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2005's 10 Most Violent Games 59

Posted by Zonk from the violent-and-good dept.
Andy writes "The family media guide has released a statement detailing the 10 most violent videogames of 2005." Gamasutra reports: "Ironically, the games that the Family Media Guide singles out include some of the ESRB M-rated titles (not buyable by those under the age of 17) which have been most critically acclaimed so far this year, including Capcom's Resident Evil 4 (of which the site notes: 'it's possible to find the corpse of a woman pinned up on a wall -- by a pitchfork through her face' ..."
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2005's 10 Most Violent Games

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  • A.K.A. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Golias ( 176380 ) on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @02:31PM (#14140207)
    The Family Media Guide 10 Most Violent Games of 2005.

    Also Known as "My Amazon Wish List."

  • The list (Score:4, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @02:37PM (#14140256)
    http://www.familymediaguide.com/features/EditorsPi cks/ViolenceUnderTheTree.html [familymediaguide.com]

    Here is the list, with the games ranked in no particular order:

    2005's TOP 10 ULTRA-VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES

    - Resident Evil 4 - Player is a Special Forces agent sent to recover the President's kidnapped daughter. During the first minutes of play, it's possible to find the corpse of a woman pinned up on a wall -- by a pitchfork through her face.

    - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Player is a young man working with gangs to gain respect. His mission includes murder, theft, and destruction on every imaginable level. Player recovers his health by visiting prostitutes then recovers funds by beating them to death and taking their money. Player can wreak as much havoc as he likes for no reason without progressing through the game's storyline.

    - God of War - Player becomes a ruthless warrior, seeking revenge against the gods who tricked him into murdering his own family. Prisoners are burned alive and player can use "finishing moves" to kill opponents - like tearing a victim in half.

    - Narc - Player can choose between two narcotics agents attempting to take a dangerous drug off the streets and shut down the KRAK cartel while being subject to temptations including drugs and money. To enhance abilities, player takes drugs including pot, Quaaludes, ecstasy, LSD and "Liquid Soul" - which provides the ability to kick enemies' heads off.

    - Killer 7 - Player takes control of seven assassins who must combine skills to defeat a band of suicidal, monstrous terrorists. The game eventually escalates into a global conflict between the U.S. and Japan. Player collects the blood of fallen victims to heal himself and must slit own wrists to spray blood to find hidden passages.

    - The Warriors - Based on a 70's action flick that set new standards for "artistic violence," a street gang battles its way across NYC in an attempt to reach its home turf. Player issues several commands to his gang, including "mayhem," which causes the gang to smash everything in sight.

    - 50 Cent: Bulletproof - Game is loosely based on the gangster lifestyle of rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. Player engages in gangster shootouts and loots the bodies of victims to buy new 50 Cent recordings and music videos.

    - Crime Life: Gang Wars - Player is the leader of a ruthless street gang, spending time fighting, recruiting new gangsters, fighting, looting, and of course, more fighting. Player can roam the streets and fight or kill anyone in sight for no apparent reason.

    - Condemned: Criminal Origins - Player is an FBI serial killer hunter in one of the first titles for the Xbox 360. Game emphasizes the use of melee weapons over firearms, allowing players to use virtually any part of their environment as a weapon. The next generation graphics provide a new level of detail to various injuries, especially "finishing moves.

    - True Crime: New York City - Player is a NYC cop looking for information regarding the mysterious death of a friend. Player can plant evidence on civilians and shake them down to earn extra money.

    • Re:The list (Score:3, Funny)

      by david.given ( 6740 )
      50 Cent: Bulletproof - Game is loosely based on the gangster lifestyle of rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. Player engages in gangster shootouts and loots the bodies of victims to buy new 50 Cent recordings and music videos.

      Dear god. Whichever marketing executive thought this sounded like a good idea for a game really, really needs to cut down on the medication.

    • Re:The list (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Player recovers his health by visiting prostitutes then recovers funds by beating them to death and taking their money.

