NowGamer writes: "We've just consumed a terrified screaming woman, our tentacles ripping through her stricken body as we absorb her whimpering remains. Having replenished our health, we turn our attention to the horrified quad of soldiers frantically firing at us, morphing an arm into a huge organic blade. Plunging into them, we send arms, legs and torsos spiralling to the pavement in a spray of blood, before leaping away and running up the sheer side of a building, blood covered, remorseless and unstoppable. We don't know who we are or what's been done to us, but we're coming, and our enemies had better run.
If nothing else, you sometimes feel extremely powerful playing Prototype, Radical Entertainment's violent open-world game. The tale of Alex Mercer, a man who wakes up in a morgue with little memory of who he is but possessing great bio-organic powers, is less a case of 'with great power comes great responsibility' and more a case of 'with great power do whatever the hell you like'."
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Not all video game protagonists are sweet, jolly, or wholesome. Folks like Agent 47 are cold, ruthless, and reserved and it shows.
I'd like to believe Joel's situation is more about turning into a calloused survivor in a cold-hard world who may have made selfish decisions. Not inherently ruthless.
Ah, fond memories of strangling all the people in their hotel rooms in Hitman 1
Lara Croft, Nathan Drake etc, cos they pretend to be the good guys but are mass murderers that show no remorse.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
Trevor in GTA 6 is a sadist and psychopath who dabbles in cannibalism. Should be top of the list. These game “news” sites should hire people that know games.
