Violence i꧅s a staple in all forms of media; from classical literature and Shakespearian plays, to death metal, and horror movies. Video games are no exception, with the majority of video games focusing heavily on violence as a plot device, gameplay mechanic, or, in some cases, as the games sole purpose for existing. Not that there's anything wrong with that. After all, we'd rather it be fictional violence on the screen as opposed to real violence on the streets, right?

With violence being a mainstay of entertainment since, forever, there will obviously be a few examples in each form of media that may have gone a little too far. An extra buck🔜et of blood here, a generous handful of brains there, and more weapons than you can empty a drum clip at. Due to the interactive nature of video games, the extremely violent ones seem to catch a lot of negativity — usually to gamers' delight and to the media's disdain. Regardless of your interpretation of violence and its presence in video games, one thing is for certain, it's not going anywhere anytime soon. With that said, let's hop into the 15 Most Violent Games Ever Made! Those with weak constitutions or who take offense with a harmless pastime may want to find some pearls to clutch.

15 God Of W🌠ꦜar (Series)

Ah, Kratos. Perhaps the angriest video game protagonist of all time, Kratos’s M.O. is slaughtering everything he comes across with little to no interaction besides extreme violence. Half disturbingly brutal and half comically over the top, the violence in the God of War seri༺es has always been a corne𓃲rstone for fans of the Ghost of Sparta’s killing sprees.

Violence can range from cutting off Hermes’ legs to take his winged shoes, to the extremely visceral quick time events used to eviscerate and maim larger enemies. Kratos rips Helios’s head off with his bare hands for god’s sake. That scene alone is enough to make even the most exp🌃erienced gore hou💧nd’s stomach turn.

14 💯  D🗹ead Space (Series)

An excellent survival horror series, the Dead Space games deliver on the violence and gore in spades. You would never s🅷uspect a game that literally has the message “CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS” painted on a mirror in blood to be one of the most violent ever made. Focusing on Isaac Clark, an incredibly unfortunate space engineer, and his horrific war against a grotesque race of aliens called necromorphs, the game focuses on extremely violent gun play in space.

The main method to bring down enemies is to sever their limbs using a variety of repurposed mining tools. The blood and guts fly through the air as Isaac butchers his way brutally through swarms of mutated human abominations. The Dead Space series is one of the most outstanding, and violent, examples of survival horror in the last decade. Except Dead Space 3; that game really sucks.

13 ꦰ Manhun𝓀t (Series)

Rockstar’s over the top murder sim, the Manhunt series is well known for its violence and stomach churning executions. Creep out of the shadows and slink behind an unsuspecting baddy with a weapon and the lock-on reticle will change colors depending on how long you hold the attack button down. Say you’re using a plastic bag to bring down an unsuspecting f﷽oe. Your regu💮lar execution will be a brief, but the incredibly disturbing attack that asphyxiates your foe with said bag. Hold down the attack button until the reticle flashes red and the attack is much more severe, ending in the bag-headed baddy having his head beaten in while suffocating.

12 ꦿ Splatterhouse (Series) 💫

A retro series remembered fondly by all those who’ve played it, followed by a less than satisfying reboot in the 2000s, the Splatterhouse series was the epitome of violence in the retro era. Following hockey m🐷asked protagonist Rick on a quest to save his kidnapped girlfriend, players will slay hellish beasts with a vicious arsenal of weapons and gore splattering moves.

Chainsaws can be used to cut enemies into pieces, bosses feast on flesh in a room of desiccated human corpses, and brains and bloo🙈d splatter just about everywhere that you look. Like most retro titles, the games can seem pretty subdued compared to the gore-drenched modern day video game industry, but it still remains in my eyes as one of the most violent, gruesome series that exists today.

