10 Video Game Inventions That Were Obviously Going To Kill You

10. Plasmids - BioShock

Unregulated bio-augmentation is a guaranteed one-way ticket to mayhem, as demonstrated so pointedly by the brilliant BioShock.

The game's intended utopian city of Rapture is thrown into chaos by the discovery of the gene-altering material ADAM, which grants users superhuman abilities.

This led to the creation of Plasmids - concentrated serums which bestowed users with a variety of powers, ranging from telekinesis to pyrokinesis, hypnosis, and even spawning a swarm of damn hornets.

But playing fast and loose with matter which can literally rewrite somebody's DNA was always going to lead to ruin, and while plasmids are most certainly useful to the player, they also threaten to be their undoing.

Throughout the game, players will face off against Splicers - dangerous foes who have been rendered violent, mutated psychopaths through their addiction to ADAM and rampant plasmid use.

They will put up quite the fight in the pursuit of more ADAM, and so the very thing that grants you incredible powers is also that which threatens your existence. Thank god for those life-saving Vita Chambers, right?