History MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness / VideoGames8To10

* ''[[VideoGame/AlteredBeast Project Altered Beast]]'' [[note]] Gory transformations and dismemberment. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' [[note]] Huge blood splatters from sometimes repeated shootings. Profuse blood spray from stabbings. Graphic aftermaths of massacres. Brutal torture and executions; some bordering on 9. The exaggerated/cartoonish nature of some of these slightly dampen them.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SeveranceBladeOfDarkness'' [[note]] Continually dismembering live targets limb by limb in very bloody fashion. [[/note]]

* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' [[labelnote:following games]] ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Aria Of Sorrow]]'', ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance Harmony Of Dissonance]]'', ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChronicles Chronicles]]'', ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow Lords Of Shadow 1]]'' [[/labelnote]] [[note]] The former 2 are light 8s for surprisingly graphic gibs and body horror for T-rated games. ''Chronicles'' has some pixelated but surprisingly graphic mutilated bodies/parts in the backround of the dungeon including minimal detail but recognizably skinned bodies, ''[=LoS=]'' is a much harder 8 with graphic blood gushing from impalements, dismemberment, gibs, throat and eye lascerations, and grisly remains of human massacres; sometimes being eaten by creatures. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' [[note]] Disemboweled body. Live victims fed to wood chippers. Heads sawn in half. [[spoiler: Wei's]] brutal and bloody torture scene. Hostages riddled with gunfire and/or and executed. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'' [[note]] It ranks here [[spoiler:for the fight with [[BonusBoss The Forgotten One]], [[NauseaFuel an extremely horrific-looking rotting creature hung up by meat hooks with exposed innards and live maggots all over]] that spews [[HighPressureBlood gratuitously torrential blood sprays]] whenever you destroy its organs]]. Despite the low detail, it's still gory enough to reach this level. Otherwise a 9 for gory boss designs and dismemberment/obliteration of certain enemies. [[/note]]

*** ''Evenicle'' [[note]] The actions of goblins and other monsters make the ones in Literature/GoblinSlayer look like angels. (They can even make [[WebVideo/SsethTzeentach Sseth]] break character).
*** The ''Rance'' Series [[note]] The titular character [[SerialRapist seldom waits for consent]] before having his way with any female character. But antagonists tend to [[WouldHurtAChild go far further]] with their crimes.
** ''VideoGame/WitchsNightOfVengeance''

* ''VideoGame/SpookysJumpScareMansion'' [[note]] Some of the death scenes are quite nasty; an image of a needle lowering into an eye, your mangled corpse ravaged by wolves, your body being incrinerated, and of a disembowled and hanged corpse if you type "open" when prompted. Borders on 10 if not drawn in a cartoony art style. [[/note]]

