History MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness / VideoGames8To10

* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' [[note]] Lots of hideously mutilated bodies. Some enemies die in gory piles. Would be a 10 if the graphics were higher quality. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SniperEliteV2'', ''[[VideoGame/SniperElite3 3]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SniperElite4 4]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SniperElite5 5]]'' [[note]] Slow-mo X-ray kill-cams displaying bones, skulls, and organs (including testicles) gorily bursting. Minimal external damage shown however. Otherwise level 7 for bloody gun and knifeplay. [[/note]]

* ''[[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ninja Gaiden 3]]'' [[note]] The "Razor's Edge" version has torrentially bloody and gory dismemberment/slicing of enemies. Not to the extent of 2 though. The vanilla version has no dismemberment, but has just enough blood and brutality to reach this level. [[/note]]

* ''[[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ninja Gaiden 2]]'' [[note]] Excessive/repeated sloppy dismemberment and mutilation of single human targets. [[/note]]

* ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatI Mortal]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII Kombat]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Klassic]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombat4 Series]] '' [[note]] Gory, but brief, cartoonish, and not ''too'' brutal fatalities; often involving very bloody but undetailed total obliteration, dicing, bisecting, decapitations, and heart removals. MK 4 borders on 9 with two fatalities ending with the opponent unrealistically (the flesh textures just fall off of them) melted and [[MakesSenseInContext blown]] into a bloody skeleton with viscera hanging off the bones; and the fighter "Meat", a bloody skeleton; so is MK 3 for having a fatality which has the opponent get stripped to the bone skin first with a blood-curdling scream. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' [[note]] Captive human women beg to be put out of there misery and can be exploded into bloody gibs, including an eyeball. Alien bosses die graphic deaths with red blood; such as eyeball dislodged from socket and punted through a field goal, graphically blasted in the head with a shotgun, another graphically decapitated and defecated in. Easter-eggs such as [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy]] and [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Snake]] [[Film/EscapeFromLA Plissken's]] corpses show their mutilated bodies with guts exposed. [[/note]]

** ''VideoGame/WitchsNightOfVengeance''

* ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatI Mortal]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII Kombat]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Klassic]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombat4 Series]] '' [[note]] Gory, but brief, cartoonish, and not ''too'' brutal fatalities; often involving very bloody but undetailed total obliteration, dicing, bisecting, decapitations, and heart removals. MK 4 borders on 9 with two fatalities ending with the opponent unrealistically (the flesh textures just fall off of them) melted and [[MakesSenseInContext blown]] into a bloody skeleton with viscera hanging off the bones; and the fighter "Meat", a skinless living corpse clad only in a thong with a dangling eye and blood oozing everywhere; so is MK 3 for having a fatality which has the opponent get stripped to the bone skin first with a blood-curdling scream. [[/note]]

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'' [[note]] Repeated bloody, brutal butchery that tops its predecessors, with the new Kreate-A-Fatalities allowing for all sorts of creatively gruesome ways to tear your enemy apart with gallons upon gallons of blood gushing out. A very hard 9 overall, with the finishers being cartoonish and comical enough to evade the level 10. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/FancyIsland'' [[note]]Several bloodied faces and extremely grotesque corpses show up as jumpscares. A room with a hanged corpse is infested with wriggling maggots. Enemies might explode into LudicrousGibs when shot. The surreal imagery however, hold this back to a 9 rather than a 10.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/GladioAndGlory'' [[note]] Repeated bloody dismemberment, decapitation, and disembowelment. Borderline 10 but the comedic presentation and not too detailed art style prevent it from that level.

** ''VideoGame/{{Hellbound}}''

* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000Darktide'' [[note]]Bloody multi-dismemberment and bisection with chunky gibs. Dynamic body damage with exposed bones and muscles. Gnarly rotting zombies that spew maggots when attacked.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' [[note]] Heavy weapons expose organs. Gory head destruction, dismemberment, and jaw ripping. Gory bodies. Brutally executing hostages and wounded enemies. A hard 9 but not as detailed and gratuitous as it's sequel. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' [[note]] Next-gen enhanced detail and expanded body destructibility bring an already hard 9 up here with it's sequel. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartI'' [[note]] Next-gen enhanced detail and expanded body destructibility bring an already hard 9 up here with it's sequel. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' ([=PS2=] original/The Journey) [[note]] For Thanatos bursting out of Orpheus during the awakening cutscene, with the bloody head seen flying. Otherwise a 6 for the cutscene of [[spoiler: Shinji's bloody death by gunshot,]] the [[BloodyHorror large amounts of blood during the Dark Hour]] and depictions of people melting into gray goop without any gore. 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/Persona3'' ([=PS2=] original/The Journey) [[note]] For Thanatos bloodily bursting out of Orpheus during the awakening cutscene, with the head seen flying. Otherwise a 6 for the cutscene of [[spoiler: Shinji's bloody death by gunshot,]] the [[BloodyHorror large amounts of blood during the Dark Hour]] and depictions of people melting into gray goop without any gore. 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/Diablo}}'' [[note]] Chunky gibs. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/LetsFindLarry'' [[note]]Mostly for the penultimate section, where a man’s head is graphically severed in two.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' [[note]] It has a pixel art style, yet still features kindergartners killed in gory ways. [[/note]]

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Contra: Rogue Corps]]'' [[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/{{Contra}} Neo Contra]]'' [[note]] Chunky gibs, profusely gushing blood, final boss spews blood before shattering into pieces. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Quarantine}}'' [[note]] Gory obliteration of enemies and [accidental] pedestrians. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SawIIFlesh&Blood'' [[note]] Much gorier than the first game with explicit gore regularly featured. Especially aftermaths that border on 10 at times. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast2005'' [[note]] Gory transformations and dismemberment. [[/note]]