      Gotta love how these morons harp on at this like it's even mentioned in the game. Like your gang members say "Hit that prostitute man, she'll give you your money back" or something of the sort. These same people never mention driving injured people to hospital in an ambulance, even though the game actively DOES present this information to you. Says more about the people writing these rev
      • That's pretty insightful.
        It would be interesting if there was a fully open-ended city exploration game, where you could move back and forth in a burger joint all day, attend classes at a university, or rent an appartment.
        Now, you could also buy guns, stab people, visit hookers, run people over, and rape people. These actions, along with all the other actions, like flip burger and read book, would be available, and assignable to your controller, through a drop-down menu.

        It'd be interesting to see the crit
        • I agree with you that it would be difficult to cry bloody murder over a game that was that open ended but... I seem to already have that game. It's called 'Real Life', the story goes like this:

            - You are born
            - You grow up
            - You go to school
            - You get your diver's license
            - You get the picture

  • They forgot one... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Toddarooski ( 12363 ) on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @02:37PM (#14140260)
    How about that horrible game where innocent civilians are subjected to a slow toture of being crushed under successively heavier and heavier weights (while enduring some nasuea-inducing motion) until they're shot into the vacuum of space and burned alive in a giant hydrogen explosion?

    Parents, keep your kids away from Katamari Damacy!!

  • misleading summary (Score:4, Informative)

    by Red Flayer ( 890720 ) on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @02:38PM (#14140269) Journal
    "the Family Media Guide singles out include some of the ESRB M-rated titles (not buyable by those under the age of 17)"

    Anyone can buy a game with an M-rating, unless a store chooses to enforce the ESRB system. It's voluntary, not a legal requirement*. Parents need to be aware of this, and not trust stores/government to police what games their children purchase.

    *Yet. May no longer be true in your jurisdiction. Laws pending. Beware the thought police.
  • The Sims (for the masochists) and Online Poker Tables (for me going nuts when i was 2nd overall in 2500 tourney and lost on a high flush! fu**ing fu*ks!)

    ;-)

  • Blah (Score:3, Insightful)

    by spx ( 855431 ) on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @02:44PM (#14140319)
    I really get tired of reading about games that I should not allow my son to purchase (not that he can just yet, hes turning 4 soon but still), if you are a parent and stupid enough to let your child play a game that you even for a moment have to think and sit down and read the box, then I really dont care that your child is outside being evil and trying to blow shit up its your own damn fault. The parents need to mod more and pay attention, I dont need a list to know my son will not be playing anything listed (or how about UT, CS Condition Zero, Call of duty, etc/etc/etc). For someone that is going to buy a game and not read it, your stupid, thee end! Now go get me some of those games.

    • Re:Blah (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I really get tired of reading about games that I should not allow my son to purchase

      I don't know about you but I would rather have them going out of their way and spending their time informing parents of the games that they have a problem with than having them go to a Jack Tompson rally trying to get these games banned. Personally, I would rather have someone disagree with me in public than to make back-room deals to invalidate my opinion.

      • Re:Blah (Score:1)

        by spx ( 855431 )
        I did not invade your opinon, but since your on the subject....Im sure I would disagree with you in public, if you didnt post as an Anonymous Coward. :) If they actually went out of their way, we would not be having this talk now would we? I dont think certain games above should be ban thats a whole nother deal, what Im saying is that my child, will not play a game that I have not personaly played myself. His father is the same way. We both game, and my sons around alot of geeks, you know when you see that

    • Re:Blah (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Shad_the_protector ( 931920 )
      No today, parent are never responsable for their child behaviour. Everyone around it is. Even when your child play a Mature rated cracked game on his moded PS2 it's not the parent fault, it is the publisher. It is the fault of TV program, video game, internet, school, street, friend, but never THE PARENTS. [/sarcasm]
    • I for one would like to see a list of games unsuitable for minors provided they offer specifics on why they deem the game inappropriate. I agree parents do need to stay up to date with their children's activities but I don't see the point in reinventing the wheel if someone else has already carefully looked through the game for things that are inappropriate for kids and even reported on it in a handy dandy list format. If my kid wants to play a game while I'm doing something else, I'd like to know if anyt

      • Re:Blah (Score:1)

        by spx ( 855431 )
        If they had specifics, Im sure alot more people would be less annoyed. I dont see why its such a hassle that you hire someone to play a game, see whats there, and rate it. It just seems that too many are making a mountain out of a mole hill.

