10 Disgusting Video Game Achievements You Should Be Ashamed Of

5. Dastardly - Red Dead Redemption

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Like most every Rockstar video game, Red Dead Redemption makes no bones about the fact that you're playing as a highly morally questionable character, but even then, players can take this to some pretty grim extremes.

The legendary, secret "Dastardly" achievement can be popped by committing a most heinous act of violence against a totally innocent party.

That is, indulging in a classic western bad guy trope by using a lasso to hogtie a woman, place her on some train tracks, and remain nearby as she's exploded into a bloody mist by an oncoming train. Sadly in this case there's no grizzled, gritty hero around to save the day.

Again true to form for Rockstar, the developers make no effort to shy away from or minimise the bloody outcome. Anyone who keeps watching will witness the poor woman in question get instantly pulverised into a crimson shower of meaty chunks.

As, you know, tends to happen when human flesh gets stress-tested by a steam locomotive.

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