Ever played a game that made you cringe in disgust or fear at the amount of blood and offal flying across your screen? Or maybe it causes your blood to pump that much faster and makes you scream for more. Well here is a homage to the 10 games that achieve these emotions better than any others.

Videogames and violence go together like peanut butter and jelly. As any stoned out college boy can tell you, they complement each other perfectly and are twice as difficult to completely separate.

Efforts to remove any form of violence from video games have been met with scrutiny, scorn and downright failure. It cost Florida penal irritant Jack Thompson his career, his credibility and his ability to appear on television within five seconds of a bloody, national tragedy so he can blame it all on Banjo-Kazooie.

It's a fruitless and pointless effort. Videogames allow people to tap into that repressed aggression gene that lets us run wild and exact our revenge on the people who have wronged us without having to face a federal indictment, start a fight club or join some weird men's group that meets shirtless in the woods and howls at the moon like feral dogs.

That being said, some games give our Ids more bloodlust than any normal human being requires. These are the games that give violent videogames that target younger customers with promises of entertainment of an adult oriented nature a bad name.

Euphoric via gameist.com »