What are your favorite cheesy/over-the-top violent games?

Some of mine are Mortal Kombat, Postal 2 and Carmageddon.

I've never played it but would like to try Harvester sometime. lol

Back when I had Windows 95 (life was much simpler back then) I had a fighting game called Expect No Mercy. It was based on a film that I'd not heard of and it was pretty OTT on the violence front. The game was so bad though, and cheesy, it's worth playing. :)

MK cheesy?

It was dead serious when we were kids:

:P

But looking past the violence and atmosphere, it was a rather shallow fighter.

I hold a similar opinion about Carmageddon and Postal which I consider fun but not actually good games, if you take out the violence.

Solder of Fortune, however, I consider a good game due to good level design and enjoyable gunplay. (the first one, the second was much worse in the level design, gunplay and difficulty curve departments)

God of War games, without a doubt. So incredibly over-the-top violent. And it's so well polished.

Time Killers and it's psuedo-sequel Bloodstorm. 2d weapon based fighters where you could win the match in one hit if you took the other guy's head off. You could also remove arms and (in Bloodstorm) legs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2_hzLmkpHs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nun6IqWGHKU

-Byshop

Postal 2 and the Splatterhouse re-make.

Mortal Kombat was never meant to be cheesy. They were dead serious. Do you guys remember the ads?

Duke Nukem 3D

Mortal Kombat was never meant to be cheesy. They were dead serious. Do you guys remember the ads?

Emerald_Warrior

They included friendships and babalities as a counter-measure for the violence.

But back then MK was quite controversial, true.

It even triggered a political debate in the US government about banning violent games and formed the ESRB game rating body.

Nintendo even censored the SNES version.

These days, violence in games is something normal but back then it was quite a new experiece to rip out realistic-looking people's heads with spine in a video game. ;)

Relevant to the thread Some of these games look really bad, but probably fun for a little bit. I didn't know Eternal Champions had fatalaties. 

Note: During the first minute or so when the games are listed you can click the name to skip right to it.

Loaded, Grand Theft Auto 2, Mortal Kombat, Twisted Metal 2, and Resident Evil.

Twisted Metal 2

dagon1344

God of War games, without a doubt. So incredibly over-the-top violent. And it's so well polished.

Emerald_Warrior

Postal

Splatterhouse was probably the 1st really violent game that I remember and I'm relatively certain that it was the one that started it all.

Splatterhouse was probably the 1st really violent game that I remember and I'm relatively certain that it was the one that started it all.

 

Uloset

I think it was the first arcade game to be banned in North America too.

Splatterhouse was probably the 1st really violent game that I remember and I'm relatively certain that it was the one that started it all.

Uloset

That was a memorable one. But there were others before it. Custer's Revenge is a game on Atari 2600 where you rape an Native American girl that's tied to a cactus.

Smash TV is both cheesy ("I'd buy that for a dollar!") and over-the-top violent. I dread to think what the body count is in the first level. I love that game.

Along w/ just about everyone else in the universe, I was wild about the Mortal Kombat games when they first came out. I also have fond memories of gunning down school children in the first couple Grand Theft Auto games. I dunno if either of these are cheesy but definitely over the top.

[QUOTE="Uloset"]

Splatterhouse was probably the 1st really violent game that I remember and I'm relatively certain that it was the one that started it all.

Emerald_Warrior

That was a memorable one. But there were others before it. Custer's Revenge is a game on Atari 2600 where you rape an Native American girl that's tied to a cactus.

cheesy and violent games: Metroid: Other M, Resident Evil Code: Veronica

just flat out, over the top cheesy: Oh, I don't know. How bout every single Dead or Alive game?

Mortal Kombat, twisted Metal, Duke Nukem

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

God of War games, without a doubt. So incredibly over-the-top violent. And it's so well polished.

Jag85

This ^

Mortal Kombat, twisted Metal, Duke Nukem

Megavideogamer

True Lies for the Genesis. Yea the Arnold Swartzenegger movie. The game was awesome. Dino Crysis (I loved them but they were violent and retarded).

WHOOOOOO WANTS SOME WANG? :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcrjgQIhiRU

cheesy and violent games: Metroid: Other M, Resident Evil Code: Veronica

just flat out, over the top cheesy: Oh, I don't know. How bout every single Dead or Alive game?

GSJones1994

God Hand and No More Heroes 2

True Lies for the Genesis. Yea the Arnold Swartzenegger movie. The game was awesome. Dino Crysis (I loved them but they were violent and retarded).

Foulcry

What was 'retarded' about "Dino"?

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[QUOTE="Foulcry"]

True Lies for the Genesis. Yea the Arnold Swartzenegger movie. The game was awesome. Dino Crysis (I loved them but they were violent and retarded).

MonkeySpot

What was 'retarded' about "Dino"?

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