Violence in video games is a common thread, but when it came to Rockstar North's ultraviolent horror game Manhunt - in which players would experience psychologically draining and visually gruesome acts in order to progress - things got very, very real. This was a stealth game which asked players to avoid having horrible things done to them by doing far more horrible things to any surrounding gang members that were hunting them down, and it's a bit of a nightmare. Where some horror games have moments of relief after big scares where you might laugh at your reaction, Manhunt is just a dark trip that revels in violence in a way that borders on total discomfort. Despite being banned in many places and having an overbearingly grim atmosphere, the game was fun when you can get along with the whole 'horrifyingly brutal murder' thing. If ever there was an argument that video games are getting too violent, this would be Exhibit A, and Exhibit B would be how much fun people have actually had tumbling down this creepy rabbit hole.
A young man with a hairy face. Will often tell you that winter is coming before retreating to his mancave to play video games with a wooly jumper at the ready, just in case.
