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Action games where you don't have to kill?
Klorgnum
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I was playing Mirror's Edge last night and thinking about how much I enjoyed getting around the cops instead of directly engaging them and being able to disarm them instead of having an extended fight. It got me wondering, what are some other action-y games where you don't have to (or can't) kill the enemies?
Just to take care of the obvious, I already know of:
Iji
Deus Ex
Thief
Arkham Asylum
Just to take care of the obvious, I already know of:
Iji
Deus Ex
Thief
Arkham Asylum
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The old one where you play a police officer, not the PS2 one.
Make sure to get the PC version.
Edit to elaborate: The definitive non-lethal takedown experience.
pepper spray?..........Check
taser gun?...............Check
beanbag shotgun?............Check
pepper paintball gun?...........Check
stinger, flashbang and gas grenades?.......Check
yell in their faces and hit'em in the ribs with the butt of your rifle?............Check and Check
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Kinda
Sly cooper?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Actually, yeah, this.
You only have to kill the targets of each mission; everyone else in the way can be knocked out/tranquilised, and you get a better "rating" for being stealthy and only nabbing the targets.
(Disclaimer: I've only played Blood Money, so I'm not sure how it goes in the others. Worth checking out, though.)
you still have to kill your targets but you can do it without killing anyone else or even having them know your there, so awesome.
edit: i should read more, but yeah its like that in all the others, even the first one i think but it was much harder to do, i managed to get silent assassian rating in every mission of hitman2, it was fucking insane.
And while you may not kill people in Arkham Asylum, you've certainly ruined some lives. That goon who you strangled into unconsciousness is going to be very paralyzed for the rest of his life once his body hits the ground 100 feet later.
You must have posted the instant I started reading the tread.
So that version of the game doesn't have you kill anyone per se, because the zombies are already dead.
not true with 2 apart from the last mission which isn't really a mission just like in 3 and 4
1 maybe more then others.
From a random cheat code site:
And I think you can give them a ton of HP (through the pedestrian script) so they're essentially invulnerable.
That can be enabled with the -german command line switch (according to a random website, but it makes sense).
[1]The code to enable cheats is "lapmylovepump." The people who made this game are still among my favorite.
In 1 there are no non lethal takedowns, if someone walks in on you the only option you have is to shoot them. I think the only balls out action section is the last level, which is more of a puzzle to find a sufficiently boss weapon. The *spit*second game had a ranking system that encouraged you not to kill people but the level design did not sufficiently support it and this added feature was balanced out by the fact that it was the worst game in the history of time.
You couldn't be more wrong.
Besides worst game in the history of time award goes to Shadowman 2.
Anyway, the older SWAT games also encouraged arrests over killing people and are fairly good if you have patience to play them that way.
Commandos games as well, particularly Commandos 2 (with the added feature to knock anyone out and tie them up), apart from specific targets that you are tasked with killing. Most missions are about blowing pieces of equipment up though, I recall only one mission where you are tasked with an assassination.
Ok, you do kill in the game most levels but some you have to either disable the enemy through non-lethal weapons or avoid detection all together.
Some other Rainbow Six games have this as well, just mentioning Rogue Spear because it was my favorite of the bunch.
Rogue Spear is great, especially if you play co-op. It is the best co-op game ever.
I'm willing to accept that as a hypothetical in the same way that I am willing to accept the possibility of time travel. A game that's worse than Hitman 2 is something that I can only see existing in science fiction novels.
E.T. for the Atari 2600.
Croc 2 PSone
Can you do a no killing run of oblivion or morrowind?
That said, I really want something made with the U3 engine that would let me go non-lethal.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Mirror's Edge and Arkham Asylum are both U3 games.
You have to kill final bosses, and kill people in the assassin's guilds.
*beats Shadowfire with a big stick*
EDIT: All the arcade kart racers are pretty action-y. Mario Kart, Crash Bandicoot, Micro Machines. I would count those in with the list.
Unless you don't suck
Save that one part where you swing from the rafters, beating the game without guns is incredibly easy.
I'm pretty sure Mirror's Edge uses Dice's proprietary engine.
Edit: I was wrong. But they do have a "specially developed lighting solution".
Does Pac-Man kill the ghosts he devours?
You crazy? Hitman 2 was a great game and clearly better than the original in every way.