10 Cruel Tricks Video Games Played On Co-Op Players

IO Interactive's cult fave third-person shooter Kane & Lynch: Dead Men features a co-op version of its campaign in which two players can play as each of the titular violent criminals.

While in the single-player campaign players control the more level-headed of the duo, Kane, in co-op the second player takes the reins of his psychotic, schizophrenic, murderous pal Lynch.

If the single-player game made it abundantly clear that Lynch was prone to violent outbursts without medication, co-op explains why in the most twisted way possible.

While playing as Lynch, player two will experience hallucinations as part of his "psychotic fear filter," meaning that on occasion - during story points and when you chain together kills - harmless civilians will resemble police officers, and female civilians will often even have a pig's head.

Believing the civilians to be members of the police, this gives Lynch the ability to melee execute the "cops," no matter that they're actually just regular, unarmed folk.

It's certainly a clever and unique way of putting players in a tortured character's mindset, even if anyone who loaded up the co-op for some brainless, violent mayhem got a more disturbing experience than they ever imagined.