As the year 2007 comes to an end, Best of/Worst of lists are starting to appear everywhere. One of the most interesting lists is the Canadian PC World's most offensive games of 2007.
A quick summery of the list is as follows:
9 - So You Think You Can Drive, Mel?
"It has Mel Gibson! Booze! State troopers! "Hava Nagila"! And a Hasidic projectile-shooting rabbi!"
8 - Manhunt 2
"What's most offensive about Manhunt 2 isn't its violence but its cruddy gameplay: Poor AI, boring environments, and blurry execution animations make Manhunt 2 a shoo-in for the year's Sound and Fury award."
7 - V-Tech Rampage
""Attention angry people, I will take this game down from Newgrounds if the donation amount reaches $1000 US," designer Ryan Lambourn wrote to visitors who found his simulation of the shooting at Virginia Tech this spring offensive."
6 - Kane & Lynch: Dead Man
""We're hunting for a dangerously sexy vixen with the goods to make us moan," reads an ad for a contest sponsored by IGN, MySpace, and Playboy. The ad was illustrated with a topless model coquettishly clutching her naughty bits."
5 - Mario Party 8
"[Nintendo] voluntarily pulled its minigame compilation from UK shelves over the oopsy-inclusion of a single word: "spastic.""
4 - Resistance: Fall Of Man
"The use of [the Manchester Cathedral] as a backdrop for a violent computer game is an affront to all those whose lives have been affected by guns."
3 - Scrabble 2007
"In September publisher Ubisoft found itself defending the game's inclusion of the word "lesbo," a derisive abbreviation for "lesbian.""
2 - The Darkness
"There isn't really a moral corrective for the protagonist, who feeds, penalty-free, on bad and good guys alike."
1 - Lair
"Lair is offensive not for its violent M-rated content, but for foisting on gamers one of the worst control ideas this side of Nintendo's hideous Virtual Boy."
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