Top 10 Most Controversial Games

Mishtram | April 13, 2007 | Top List | Misc

From Grand Theft Auto, to "Ethnic Cleansing", some of most insensitive, outrageous and controversial games to ever hit the gaming scene are listed here ...

The videogame industry has been on the target of mainstream-media/critics for provoking violence, crime and profanity from time to time. There are dozens of videogames that have been debatable and created controversies, apparently giving publicity to publishers.

The games that have created ripples to that effect are generally of shooter or action/adventure genre provoking violence or nurturing aggression in the kids. Here are a few of them:

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teodortenchev | April 14, 2007

I didn't know God of War 2 was such a cool game
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OOTER | April 14, 2007

Surprised to see Bully there. There wasn't actually anything controversial about it. ANy top 10 most controversial games list is just shoddy if it doesn't include Postal, or Postal 2.
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Gary15 | April 14, 2007

I think Bully was there because there was a far bit of controversy when the game was announced rather than after its release.
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Sakura | April 14, 2007

The fact that Leisure Suit Larry was in there made me laugh. I totally had forgotten about that game. GTA and God of War aren't a surprise either. =)
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earlimoon | April 14, 2007

haha, I thought that hot coffee thing would come up. And I didnt know so many games has Sexuality & Nudity, have to find myself a copy of GoW2 now..
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Requiem | April 14, 2007

Interestingly, Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy has full frontal nudity and two sex scenes in it, yet didn't cause any controversy, despite being acclaimed and covered in mainstream newspapers (The Guardian had a review of it, I believe). I think the main difference was in the game's intelligent treatment and attitude towards these topics - that is, sex happens between adults and people shouldn't get worked up over it. Compare that to the adolescent glorification of the same subject matter in GTA or Leisure Suit Larry and I suppose you can see why people get more heated over the latter games.
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dmf_dynasty | April 14, 2007

I remember all of these, although I've only played Bully. God of War really surprised me.
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Gary15 | April 15, 2007

GOW did surprise be a bit too, it is pretty violent but I never saw it as being overly controversial.
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Shinobi_razor | April 15, 2007

the Left Behind game?! LMAO! firstly i didnt even know about a game based on Left Behind and secondly, why the hell would they put that game on there?

sure, San Andreas had Hot Coffee and all the violence...ah well this list is crap anyways.