  • Interesting difference in censoring method.. (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Lord Bitman ( 95493 ) on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @02:59PM (#14140470)
    (the following uses segments taken from the San Andreas review, but a quick browse through any other review will show the pattern exists elsewhere)

    When listing "Profanity details", some words are not censored, others use "fill-in-the-blank" censoring, while others are viewed as so horrid as to be referred to only by their first letter:

    "F-Word, C-word, A*s, A*shole, Balls, B*stard, B*tch, Christ, C*ck, Crap, C*m, Damn, D*ck, God Damn, Hell, Jesus, N*gger, Piss, Pr*ck, P*ssy, Screw, Sh*t, Tw*t"

    I also note that though not listed in the profanity section, the "sex details" section additionally lists "tits" and "wanking"

    I'm not sure what exactly this means, but I do find it fascinating. Does anyone have enough understanding of how the minds of these people work as to be able to explain this behavior?

    Hmm.. I do wonder if the lameness filter will let those quotes through :)

    • Re:Interesting difference in censoring method.. (Score:4, Funny)

      by Alzheimers ( 467217 ) on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @03:15PM (#14140618)
      When listing "Profanity details", some words are not censored, others use "fill-in-the-blank" censoring, while others are viewed as so horrid as to be referred to only by their first letter:

      ...God Damn, Hell, Jesus...

      Take a moment and savour the delicious irony...
    • "F-Word, C-word, A*s, A*shole, Balls, B*stard, B*tch, Christ, C*ck, Crap, C*m, Damn, D*ck, God Damn, Hell, Jesus, N*gger, Piss, Pr*ck, P*ssy, Screw, Sh*t, Tw*t"

      When I was young we used all of those words, even though our video games didn't say them. I clearly remember using every one of those in the same sentence when my NES got that damn,b*stard,Sh*tty,.... blinking screen thing.
      • is that sig a double-layered joke, or does someone need to hit you? :)
      • lol I never got the blinking screen, but you remember all the times you had to blow the dust outta them damn systems? :D I think many people (pending their enviroment) heard all those words before the games came out, but you know, not everyone grows up to use them. I have an excuse, my dad was a trucker and my mom cursed more than a sailor. :) I still get mad playing CS Condtion Zero and throw afew choice words out there, the best one is fuc*ing argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Were your sentences always alphabetica
        • I just recently ordered a new 72 pin adaptor for my old NES. It arrived not long ago, so I am now going to see if that fixed the old blinky/blow in the box/game problem. It looks quite easy to replace. It was only $3 on ebay...though I suppose I should clean any games before I stick them in the fixed machine.

          Super Mario Brothers 3 never worked for me! And when I finally got it working, some of the images were all blocky and crap. I had a game genie though, and using that seemed to make it so I didn'

  • speaking of violence... (Score:4, Funny)

    by David Nabbit ( 924807 ) on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @03:20PM (#14140664) Journal
    "If you don't watch the violence, you'll never get desensitized to it."

    - Bart [thesimpsons.com]

  • After reading what they had to say about Resident Evil 4 I kinda want to play it now.

    Has this list sold anyone else on one of these games?
  • When scientists finally get down deep into our brains and find the part that evolution put there..
    .... the part that determines if other humans were in need of help or mercy.....
    ...and in modern technology-aided man (maybe more than previous barbaric "civilizations") ...

    .... we could find it was efficiently burnt away to neural ashes long ago. Numbed by suppression (scientifically proven, btw).

    Who is left motivated to notice any pain but their own? Won't even that be suitably ignored by drugs?

