Gory Game 4 (Gears of War)

     Gears of War, released November 7th, 2006, is a third person shooter. It sold over 3 million copies in just a little less than ten weeks (More information on this site). The story line is really good. But as you can see by the title, it is a very gory game. It is a shooter game so you are shooting at enemy aliens, called "Locusts." They look like men but with pale skin and almost look like they have some sort of skin disease. They are also very muscular. The game focuses on killing the enemies in a gory way. Like one of the guns in the game is attached with a chainsaw, allowing one to "chainsaw" the enemy in half.

     The games violence level is bad. As I explained earlier, you "can use a chainsaw to rip apart enemies or machine guns to spray them down. A deadly laser strike can level buildings. Characters and world are photorealistic, making bloody battles seem even gorier" (take from this site). But also, there is a sniper in the game and, if shot correctly at the enemies head, then their head explodes (yuck). Along with another weapon, that if shot into the enemy, explodes a couple seconds after impact, which means it "blows bodies up from the inside out." All these ways to kill the locust just makes the game almost disturbing to play from the gore level, making it a topic that is sometimes talked about on its gore levels. The battles in the game against the Locust and the Humans, are too violent and the weapons that are used in it, like the "sniper," don't help the level of violence either. These factors both add up to making this game a recommended  "no-play" game.