It’s no exaggeration to say that the opening hour of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival has some of the most gruesome sights I have ever seen in a video game.
Games have regularly pushed the boundaries of ultra violence, including Mortal Kombat’s fatalities and the grisly cycle of violence depicted in The Last of Us Part 2. But the graphic content depicted in Saber Interactive’s twisted adaptation of the infamous horror series is on another level, committing itself to be as true to the British author and director’s original nightmarish creation as possible, and completely unfiltered.
This means you’re not just coming across a brutally mutilated corpse without actually seeing how they met their horrible demise. A woman’s mouth is pulled with a hook while more dig into her bare skin before her whole back is opened up. A nail is hammered through a man’s hand and into the arm of a chair, which he’s also pinned to with stitches from his stomach. Even the leftover body parts of victims are not just left as idle backdrops but something you will need to reach into and interact with.