The 25 Most Brutal Deaths in PC Gaming

Posted 08/18/2011 at 10:48am | by David Murphy

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Just how gory do PC games get nowadays? Spoiler: Get your umbrella. There’s a great crop of titles in the PC gaming universe that are guaranteed to make you squirm—either through a combination of their bloody mayhem, the actual method you go about killing someone (or being killed yourself), or the creativity a game puts into your hands and the decision it forces you to make about another character’s life.

Are all of the games on our list blood-spraying fountains of mayhem? Nope! But each and every death we’ve highlighted comes with its own special reasoning as to why it’s particularly brutal to watch. It goes without saying, but the videos we’re featuring are not for the squeamish! You’ve been warned.

Hitman: Blood Money

Any game that’s built around the idea of giving you maximum creative freedom for killing targets has nearly unlimited potential to be hilarious and brutal, all in one. Hitman: Blood Money is no exception, and the following clip shows just how gruesome this game’s A.I. can be in addition to its body count.

The Sims 3

The Sims 3 might not win high marks for its gruesomeness but, in this case, brutality is in the eyes of the beholder. You can’t make your Sim explode–we hope–but the sheer level of horribleness you can inflict on your Sims’ lives is damaging enough for your personal well-being, let alone your dearly departed digital friends.

Tron: Evolution

Okay, so we’re copping out: The video is obviously a clip from Tron: Legacy, not the PC game Tron: Evolution. Why the switch? Because the movie shows the brutal deaths better. And what’s so especially brutal about Tron? You get hit by a Frisbee and explode into a million little pieces of glass. Tron’s elementary school playgrounds must be killing grounds.

Diablo II

Want to talk about brutal? How about sinking countless hours and costly trades into developing a wicked, high-level hardcore character in Blizzard’s Diablo II… only to find said person dead at the hands of an unscrupulous (yet funny) player-killer. The death itself might not be that glamorous or gory, but we can’t say the same for the keyboard you’ll be pounding your fists into.

Bioshock

Spoilers: If you’re one of the three people who haven’t played the original Bioshock, don’t click this link. We beg of you. You’re ruining a great moment in a great story, and that’s all we’re going to say about that. For those with card-carrying membership to the Beat Bioshock club, however, would you kindly tell us why we picked the scene we did for this list?

Duke Nukem 3D

This timeless classic of first-person shooting–recently brought back into our lives via crappy remake–features such life-enriching feats of violence as kicking a field goal with an endgame boss’s eyeball. Other acts of charitable vengeance shown in the game are almost too graphic, and too funny, to print. Who doesn’t love catching up on the news?