17 Most Violent Video Game Moments Of The Decade (So Far)
7. Almost Every Melee Attack - Hitman: Absolution/Hitman
The Hitman games have always revelled in letting you dispatch your targets in the most inventive and experimental ways possible, but sometimes you just need to get up close and personal with any number of melee weapons.
In particular, say a random innocent just wandered in on you garrotting your target. They begin to flee, only for you to think "F this", before plucking a nearby fire axe off the wall and chasing them down. You could fling it two-handed style over your head, its pinwheeling trajectory slamming home with enough force to knock them off their feet and embed it in their body, or you can just run up and see 47 bury it in their skull.
Fire axes, knives, shovels, statue heads, kitanas, crowbars... the list goes on, but the satisfying brutality has always stayed the same.