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Family Media Names Ten Most Violent Video Games

By: News Editor
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Source: FamilyMediaGuide.com

Family Media Guide has prepared a list of the Top 10 Most Violent Video Games released so far this year. Utilizing a proprietary audit process, the company's video game analysts capture and document instances of profanity, sex, violence, and substance abuse using a database-driven technology employing approximately 4000 rules and algorithms governing millions of potential rule combinations.


The data is then analyzed to generate a rating FMG considers "objective" and "superior" to the existing ESRB (Electronic Software Ratings Board) industry association-based review approach.


Here is their list. The games are listed 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.


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Comments/Responses
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• Nov 29, 2005, 04:50am •
Oh cry me a fucking river...

• Nov 29, 2005, 06:26am •
Please, so what? If I hear that games like this are the reason for Columbine or kids going postal, I'm going to go "postal!" How about doing a little more parenting and less complaining/finger pointing.

• Nov 29, 2005, 08:13am •
Oh cry me a fucking river...

LMFAO, you are hilarious !!! LOL

• Nov 29, 2005, 09:10am •
After those it just makes me want to go buy every game on this list. I had no idea Narc was that cool.

• Nov 29, 2005, 09:16am •
I have either played most of these games or I am going to! This is a great list! Thanks Family Media Guide!

• Nov 29, 2005, 09:42am •
There's just something creepy about a bunch of polyester wearing prudes huddled around a television screen watching video games (who's playing it as they watch?) picking out details that they find offensive. I wonder if anyone of them broke the Hot Coffee mod for GTA:SA?

• Nov 29, 2005, 10:59am •
hassanf1 you don't get out much do you? ;)

• Nov 29, 2005, 11:02am •
They forgot Spiceworld. Talk about a game that would drive someone to commit murder...

• Nov 29, 2005, 01:16pm •
As a woman I find this quite dismaying.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Player recovers his health by visiting prostitutes then recovers funds by beating them to death and taking their money.

What sort of entertainment is this??? Would it be quite so funny if there were a game where White Supremisists characters gained points and cool gadgets by beating up and killing minorities? Or how about one where female characters savagely victimized young men?

KaraS

• Nov 29, 2005, 01:37pm •
Karas, you need to relax a little. For one thing, that description couldn't be any more innaccurate. You get money by doing odd jobs for gangs and seedy businessmen, and you recover your health by going home and crashing for the night.

How about doing some physical research yourself instead of going by the words of a bunch of old people who are digging for ANY speck of "offensive" material in order to fuel their preposterous arguments that "games are the Devil!"

Then again, if you're so "offended" by it, why not avoid it yourself, and let those who DON'T get offended by every little iddy-bitty thing in the world have fun with them. They're games.

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