The Nicest Badass Video Game Characters

Sleeping Dogs has players take on the role of an undercover police officer Wei Shen as he rises through the ranks of the Sun On Yee Triad and destroys it from the inside out. Players can explore the world after missions and do different activities like side quests. Shen can level up by gaining three different kinds of experience points, Triad Face and Pol


The faster we approach its one-year anniversary, the less we even hear about the game. False reports of a story DLC made fans excited, though still very little attention was drawn to the game. It's ironic to see more news and excitement surrounding DLC content for GTA Online than any of Red Dead 's updates, which tend to get mocked and ignored. What happened? You would think a game ripe with fantastic graphics, awesome gameplay, and a spellbinding narrative would be enough for players to be immersed, yet it appears this very immersion is what has elicited so much―or, should I say, so little—backl


The Yakuza game franchise revolves around, as anyone could guess, a member of the Japanese crime syndicate. Yakuza 0 is a prequel to the first game community and follows the series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima as they found themselves involved in an incident that involves all of Japan's criminal organizati


Lenny happens to be one of the few members of the Van Der Linde gang that doesn't get a nickname of any sort. Many of the other members either have names that they earned through crime or deeds, but Lenny never really obtains one at any point in the g

Ion Fury is a blast from the past: a retro-styled FPS with fast action and extreme violence. However, it also brings back another element from those old school shooters, which is the return of the foul-mouthed, rather mean-spirited protagonist. Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison is cut from the same cloth as heroes like Duke Nukem, and while they definitely can be pretty awesome, they're not necessarily the type of people you'd actually want to hang out with after they saved your lives. Hanging out with these kinds of heroes seems like a chore, as all they'll want to talk about is how cool they were then they blew up that alien spaceship, and their idea of humor is repeating the same Bruce Campbell quotes over and over.


Not much is known about what happened to his mother, but his father was killed by a group of men. It's unclear whether or not his father's death was a result of a hate crime, but the fallout led a young boy down a path of revenge and anger. A sad turn considering his father wanted him to be a law


Heralded as one of the best video game stories of all time, Red Dead Redemption 2 takes you down a path of hardship, one that is unrelenting and pockmarked with violence. While your choices in the game may amount to nothing more than a morality meter, this doesn't quite affect the overall playthrough. And, with a variety of stranger missions and side quests to follow, there's still nothing more memorable than the experiences bequeathed in the original. One of the most fascinating mechanics in Red Dead Redemption 2 are random events, wherein the player can choose to assist an ailing passerby or ignore them. This, however, becomes a consistent nuisance as you travel throughout the wide-open sandbox. It's almost as if the game itself is trying to pry you away from your own experience at every t


Now that the gang's all but abandoned and she's not connected to any of their wrongdoings she was able to pursue anything she liked. The role of a bounty hunter came naturally to her and because of her blemish-free record, she has a lot of trust from the authorit


Funny enough his name became a meme thanks in large part to the mission where he and Arthur end up getting drunk at a saloon. Arthur calls out to Lenny and yells his name over and over again in hopes of finding his nickname-less bu


The Hitman game franchise features Agent 47, an international contract assassin for works for the International Contract Agency or ICA. Agent 47 eliminates high profile criminals for powerful and wealthy clients. The main focus of the game is to take out assigned targets. The game ranks the players on the way they accomplish the assassination and even rewards them with items and cash bonu

He shares a name which an ancient Jewish prophet from Israel, so there's a solid chance that Hosea grew up in a household which practiced the Jewish faith, but as he got older he converted over to Catholic


Triad levels up when he commits violent acts, Face levels up during civilian side missions, and Police levels up when he minimizes the damage done to properties, civilians and during police side que


This happened around a year before the events of the game take place which helps give the gang an interesting dynamic. Players get to see what it's like to play as a veteran of the group in Arthur and interact with someone who's a recent addition trying to earn trust and loya