4. Grayson Hunt - Bulletstorm
EABulletstorm, like Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, is a bit of an arcade shooter, running with the tagline "Kill with Kill". It's a game meant to invoke shooters such as Shadow Warrior and Painkiller, which are lighthearted and heavy on the carnage. This is all well and good, but Bulletstorm has another side to it. On the opposite end of the spectrum, it seems to be designed in the vein of gritty, serious epics like Gears of War and Halo, which doesn't do it many favours. Stuck in the middle of this vortex of split-minded game development is Grayson Hunt, a would-be hero turned drunkard space pirate seeking redemption for his past sins, even as he massacres gangs of Mad Max extras. In order to survive on a hostile alien world, Hunt is forced to kill his enemies with a great degree of skill (see: coolness) in order to stay supplied so that he can kill even more people. This wouldn't necessarily be an issue, if Grayson was a one-dimensional character. Throughout the game's cutscenes however, we're shown a more tender side of him, creating a bit of a rift between who he is off and on the battlefield. As the story unfolds, Hunt attempts to right the wrongs of his past, in which he might have killed a few innocent people. Naturally, the best course of action is to kill even more innocent people. You might justify his actions by labelling his enemies as crazy, but insane people need medical help, not a bullet to the brain. Maybe instead of shooting everyone, Grayson Hunt could have insisted they seek a psychiatrist. Now that would be interesting.