Many games use violence to further plot and story progression, but few go as far as God of War 3 did. He walks through and the woman screams as the gears crush her into pulp.
In God of War 3 a man with ashen skin covered in crimson tattoos and scars ties a half-naked woman to a gear mechanism to keep a door open. In Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus a Nazi soldier is stalked along a corridor until both feet are chopped off at the ankle and an axe is embedded in his chest. In DOOM a demon’s leg is bent forward until both hip and knee dislocate and the creature’s foot is used to crush its own head.
