6 Video Games That Didn’t Realise They Were Being Offensive

2. Ride To Hell: Retribution

Few games have as little going for them as Ride to Hell: Retribution, a game that tries to make up for its countless frailties with a dramatic title and a myriad of bosomy female characters. Here we have a game that one can only assume has been made by people who believe that the entire gaming community is made up of 14-year-old boys who want nothing more than an interactive movie in which a muscly, grizzled biker €“ and Vietnam veteran, naturally €“ kills people and gets off with women.

Ride to Hell: Retribution does an abysmal job of presenting females as anything other than sex objects. There is one section in the game where our thuggish protagonist saves a prostitute from a man who is harassing her by beating him up, within seconds of the bad guy hitting the floor we're shown an utterly haunting cutscene in which the prostitute and our protagonist are having sex: because that's obviously the logical conclusion to that scenario.

The only way that this could have been left in the game is if its developers had truly been oblivious to the potential ramifications of this objectification of women.