You know like Rambo IV, the poor guy in the jeep brutally blown to small bits by that 50 cal LMG?

Personally I would love to play games where you can just go wild, if you are going to kill bad guys you may as well do it in style, and would like to take the Idea a little further, just hypothetically.

But how would you get so much violence allowed the censors (or even the publishers for that matter)? Would you need to do something to take the edge off (green blood etc)? And if you did or could would it be a responcible action to make one with extreem gore?

How would you technically make the gore? Swap meshes in and out for the damage? Alphas over normal maps are heavy, and making the resources for many possible damage locations would take a lot of work.

How about ripping that esophagus out and the whole trachia goes with it? It might not be too hard to do, what about slitting the stomach open and having intestines drag after the character? It sounds like a soft body dynamics nightmare, are there any equally grotesque types of damage you could do to a character that aren't so hard performance and work wise?

Tim

Soldier of fortune is pretty well known for doing most of that. Some modern games (darkwatch, or whatever, comes to mind) would swap models when the creatures switched to ragdoll for some things.

I found SOF2 at least at the time could be pretty shockingly gory. I also realized skulls being taken appart chunk by chunk didn't really add anything to my gameplay experience.

But ya, strictly tecnically speaking.. Gore is hard.

seeing little green aliens go splat is fun.

no thanks to seeing the insides of humans. there are crazy people in the world, ya know.

For a cheap and fun bloody romp check out Alien Shooter. Blow aliens to bits with a great array of weapons. Turn on the RED blood for more gore.

Alien Shooter

God of war II has some pretty cool and gorey violence :P
If youre more into 'realism' i'd suggest Postal 2, piss in gary colemans face hehe

The problem with having stuff like that is that after the first 20 or so guys you kill, you tend to stop noticing it. I think FEAR did the gore well, as most of the time when you killed someone, they went "Oww" and fell over. Occasionally a limb would fly off, or their head would part ways with their neck and you could play football with it. When such gore is less commonplace, you take more notice when it does happen and it has a greater effect.

IMO.