    Th

  • I'm sick of seeing unwarranted paranoia about violent media. Violent/graphic media are not inherently evil things, and they alone do not turn a kid bad. It's always bad parents who are to blame for bad kids, period. A bad parent is always more of a danger to society than any video game, movie, or music could ever be.

    What I'd like to see is a published compiled list of bad parents. That way the government would know who to sterilize, and the rest of us would know who to watch out for.

    Instead of a headli
  • How is their system so much better?

    It is more descriptive which is great (there write up that is, their classification is less), but they seem (on a sample of 1) completly in agreement with ESRB.

    Inuyasha: Feudal combat (from heir front page) is:
    Explicitly Violent
    Explicitly Prophane and
    Suggestivly sexual
    No age judgement
    In a system that is unclear except for maybe the red (a logo that involved a stop light might make things more clear, but white being none is still hard to squees into the metaphore).

    ESRB
    Teen
  • Incidents: Cigarette smoking by adults. Themes of kidnapping, terror, and peril. Supernatural themes involving cults, hideous monsters, mutations, and mind control. Urinating.
    Yeah, because thank goodness in real like NO ONE under the age of 18 EVER Urinates...
    • I know. Thank gawd they told me about that. At first, I was going to dimiss this game anyway due to the cigarette smoking. Then I realized it was cigarette smoking *by adults* which is of course just fine. If it wasn't for the urinating, I might have actually bought this one.

      Dear Rampant Parents with Too Much Time,
      If a game comes along that shows a child smoking, please IM me and I will obviously join your march to ban not only video games but any television with the possible exception o

    • Re:Urination (Score:1, Redundant)

      by fwitness ( 195565 )
      I know. Thank gawd they told me about that. At first, I was going to dimiss this game anyway due to the cigarette smoking. Then I realized it was cigarette smoking *by adults* which is of course just fine. If it wasn't for the urinating, I might have actually bought this one.

      Dear Rampant Parents with Too Much Time,
      If a game comes along that shows a child smoking, please IM me and I will obviously join your march to ban not only video games but any television with the possible exception o
  • So, knee-jerk slashdotters. Somebody came up with a list of violent games. Please read the following before I have to read any of your posted ramblings:

    1. The list seems accurate. In other words, they describe the games "as-is", without any editorializing that I can see.

    2. The list is not calling for banning of the games. Every time someone mentions "violent video games", the morons among us get out the Jack Thompson Rant Guide (JTRG) and start typing.

    3. The list is a tool for concerned parents. Part o
    • Props to the parent -- if the purchasing decision is being made by someone not intimately familiar with what the game will contain (i.e. your average parent or holiday giftgiver), then the more easily available information the better. It also helps because people generally have a fairly personal definition of what unacceptable violence is -- most people think stomping Goombas into plates is a bit different than Manhunt, for example, but there are many people who would be willing to accept socially appropri
      • If you can do the latter of that part, let the rest of us know. I dont have any problems gaming with my son when hes older, but right now, he just likes to play ps2 (like need for speed) and crash into things......I dont think I will be teaching him to drive, his dad can do that. lol :) Good post, I'd mod, but I cant. :(
    • Yes, we can read, thank you. And not always does age apply in this factor, I hope your not stating that Im young and naive, because of anything, I quite seriously take my sons welfare into high consideration toward anything in his life, including gaming. Who are you to judge, should we from now own post our age along with our thoughts on /. Are you Mr. /. get off the age kick and try to pay attention here.

      1- the list does not contain many games which others (have read) do think apply to 'violent games',
  • Actually, this site is useful... If you want to know why the video game rating system is in the current crisis it is in:

    The following was excerpted from the NIMF Video Game Report Card:

    Using data generated by PSVratings, a content-based ratings system measuring actual levels of profanity, sex, and violence, we found that games in 2004 were on average more violent, contained more sexual content and had more profane language when compared to games from the late '90s. In the '90s only 16% of the M-rated

  • This is great. now i can search for the most violent sexual and profane games :)

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