10 Video Games Where You're The Bad Guy

9. God Of War (2005)

While it's fair to say that the recent "soft reboot" of the God of War franchise made a major attempt to rehabilitate protagonist Kratos, as depicted in the original run of games he's a real piece of work alright.

Though the ruling maxim of the God of War games has always been that protagonist Kratos faces off against Gods who are bigger a**holes than himself, that sort of moral relativism doesn't really make Kratos much less of a bad guy.

Even if you let him off the hook for being manipulated into killing his own wife and daughter in the first game, Kratos still routinely kills innocents without a care in the world - especially Poseidon's Princess in God of War III, whose body he uses to open up a door, resulting in her eventually being crushed to death.

Kratos' sadism ramps up significantly in the second and third games, and even if you view him only as a rage monster that's scarcely recognisable as human, he's done more terrible things and killed more people in his various lives than almost anyone else on this list.