10 Most Ultra-Violent Video Games - Ranked From Worst To Best

8. Gears Of War 1-3

Fox News may have labelled Epic Games' followup Bulletstorm as "the worst game in the world", but it's Gears of War that has a wider variety of blood and guts on display.

Machine guns with under-mounted chainsaws, explosive arrows that literally reduce enemies to chunks of their former selves, face-mashing finishers and head-severing melee hits, Gears is a veritable cornucopia of claret, specifically designed to come together in the most enjoyable way possible.

As the series progressed, Epic Games would embrace this newfound identity to crank up the gore, introducing chainsaw duels, more explosive weapons and individual fatalities dependant on which weapon you were holding. That said, you could always just mount downed opponents and punch their faces into a fine paste - a highlight of winning any online bout, I must say.