychiatric hospital, where he continues to brutally deal with his victims. His goal is to get to the child, with the help of which he can rule the whole world.

Lucius II: The Prophecy reminds me of something Hitman game only everything is accompanied by superpowers and more brutal murders. And if you look closely, the game Lucius This is an exact copy of the movie The Omen.

Playing as a little Satan, you must secretly kill as many people as possible without catching the eye of random witnesses.

Daddy took away Lucius' powers, so you must gradually regain your power as you progress through the story.

To kill as many living creatures as possible you will have to combine your superpowers with various dangerous objects.

You can kill people by forcing them to do things that they would never do if they were in an adequate state. At your disposal are more than 100 test subjects and a huge variety of objects and places that you can use at your discretion.

Although the second part did not stand out too much in the plot, and the gameplay was not very successful, but still in Lucius II: The Prophecy You can roam around, a huge hospital and a small world of discovery allow you to carry out many brutal murders.

Lucius II: The Prophecy- mystical 6th place.

Saw 2: Flesh and Blood - #5

In 5th place of violent video games, we have a project called Saw 2: Flash and Blood (2010).

Saw 2: Flesh and Blood is a game based on the cult horror film Saw.

Game events Saw 2 are a continuation of Saw: The Video Game (2009), where you will find even more deadly traps and exhausted.

Plot Saw 2: Flesh and Blood covers the events of the second and third parts of the film where you play as the son of detective Tapp Michael who, while investigating the death of his father, falls into the clutches of Jigsaw.

In the game Saw 2: Flesh and Blood Our attention was attracted not by the plot or the main character, but by the cruel traps of the Constructor, which became even more ingenious and terrible.

Playing as the main character, you must save yourself and other people caught in deadly traps.

Almost every designer trap is equipped with a timer that will go off after a certain time after activation; your task is to find a way to deactivate the deadly mechanism. If you do not have time to find a way to get rid of the dangerous device, the trap is triggered and the victim dies a very cruel death.

It's hard for us to describe how complex and at the same time deadly Jigsaw's traps are, but one thing is for sure, they are incredibly cruel and painful. The designer skillfully manipulates people, checking what lengths they will go to in order to save their own or someone else’s life.

You will meet with the consciousness of a real psychopathic engineer who will stop at nothing to teach you to value life (or kill you).

Deadly mechanisms, violence, blood and cruelty seasoned with adrenaline, that's what awaits you in the game Saw 2: Flesh and Blood.

Make a choice or die Saw 2: Flesh and Blood, 5th place.

Manhunt 2 - #4

We've almost reached the top three, but before that we'd like to show you the game that took 4th place (2007).

Like some previous nominees of our top, the game is a continuation of the first part, which was released in 2003 ( Manhunt).

A little background:

You play as a character named Daniel Lamb, a former scientist who worked on a project called Project Pickman. He put all the tests on himself, as a result of which he developed a split personality. Now two people live in it, one is the same scientist Daniel Lamb, and the second is the evil and cruel Leo Casper, whom he sees as a non-existent friend.

The events of the game take place in a psychiatric hospital, where you ended up after a disaster. After staying there for 6 years, an opportunity comes your way to escape. During a storm, the power goes out, causing the hospital doors to open. All the patients of the mental hospital, taking advantage of the moment, are freed from their rooms and start a riot. You free yourself, and under the strict guidance of your dark half, you begin to brutally kill everyone who interferes with you.

You sneak up on your intended target and use various weapons and methods of brutally dealing with your victims.

Reminds me very much Splinter game Cell and Hitman, since here, like them, there is a lot of stealth, killing a victim by sneaking up on him from behind is much more effective than going into the open.

While playing, you are enveloped in an atmosphere of chaos and cruelty that does not leave the player for a minute, and a peculiar interesting and unusual plot only adds advantages to the game.

A very bloody and heartless execution system (much like in game The Punisher) makes this game even more bloodthirsty and cruel.

It's hard for us to describe how brutal the techniques are in this game, but we'll just say it's a must see. Violence, blood and cruelty, that's how we would describe it.

4th place.

God of War III - #3

So we finally got to the top three most violent video games according to the site.

We placed the game in the third bronze position God of War III (2010).

Before talking about this project, I would like to note that this is the first game on our list that directed its cruelty not towards people, but towards the gods.
From the very beginning, we mentioned that we tried not to include in this list games whose cruelty is directed towards monsters, zombies and other monsters, since the player does not feel so sorry for them, because you must agree, it is one thing to kill evil creatures, and another to kill your own kind. But keyword we “tried” here, we just couldn’t ignore a series of games God of War where cruelty and violence simply permeate the game.

