This is one of the few times where I think the gratuitous violence is being taken just a bit too far. This looks dramatically more violent than even the first two (which I've played and beat).
I have no problem with violence in games, I have no problem with even gratuitous violence in games. But at some point it actually becomes beyond just tasteless and becomes a combination of dumb/sick. Hostel is the movie equivalent of what I see here. Ridiculously graphic over the top violence that serves absolutely no purpose other than to show how violent somebody can make something.
I mean seriously, entrails spilling out of the centaurs gut, seeings the flesh and tendons separating as he pulls somebodies head off with his bear hands and then the flesh and tendons just dangle their afterwards? It's like the scene in Hostel where they in great detail show a man take a blowtorch to a japanese girl's eye and then it's just dangling there while she screams and the good guy has to use scissors to cut off her dangling eye ball and she's screaming while some random green pus squirts out of her eye socket. It's just gorno (gore porn). It's over the top in an attempt to try and stay shocking, but it's so over the top it ceases to be shocking and starts to be dumb and beyond tasteless. Even more tasteless than stupid machismo games like Gears of War.
This just comes off like Eminem's new album where he talks about raping Lindsay Lohan, and murdering people at Mcdonalds. It's a teenager scribbling whatever he views as over the top unacceptable thinking that it makes him cool. I'm not impressed.
Edit: I want to throw in here that I don't think the game should be censored, I believe in freedom of expression. But I also believe in the freedom to say that this game looks like it's being made by an angsty 14 year old wearing black finger nails polish and is so fucking proud of himself for having entrails spill out of dead bodies, and will promptly get into his mom's SUV, go home to his 400k house, cut himself and complain about how terrible his life is, before going back to his note book and drawing people getting decapitated because he's just that real and that hard.
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