9 Times Video Game Violence Went Too Far

4. Hotline Miami 2's Attempted Rape

For a game so colourfully retro, Hotline Miami is one of the most violent releases of the past few years. As you dress up in various sinister looking costumes, you're tasked with going on huge rampages to take down floors and floors of goons by stabbing, shooting, or smashing up anything - or anyone- in your way.

Cognisant of its own reputation, the sequel begins in a way that one-ups everything seen in the already blood-soaked original. Dressed as a grotesque serial killer in a pig mask, you make your way through a house as you clear out all of the guys on the first floor. Once you've finished off everyone in the first few rooms, you receive a call telling you that a girl - your target - is in the upstairs bedroom.

As you proceed to murder everyone else in the room, you're forced to fatally wound the half-naked girl herself. However, if that's not uncomfortable enough, as the dying woman squirms on the floor, the only way you can finish the scene is by pressing the action button - which results in the killer attempting to rape her.

Thankfully(ish), this scene turns out to be part of a film shoot, and the director calls cut before you see the woman actually assaulted. However, you don't know this while you're playing it - and it makes for one of the most uncomfortable opening levels ever made. Maybe that was the point, but when you realise the whole thing isn't relevant to the game anyway, it feels like shallow shock factor just for the sake of it.