11. Postal 2
2003 Running With Scissors Bringing out the repressed psychopath in all of us,
Postal 2 was the first game with the ability to piss on people and to use a cat as a makeshift gun silencer. Carrying out a series of mundane tasks including queuing at the bank and buying groceries, the game can be completed without harming a single person. But wheres the fun in that ? This allowed Postal 2 to fit into every developers favourite excuse - stating that the violence is entirely up to the player themselves. When your game features weapons, dismemberment and Gary Coleman its quite clear which path is being encouraged. The offensive humour of the game didnt help matters either, with such highlights as Al-Qaeda terrorists who spout lines as glorious as Infidel ! Ill crash a plane into your mother!. Postal 2 even found itself featured in the music video for
Where Is The Love by
The Black Eyed Peas. I'm not sure I agree with the game being held responsible for corrupting youngsters - at least not from a band who find it appropriate to record a song called
Lets Get Retarded. Really though, the greatest injustice of Postal 2 was spawning a terrible and equally depraved Uwe Boll film which created its very own controversy with an hilarious
9/11 opening sequence. http://youtu.be/6Il-zbiclng