Drug references, strong language, violence and muscle-bound, bikini-clad lady villains bench pressing other muscle-bound, bikini-clad ladies feature throughout.
Welcome to a special series of VideoGamer.com's Top 10, where they bring you the essential genre by genre video game buyers' guide for Christmas and New Year. It'll run every Thursday until the end of the 2007/2008 holiday break, so, whether you're looking for some family video game ideas to get you through those boring Christmas get-togethers or some top sports games to spend that holiday cash on, look no further than VideoGamer.com. In the sixth of the series, they look at the Top 10 Action Games.
The thing about avenging your father's death, as with most things in life, is that it's never quite as straightforward as you imagine. If it were, then your typical revenge film would last but a few minutes – find the guy responsible, throw him in an industrial shredder – rather than the two hours they tend to run at.
In the case of Chili Con Carnage, you should expect your vengeance to take you a few hours more than that. It'll be sweeter, too, and funnier than 'avenge dad' might look on paper.
As Ram, a hot blooded latino who's just had the trauma-inducing (if not entirely humourless) experience of watching his papa's demise at the blades of a combine harvester, you set off on a killing spree that bounces you from one crime lord to the next in search for the one ultimately responsible.
Seconds after entering his policeman father's office at the Policia Federales building somewhere in Mexico, Ramiro Cruz's father is murdered by a madman driving, of all things, a harvesting combine. Ram immediately vows to avenge his father and hunt down the murderer, and thus begins the over-the-top Mexican revenge movie disguised as a handheld game for the PlayStation Portable, Chili Con Carnage. Gamespot recently spent some time with this fast-paced, easy-playing game, and loved every minute of it.
