10 Most Controversial Video Games Of All Time
9. Carmageddon
As Carmageddon was based on mowing down innocent pedestrians, it came as no surprise when the game's road to home consoles turned out to be a bumpy one, paved with contention.
Stainless Games's drive-em-up was your standard vehicular combat affair with one key difference: it rewarded fans for knocking down members of the public and killing them.
Given that courting controversy rarely hurts sales, publisher SCI submitted the game to the UK's BBFC in the hope of earning an 18 certificate, but this quest for infamy hit a snag when the watchdog refused to classify the game, only passing it uncut after months of appeals.
The original Carmageddon was censored in numerous countries and only cleared for release in these territories when the developers swapped out the human pedestrians for zombies and robots, two things that have provided gamers with guilt-free targets since time immemorial.