10 Times Controversy Made You Discover Amazing Video Games

2. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

Biggest Controversy: Enabling you to play out a massacre in a Sikh temple. Eidos haven't had a good track record when it comes to Hitman games, and not just because Absolution wasn't anywhere near as perfect as Blood Money. The former did catch hell for having an initial reveal trailer where Agent 47 gunned down a band of ninja-assassin-themed nuns, and Blood Money's ad-campaign tagline of 'Perfectly Executed' fell flat when all it consisted of were still images of beautiful women sprawled in certain poses post-kill.

Silent Assassin is arguably the best entry in the entire franchise in terms of level-variation and sheer amount of ways you can take care of targets, and ironically it also generated the most offence on release for something the developers totally overlooked - the portrayal of Sikhs in-game. By having you take down a target inside a temple-themed area where religious turban-wearing bodyguards could be murdered in a variety of ways - along with the option to steal their outfits and go on a spree of your own - The Sikh Coalition enacted a petition to remove the content from the game. As this was a world before downloadable patches all Eidos could do was patch the upcoming Gamecube release, and edit their own website to remove the offending content. Anyone else who purchased the original versions will remember this level fondly, as many in the west didn't pick up on this level of detail, and were too busy poisoning some chocolates for that Silent Assassin rank to notice.