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Today, we’re going to be taking a look under the hood of modernity - the video games industry.
As a whole - video games are a fantastic outlet of creativity, art and expression - but in
some cases, things just go horrifically wrong.
If hope you’re all having a fantastic day - as always, I’ll be your host Jack Finch
- as we take a look at the Top 5 Games Illegal To Play.
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Now - a slight disclaimer, although in certain countries - some of these games on this list
are in actual fact very much illegal to play, for the most part - in the rest of the world,
they’re just straight up banned or not distributed by official channels, although you can still
get your hands on them.
Kicking off at Number 5 - we have Postal 2.
Released in 2003 - as the synonymous sequel to 1997’s original Postal - this game labels
itself as a black comedy first-person shooter video game, from creators Running With Scissors.
Now - in all fairness, the reason this game’s at Number 5 is because - I’m personally
unsure whether it deserved such backlash.
Yeah - it’s bad.
It’s in poor taste, but the games creators clearly marketed it as a niche game, with
the tagline “it’s only as violent as you are.”
Nevertheless - in 2004, New Zealand banned the game due to it’s gross and abhorrent
content, with Australia soon joining suit, banning it due to excessive abhorrent content.
It went on to be banned in Malaysia, Germany and Sweden - although some of them would be
later rescinded.
In the game, you play the role of the Postal Dude, an everyday run-of-the-mill trailer
park denizen, who has to complete a certain number of tasks as peacefully - or violently
chaotic as the player chooses.
Religious cults, cannibalistic butchers, al-Qaeda - Gary Coleman, it’s got it all.
Coming in at Number 4 - Standoff.
Yeah - this game just sucks.
Standoff - previously titled Active Shooter - was developed by Russian video game creator
Anton Makarevskiy and publisher Ata Berdiyev.
In my opinion - it’s a game in incredibly poor taste, lack of foresight - and just a
straight up terrible title.
The game depicts a school shooting, where the player takes the role of either an active
shooter or a SWAT member responding to the event.
Players have an arsenal of guns, grenades or knives, and a civilian and police death
tally that racks up on screen.
The game attracted some serious controversy in May of 2018, after parents of the Stoneman
Douglas High School shooting victims campaigned against the game online - a petition which
attracted 100’000 signatures by the time of the games cancellation through Steam.
Valve, the company behind Steam, later went on to update it’s publishing policy, and
called the game’s creator - a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted
material and user review manipulation.
Nice work.
Next up at Number 3 - Hatred.
If we’re talking pure disturbing content, then Hatred is pretty high up on this list.
Developed and published as the debut release for Destructive Creations, a studio based
in Poland - Hatred introduces the player as a misanthropic mass-killing sociopath - on
a genocide crusade to kill as many human beings as possible.
To say this game was controversial is a little bit of an understatement.
The developers described Hatred as a reaction to video game aesthetic trends, political
correctness - politeness, vivid color - and games as art.
Which - in a way, I’m all for - you can’t have light without some dark.
But - these guys just totally missed the mark.
The sake of being disturbing and shocking for the sake of being disturbing and shocking,
doesn’t really give you precedence to create offensive material, without the outline of
some kind of wider message.
Which this game doesn’t have.
It’s just continuous violent murder wrapped up in a crappy game.
It’s soundtrack is pretty decent, though.
Coming in next at Number 2 - Sad Satan.
Now - this game is a little bit of an enigma, and pretty damn creepy nonetheless.
First picked up on the YouTube channel, Obscure Horror Corner in June 2015, it was initially
thought to be a promotional stunt to up the channels popularity - which, undeniably worked
- but then things got a little bit real.
Built on the Terror Engine, and developed by an unknown source, Sad Satan was reportedly
downloaded to the internet through the Tor network via a deep web internet forum.
It was referred to by a forum user known only as ZK, and then later released to 4chan by
someone claiming to be the same user - claiming that people needed to witness the true version
of the game.
What exactly does it contain then?
Well - not a whole lot of anything, other than gore and other disturbing images from
the dark places of the internet.
The player walks down a monochromatic corridor, as audio recordings of various murderers such
as Charles Manson and Tsutomu Miyazaki are played.
Real images of murder and beheadings pop up - and creepy child statues follow the player’s
movement.
It’s bizarre, it’s weird - and if someone did create it as a release to the deep web,
then it's even weirder.
And finally, at our Number 1 spot - Manhunt 2.
This list wouldn’t be complete without the most controversially banned game in history.
The sequel to Manhunt, which - I’ve actually played, and is a pretty bleak game - Manhunt
2 was released in 2007 by Rockstar Games.
The game actually has a pretty great storyline, but it’s the execution of its content that
got the public riled up.
You play as Daniel Lamb, a patient at Dixmor Asylum who wakes up with amnesia - who is
accompanied by Leo Kasper, a sociopathic assassin who guides Daniel on his journey.
Reception of the game was mixed, to say the least.
In the UK - it caused outrage as the first Manhunt had been inaccurately connected to
a murder case in 2004, and certain politicians were enraged at the thought of a sequel.
As US Senator at the time, Hillary Clinton, amongst others - described the game as visceral
and casually sadistic, and it was outright refused to be given a rated by the BBFC.
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