Gore Games - Your Favorites

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.