So about God of War III.

As you already understood, God of War III is the third part of the game series God of War.

In the game God of War III you play as the powerful and vengeful Kratos, who served the gods for a long time until they betrayed him. God Ares clouded his mind Kratos, who is in a fit of anger killed his own family. Kratos vowed to take revenge on all of Olympus for his lost happiness, the goal of his life became revenge, he lost everything human, filling himself with anger and cruelty.

In the third part, Kratos' goal is to kill Zeus, but to do this he will have to climb Olympus and crush the remaining gods.

He uses the Blades of Chaos as his standard weapon - two short, wide blades with sharp, serrated blades and chained hilts for long-range attacks.

For the main character, it doesn’t matter how strong the enemy is, be it an ordinary monster or a giant god, Kratos will brutally deal with every opponent.

In the game God of War III What attracted us most was the beautiful and at the same time incredibly brutal combat system. You can’t just describe how cool and brutal everything looks, you have to see it for yourself. The huge number of unique blows and deadly finishing moves is simply stunning in its cruelty.

In general, watch the video and you will understand everything yourself; it is difficult for us to convey this.

God of War III- honorable 3rd place.

Hatred - №2

There is just a little bit left, and before introducing you to the leader of our top, we would like to show you another game, which in our opinion deserves 2nd place among violent video games (2015).

This is an arcane shooter where you play as an unknown cruel and heartless maniac in a leather jacket with long black hair. The main “hero” hates the world around him, his heart is filled with anger and disgust for people, all he wants is to brutally kill as many as possible civilians and law enforcement officers.

From the very beginning of the game, after a short introductory video, armed with a machine gun, a knife and grenades, you leave your shelter and begin to kill absolutely everyone who gets in your way.

Now we will explain why we chose the game.

The fact is that in the rest of the games in our top, the player kills with some meaning either bad guys or good ones, but in the game the murders occur absolutely without justification and cruelty. People just live peaceful life, when suddenly, out of the blue, a psychopath bursts in and begins to shoot absolutely everyone who falls under the hot hand. He does not spare men or women; even the victim’s belittling for mercy will not stop him.

Hatred - Trailer No. 1 (Russian voice acting)

Hatred - Trailer No. 2 (Russian voice acting)

From the very beginning of the game, cruelty reigns absolutely everywhere our “hero” goes; all that remains after him are the bloody bodies of his victims.

Not only is the game already cruel in itself, but the developers have also added a special execution mode, where the main “hero” kills his victim with incredible cruelty.

The game is so full of gratuitous violence and cruelty that when the game appeared on Steam Greenlight in 2014, Valve employees removed it due to excessive cruelty towards people (However, two days later the game was returned back). This project became the second game in history to receive a maximum age rating (ESRB) only for violent scenes.

One can only guess in how many countries around the world the game will be banned.

No mercy, 2nd place.

P.S. To be honest, we doubted for a long time which place to give, first or second. The game is just incredibly cruel.

Mortal Kombat X - #1

Well, finally we have reached the golden place where our game (2015) is number one.

From the very beginning of the series Mortal Kombat The game was distinguished by increased cruelty not only in battles but also in a special finishing move called Fatality.

Even the very first Mortal Kombat(1992) for arcade machines shocked players with the now so famous system of bloody finishing moves. Many years passed, the battles and finishing system became more and more cruel and bloody, and in 2015 a new one was released, which simply shocked the players with the most severe Fatalities.

Fatality is an action that a player uses at the end of the final round against his already defeated opponent.

This one looks like this: The victim stands unconscious, the winner approaches her and after the commentator’s phrase “Finish Him!!” or “Finish Her!!” performs an incredibly brutal finishing move.

Each fighter has his own unique Fatality. In order to perform a brutal finishing move, you need to quickly press the necessary buttons at a certain time at the appropriate distance. In general, this does not sound easy, and it will be quite difficult for an inexperienced player to perform such a technique.

Mortal Kombat X Official Trailer

Legendary fighting game with a large list of characters and beautiful realistic graphics further highlights the incredibly spectacular and brutal Fatalities.

Sometimes, looking at fighters’ finishing techniques, you begin to wonder how it was possible to come up with such brutal finishing moves?

One way or another, we believe that brutal and cruel deserves first place in our top of the most violent video games.

Fatality!

Conclusion

Our next top has come to an end. Now you know what games you can and cannot play.

We've included a poll at the end of the article, so you can vote for which game you think is the most brutal. Better yet, vote and leave your comments, perhaps you know some other cruel games that are not included in our top. In general, write reviews, suggestions, comments, etc., we will be interested to know your opinion.

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