11 Grand Theft Auto (Series) 𒅌

Starting with the first two iterations in the now infamous series, Grand Theft Auto's violence was always egregious. It wasn't until the third entry in the series that the media started perking up. Enter the first third-person action entry in Grand Theft Auto III, and the world went wild. Enemies could be shot, stabbed, and beaten to death. Th🐲e news was rife with reports of children being able to🐭 witness lewd sexual acts with in-game prostitutes before running them over or beating them to death with baseball bats.

Often used as a cornerstone in the “violent video games cause violent behavior” debate, Rockstar has done little to tone down the themes in its smash hit Grand Theft Auto series. Grand Theft Auto V allowed players to 168澳洲幸运5🐽开奖网:participate in new forms of debauchery, depicting torture, over the top violence, and allowing players to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:be a creep in general.

10 ♐ Resident Evil (Series)

The best survival-horror series of all time, the Resident Evil games are some of the bloodiest games to have ever been made. I still remember my first time popping in the original Resident Evil and being treated to a screen warning me of the intense violence and gore I was about to be subjected to. Still, a warning didn’t prep🐲are me for the amount of zombie-fueled gore I was about to experience.

Even the original was overly violent, as zombie dogs ripped mercilessly at my appendages and Barry popped zombie heads with well-placed magnum rounds like ripe melons filled with firecrackers. The series' violence only increased as it went on, all for the better of the franchise; Resident Evil 7 wouldn’t be s🌠o darn fantastic without alꦉl the extremely violent and bloody subject matter.

9 💧 Tomb Raider

A series that debuted on the original PlayStation and was more well known for environmental puzzles and preposterously boxy boobs has taken an extremely violent twist circa 2013. The Tomb Raider reboot, cleverly named Tomb Raider, s💞aw a much more realistic take on the T-Rex ꦦslaying days of the series' past.

Stranded on an island with her ship’s crew and a gang of crazed, canni🐓balistic mercenaries, Laura Croft has no choice but to violently butcher her way through the twisted jungle and ancient ruins to discover the secret of an ancient sun god. Not only are the kills and gunplay extremely visceral and gory; there is a particular scene where Laura is forced to wa꧂de through a river of blood and hacked off limbs. I didn’t feel clean for a week, despite repeated showers.

8 🔯 Mortal Kombat (Series)

The first series that most overzealous politicians and pearl clutching housewives will think of when “violence in video games” is brought up, Mortal Kombat is tame by today’s standards. Originally released when violent video games and their effects on the children that played them was the center of a media firestorm, Mortal Kombat was pretty bloody.

Buckets of blood flew out of characters even at the lightest jab, fatalities were brutal and graphic, and environmental fatalities showed characters impaled on spikes or ground into giblets. The violence only increased as the series evolved, with Mortal Kombat X showing slow motio💫n x-rays that would make a serial kil𒁃ler's eyes water.

7 MadWorld

An uncharacteristically violent Wii game, MadWorld is one of the most violent games ever released on a Nintendo console. The game follows a contestant on “DeathWatch,” a game show devoted to killing and destruction. The game also bears a resemblance to Sin City, as the ꦕwhole game is in black and white, with the buckets of red gore being the only other color in the game.

MadWorld takes advantage of the Wii’s unique remote and Nunchuck attachment, allowing players to pull off gruesome finishers with a swipe th🍬rough the air to simulate a chainsaw cutting through a foe. The game’s violence is extremely over the top, making it a serious oddity for a friendly family company like Nintendo.

6 Condemned: Criminal Orig🎃ins

One of the scariest games that I’ve ever played (those damn mannequins!), Condemned: Criminal Origins is essentially a homeless beating simulator. Following a crime investigation agent and his descent into madness in his attempts to catch a serial killer, the game🐈 features up close brutal melee combat that is carried out with whatever can be found in the environment.

Enemies are beaten to death with the likes of rebar, pipes, and occasionally a gun. Guns are only found wit𒁃h a few rounds in them, and the protagonist’sไ aim isn’t the best, making melee a must. There are few things as brutal as chopping a crazed crack head down in a bloody spray using the bladed arm of a rusty paper cutter.