10 Successful Games That Prove Gamers Might Be Unhinged

7. Hitman: Absolution

Brace yourselves people, this is where the arguments for gamers being unhinged actually start to carry some weight. The prime selling point for Hitman: Absolution is that you play agent 47, a bald badass that€™s paid to kill people, and there€™s little else going for it. Square Enix admittedly tried to make it more plot focused than its predecessor, but the story was far from compelling and certainly wasn€™t the star of the show. In Absolution players can pick up nearly anything lying around, whether that be a plunger, a screwdriver, or a fire axe, and use whatever it is to beat, jab, or hack unsuspecting cleaning ladies to death. Every weapon takes life in a different way and it€™s chilling realistic how quickly NPCs will drop lifelessly to the floor after having a bullet to the head. Like the next game on our list, Absolution makes murder look easy, and the amount of time it has players dragging garrotted bodies across the floor to find places to hide them really does make this game seem like a €˜how to get away with murder€™ guide. It€™s largely justified by the fact players only technically have to kill the particularly vile characters (e.g. a drug addicted crime lord) and can spend the rest of the time sneaking around the innocents if they want to, yet all the assassinations carried out are still a bit too personal and real for those enjoying it to not be at least a few sausages short of a barbeque. Saying that, the game never gets overly nasty with its level of violence, as limbs can€™t be severed and agent 47 always looks calm enough to stop you feeling malicious. For that reason Absolution can be seen in a more mechanical, strategy based way than a €˜watch me kill all these people€™ kind of way (a defence that cannot be given to the next game on our list). It is only business, after all.