15 Most Controversial Video Games - RapeLay (PICTURES)

Increasingly realistic and widespread, video games have repeatedly become embroiled in hot-button controversies over issues of sex, race, religion, politics, and violence.

Video game critics have decried the more explicit, violent games as everything from "Columbine simulators" to promoters of "religious bigotry and intolerance."

We've taken a look at the most controversial video games ever. Check them out below, and tell us which one you think was the most inappropriate.

RapeLay (2 of 16)

RapeLay is a "realistic sexual simulator"Japanese video game where the player takes on the role of a rapist who stalks and rapes girls in a number of explicit situations, with the ultimate goal of making them his sex slaves. The player's target is a mother and her two daughters. The game is not sold in America and is no longer available on the Japanese developer's website.

Mass Effect

An optional "sexual encounter" in Mass Effect sparked outrage: Conservative blogger Kevin McCullough alleged players were allowed to rape and sodomize characters in whatever way they wanted. Fox News picked up the story on a segment called "SE'XBOX" and claimed the scene involved full on pornographic sex. Psychologist and author Cooper Lawrence claimed the game objectified women and allowed the player to be with as many women as he wanted. However, Electronic Arts, the maker of the game, responded saying that Fox's story contained "serious errors," and some who had spoken out against the game later retracted their criticisms. played the game

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (14)

The Grand Theft Auto series has sparked controversy, criticism, and even lawsuits for its violence, sexual content, and graphic imagery. The 2008 and 2009 version of the Gamer's Edition of the Guinness World Records listed it the 'most controversial videogame series in history, with over 4,000 articles published about it, which include accusations of glamorizing violence, corrupting gamers, and connection to real life crimes.' The Hot Coffee mod (shown here) allowed players of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to engage in a 'minigame' in which the main character and his girlfriend are shown having sexual intercourse

The 15 Most Controversial Video Games (PICTURES)

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