Haven't really looked at a MK game in years. Yes, they are quite over the top. FPS games that advertised violence like Soldier of Fortune I and II were never really followed up on and seem to have died off as a sub-genre within FPS. There are still the 3rd person games like Tomb Raider and Dead Space that have all the over-the-top player deaths. Not sure what the first game to start doing would've been, but it seems odd. I wonder why Battlefield and COD and some of the super popular games don't have much in the way of blood? They seem to have traded blood/gore for tons of cursing....games never used to have cursing, except Kingpin Life of Crime.

>t. old enough to play picrel when released