How the God of War Grew Up

There is a scene in the PlayStation epic God of War III (2010) in which the player has no choice but to crush an innocent woman to death. Kratos, the dogged outcast of Olympus, has slaughtered his way into the bedchambers of the sea-god Poseidon. There he finds a quivering concubine, breasts heaving, and releases her from her bondage—only to drag her toward a massive wheel and chain her writhing to the spokes. Her frail body holds the wheel steady long enough to prop open the metal gates that block the way to the next stage. Progressing in the game means sending Kratos through the gates while their weight brings them lurching downward and forces the wheel to grind the victim, now off-screen, into a mangled corpse.