Gore Games - Your Favorites

I was going to make a thread exclusively for Shadow of Rome, but I figure there's more mileage to be gotten from a more comprehensive one.

What are your picks on best gory games?

Though no longer the measuring stick it once was, Mortal Kombat is a staple of the genre and so are a number of FPS's.

Personally, I really enjoyed the PS2 game of Shadow of Rome. It was a very fun 3D action game. The dismembering aspect of the game was definitely the "make or break" aspect of the game and it definitely made it. The sneaking portions were definitely bad, but they weren't as difficult as reviews made it out to be.

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Spartan: Total Warrior has its moments, like when you use a spear to behead a dozen Roman soldiers.
but Doom's always is my favorite. Beserk pack + weak humans = a very neat pile of gore.

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Even though it was a shoddy FPS, it was neat for a bit, the hit detection/gore system for Soldier of Fortune 2, G.H.O.U.L. I think it was. Who cares about ragdoll physics when you have realistic gore?

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I second the recommendation for DOOM. It's amazing when you play a level with hundreds of enemies in one place, and you blow them all into hamburger in a matter of seconds.

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Originally Posted by IGN Review

Although I love fighting games like Tekken 3 and Tobal 2, they're too clean. Where are the compound fractures? The decaptitations? The sausage-like entrails rupturing from an abdomen? Let's face it, when it comes to bloody, limb-wrenching, stomach-churning violence, the Americans can do it better than anybody else.

Unfortunately, that sort of action just hasn't been done well since the Mortal Kombat games, and the genre's been stagnating since. Until ThrillKill, from Virgin Interactive. When it arrives this October, it will be far and away the most disturbing fighting game to keep you awake at night.

As fighting games go, the characters are something of a mix between Mace: The Dark Age and ASC's Sanitarium. Imagine the Rocky Horror Picture Show gone bad, and you've got an idea who you're going to play in ThrillKill. Among the cast are such luminaries as a French maid, a man in a straitjacket, Siamese twins connected waist to waist, and a butcher who enjoys a taste of human flesh along with his beef. Basically, you're in Hell, and you're fighting everybody else to get out, and believe me, when you're stuck with this crew, you really want out.

Gameplay is very different from the standard fighting game. First of all, it's more of a party game in the sense that four people can play the game at the same time. Once the match begins, you'll be punching and kicking, but there's no dmage. Instead, you've got this powerup meter that increases every time you punch, kick, or combo someone. Once that meter's filled, that player can now kill for a short period of time. They get a really impressive powerup, then go after another player. This is the cool part. When the other three players are scrambling to get away from the killer, they have a special move where they can throw an unlucky opponent into the path of the killer player. Should a character get killed, you're treated to a very, very gruesome fatality. For example, the maid can grab a person's head and slice it off, at which point the body spurts blood and the head goes flying, also gushing a bright red fountain. Then it begins again, with one less character. The last kill gets an extra special death animation, called the ThrillKill and that's where the game gets its name.

If you don't know what this game is, imagine a mix of Super Smash Bros and Mortal Kombat. It was cancelled because of the amount of gore and explicit content, but it somehow became leaked and is actually not a bad game.

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I fucking loved Thrill Kill. They actually re-packaged it and made it into an extremely competent Wu-Tang Clan fighting game.

Favorite gore game though... Man that's tough. Off the top of my head, the first game that comes up is Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage for Dreamcast. That game blew me away.

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Anyone here ever play Night Trap for 3DO? I heard that was a monster of a game. Not sure how gory it was though...

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Going to have to go with Bloodrayne. You could slice up bad guys into chunks of bones and flesh in slow motion. It definitely had as much violence as I like in a game.

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I loved F.E.A.R., which was mostly a gore game. The way you could gib guys with the 20mm cannon, or pin their friggin heads to walls with the HV Penetrator was amazing! Also, the blood effects when you're in pools of blood, like those hallway scenes that come out of nowhere! All in all, the gore really adds to the creepiness of this game...

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Lemmings.


... What? It counts.

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The Punisher. When you did a special interrogation blood/gore was everywhere.

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God of War. Though it's not as gory as some of these other games, it's got some very nice brutaility in it. Plus it's one of the most kick-ass games on PS2! Few things are as satisfying as simply ripping an enemy in half (too bad you don't get experience for it).

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PoP: Warrior within was kind of bloody sometime, I so love to cut the enemy in half in like 4-5 different way XD

and yeah bloodrayne had a lot of gore, especialy the second one, I love the fatality with the bloody shower on rayne ^^ oh and the one that you cut someone in half verticaly and you can see the spinal column(sp?) XD

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Manhunt was fascinatingly macabre at times and the snuff premise was suitably disturbing. Still one of the most atmospheric games I know.
The stealth kills were nasty even at white, while red kills bordered on the fetishistic. Not to mention the mess a pointblank shotgun blast to the face made. The sickle is always everyone's favorite weapon (though I preferred the baseball bat) and while the red kill was suitably nasty (grabbing a guy's head from behind and cutting his gut open), the yellow kill takes the crown for whince inducing. If you haven't played it, Cash sneaks up to a hunter from behind and swings the sickle up into their crotch, before pulling it back horizontally.