* ''[[VideoGame/DreadXCollection Squirrel Stapler]]'' [[note]] For the player's [[spoiler: skinned and dismembered "wife" impaled to a wall that you staple said squirrels to]] who is apparently [[spoiler: [[FateWorseThanDeath still alive]] ]].Despite the low-poly graphics, it's still disturbing enough to get here. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/LaikaAgedThroughBlood'': [[note]] Here mostly for the game's introduction, where the player comes across the body of a young boy who is mutiliated, disembowled, and crucified. Otherwise a hard 9 for gory gibs. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' ([=PS2=] original/The Journey) [[note]] For Thanatos bloodily bursting out of Orpheus during the awakening cutscene, with the head seen flying. Otherwise a 7 for the cutscene of [[spoiler: Shinji's bloody death by gunshot]] and the [[BloodyHorror large amounts of blood during the Dark Hour.]] The FES version is a level 9, borderline 10 for the [[spoiler: false protagonist]] being disintegrated layer by layer during The Answer. The PSP version would only be a 7 at worst due to the cutscenes being replaced with less gruesome realtime visuals. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}: G.O.R.E'' [[note]] Enemies burst into lots of blood and severed bodyparts in an unrealistic/undetailed way. Throats torn out. Cutscene violence is a bit more graphic but not on a higher level. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'' [[note]] Would normally be a 10, but the two-bit graphical presentation obscures some of the most graphic details[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Stasis}}'' [[note]] Gory deaths, suicides, and aftermaths including, melting, head explosions, hideous remains from botched experiments, most of the player's flesh blasted off, a brief closeup of a spine being painfully torn out when failing a minigame, and more. Would be a 10 if not for the elevated camera angle and strategic foreground placements and lighting. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/oTheSuffering'' (1) [[note]] Gory dismemberment, obliteration, impalement, brief flashes of skinned bodies, horrific body horror including a still living gaurd with no limbs and cut in half who can be mercy killed. Not detailed enough for a 10 though. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'' (1) [[note]] Gory dismemberment, obliteration, impalement, brief flashes of skinned bodies, horrific body horror including a still living gaurd with no limbs and cut in half who can be mercy killed. Not detailed enough for a 10 though. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/ContraRogueCorps'' [[note]] Enemies are blown up, grinded up, etcetera; into limbs, flesh and guts; and often look like mutilated bodies that are lacking skin and most of their flesh. Would be at least a 9 if it all wasn't pink. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' [[note]] It reaches this level due to [[CerebusSyndrome the infamous torture sequence]], which involves a completely innocent victim getting [[ColdBloodedTorture hideously brutalized and sadistically tortured]] by [[AxCrazy Trevor Philips]] via [[WaterTorture waterboarding with gasoline]], [[ElectricTorture electrocution]], [[TheToothHurts violently ripping out the victim's teeth with a pair of pliers]] and inflicting blunt force trauma to either [[{{Kneecapping}} the victim's knee]], arm, or [[GroinAttack groin]] with a {{wrench|Whack}} (with blood staining upon impact), not helped by [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential the fact that the victim can die and then be revived by adrenaline shot for further torture]]. What really sells it, though, is the RealismInducedHorror of the scenario, all of it being [[PlayedForDrama portrayed dead-seriously]], the fact that you can't skip it and the revelation that the torture [[TortureIsIneffective was ineffective]], yet Trevor went through with it anyway simply [[ForTheEvulz for the fun of it]]. There's also Peter Dreyfuss kidnapping, torturing and killing Leonora Johnson in an extremely gruesome way, which consists of him [[AnArmAndALeg cutting off her hands and feet]] and placing them in opposite areas, [[FacialHorror cutting off some of her face]], [[BreastAttack leaving multiple wounds on her breasts]], drawing a star on her back with a cigar, slicing off a portion of her thigh and writing "HAM" on it and [[OffWithHisHead cutting off her head]] (offscreen, although the aftermath is shown). Otherwise, it's a hard 9 due to a scene involving an extremely gory headshot, {{ludicrous gibs}} from humans being shredded by plane propeller and meat grinders, [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned Johnny Klebitz]] having his head brutally stomped by Trevor, etc., as the gameplay itself featuring intense combat, gunplay and more with lots of blood but no dismemberment. [[/note]]

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' [[note]] Extremely brutal and messy combat with huge levels of unprecedented bloodshed compared to the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 three]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX previous]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombat11 games]] made by [[Creator/NetherRealmStudios NRS]], complete with heavily detailed, ''VideoGame/DeadIsland2''-esque gore filled, blood-drenched Fatalities that now have a much more disturbingly realistic feel applied to them thanks to a common approach of being rather simplistic and focused, foregoing some of the more over-the-top mutilations in favor of subdued, yet sadistic ways to kill the opponents in grisly fahion. Also, there's the sheer presence of extremely barbaric and devastating attacks that are now made all the more vicious thanks to the new Kameo Characters system, gallons of photorealistic blood covering the characters and the entire floor as fights go on, gruesome and messy sound effects, and an increased graphical fidelity compared to ''Mortal Kombat 11''. [[/note]]

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' [[note]] Extremely brutal and messy combat with huge levels of unprecedented bloodshed compared to the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 three]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX previous]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombat11 games]] made by [[Creator/NetherRealmStudios NRS]], complete with heavily detailed, ''VideoGame/DeadIsland2''-esque gore filled, blood-drenched Fatalities, extremely barbaric attacks that are now made all the more vicious thanks to the new Kameo Characters system, gallons of photorealistic blood covering the characters and the entire floor as fights go on, gruesome and messy sound effects, and an increased graphical fidelity compared to ''Mortal Kombat 11''. [[/note]]

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' [[note]] The gameplay trailer alone shows extremely brutal and messy combat with huge levels of unprecedented bloodshed, complete with heavily detailed, ''VideoGame/DeadIsland2''-esque gore filled, blood-drenched Fatalities, extremely barbaric attacks that are now made all the more vicious thanks to the new Kameo Characters system, gallons of blood covering the floor as fights go on, earth shattering sound effects and an exponentially increased graphical fidelity compared to ''Mortal Kombat 11''. [[/note]]