I thought Resident Evil 4 was brilliantly macabre, especially the shotgun. Later on in the Mercenaries minigame, Hunk's closerange neck snap and Crauser's arm attack provided further dark hilarity.

I also still remember how dark and freaky the original Prince of Persia felt because of the surreal traps and violence towards the main protagonist. Those cutters still give me the chills, even though it was admittedly fun pushing enemy guards into them or off ledges into pits of spikes.

I personally wasn't too impressed with the damage modeling in Soldier of Fortune 2. The collision detection felt ridiculously random and while apparent attention to detail had been paid to damage on the head, the rest of the body seemed like an after thought. Shooting someone with a pistol in the arm made a hole. Shooting a second time removed the hand. Shooting a third time removed the entire arm. That, and the pool of blood that was left behind when the body disappeared (lol?) looked like molasses instead of blood.

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Mortal Kombat. Don't remember playing any other games that focused on gore though, except maybe Worms.

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Blood was an incredibly good FPS, which was very clearly intended to focus on the violence, and it seems accidentally ended up with great weapon design etc.

Time Killers was a mindless and mediocre fighting game. It's only real draw was that both players were armed, and that you could at any time lop of an opponents limb (or head). You'd be fighting for minutes, or a second, then someone is knocked out, or decapitated. The thing I found most amusing is that if you chopped off their arm, let's say, the left one. Everytime they pressed the left arm button they would kinda, wag their stump and send spurts forward. It's a lasting memory.

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I'd go with MANHUNT. It sometimes became a bit repetitive, but it's quite an interesting and sadistic tale.

The last boss fight is probably one of the most traumatizing and scary ones I've ever played. You can actually see his little penis wiggling. O_o

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Of course it's God of War. It's bloody, it's sadistic, and it's damn well-made. But then again, this is present day, when no one gives a crap about violence anymore.

You gotta go back to the classics for the true masters of the craft. I'm talking Mortal Kombat with the blood (not that sweat they tried to pass off on SNES) and fatalities and Doom with the simple but bloody design. Those were the games you didn't want your parents to know you were playing (well, if they cared).

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http://revolution.ign.com/articles/700/700133p1.html

IGN just put up an article listing their top 10 gore moments. A damn good read! They listed a death in Eternal Champions as number 1. Awesome!

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Would've been cool to have some videos of their choices. Wasn't Eternal Champions some really bad fighting game? I remember renting it for the Genesis.

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I append my answer to add Eternal Champions. That's a damn good selection that had faded into the dark recesses of my memory. Of course, the only thing I remember about it was that it had to do with time travel and there was one stage where you could finish someone off by throwing them into a giant fan.

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I am gonna have to go with RE4, as it's gory and one of my favourite games ever.



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How about Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix? It's still one of the most gory games in my eyes, especially because it's the only game where you can damage each part of the body individually
You gotta love a game where you can dig in heads with a knife

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Originally Posted by sprouticus

I fucking loved Thrill Kill. They actually re-packaged it and made it into an extremely competent Wu-Tang Clan fighting game.

Heh, I thought I was the only one here that knew about the Wu Tang game. Anyways, I thought that was a pretty fun fighting game. Never got my hands on Thrill Kill though...

I think my vote for favorite gore game would have to be F.E.A.R. The weapons were so fun to plau around with, and each had a gruesome effect on the enemy. Not to mention that freaky little girl who had that weird power to dissolve the flesh right off the bones of people.

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Postal 2, while not a good game by most standards, was fun for getting out aggressions. There's really nothing like inducing vomiting by urinating on an innocent bystander, then smashing their head with a shovel until it flies off, with vomit (and blood) still spraying out of their neck.

Painkiller too, with the ability to stake people to walls and pretty much paint a room red with the spinning fan weapon. Nice thing is that individual gibs still bleed. So you can use a console command to set gibs to never vanish, stake someone to a wall, and then shred them for minutes on end. There's a long stairway in one of the later levels (next to a room with a huge glass ceiling...the city, I think) wherein HORDES of enemies assault you from above and below. Using the stakegun, just pin them all to the wall (or ceiling by their heads), and then shred 'em with the painkiller weapon. Setting decals to stay will keep the blood around as long as you want too (hope you have lots of RAM though). Then you go to one end of the hallway, set gibs and decals to disappear, and watch a real-time Silent Hill otherworld-to-normal-world transition as the body parts and blood slowly fade away.

Yes, I have too much time on my hands.

And yes, I'm a twisted bastard.

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Originally Posted by sprouticus

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/700/700133p1.html

IGN just put up an article listing their top 10 gore moments. A damn good read! They listed a death in Eternal Champions as number 1. Awesome!

The Vamp/Seal Team scene in MGS2 is blooder and much more gore filled than MK2 ever was.

IGN failes again. :doh:

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