The Greatest Games To Include X-Ray Damage

Many video games allow and encourage you to attack a bunch of enemies. In the process, you likely kill or knock them out. The fact that they’re no longer able to fight back is a good indication that you’ve done plenty of damage. However, it’s always nice to see exactly what sort of punishment you’ve dished out.

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Some games allow this by including an X-ray feature that lets you see your victim’s bones and, sometimes, organs react to your attacks. It always makes for a cool visual and makes your hits all the most satisfying. Unfortunately, though, it’s not a feature that is in every game. However, it is in the following ones.

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Blitz: The League 2

Blitz: The League II

Systems

Released

August 18, 2008

Publisher(s)

Noviy Disk, Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs, Violence

Football is a hard-hitting sport, but it’s easy to forget that while playing the squeaky clean Madden. However, in Blitz: The League, it’s impossible to ignore how violent the sport can be. In fact, the game makes it seem even more violent.

One of the best ways it does this is through the use of X-rays. Sometimes, when someone is hit with a big tackle, the game cuts to an X-ray, showing the damage being done. You can see shoulders getting separated, necks being sprained, and even damage to the brain.

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Tenchu: Wrath Of The Dragon

Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven

Stealth

Action

Fantasy

Martial Arts

Systems

Released

March 4, 2003

ESRB

M // Blood and Gore, Violence

Tenchu: Wrath of the Dragon is a stealth game where you can play as a ninja. However, there is also another playable character who isn’t a ninja. Instead, he is an assassin named Tesshu.

Since he’s not a ninja, his fighting style is a little different. It’s a bit less slick and more brutal. The game showcases this by including X-rays when you stealth kill someone to show you the damage being done. You sometimes see necks get broken, and legs get snapped. The most brutal of all, though, is when you see Tesshu’s hands on the X-ray as they grab their victim’s heart before ripping it out.

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Zombie Army 4: Dead War

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Zombie Army 4: Dead War

Third-Person Shooter

Survival Horror

Released

February 4, 2020

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language

Zombies might be rotten and not really alive, but they still have bones and internal organs. In Zombie Army 4: Dead War, these things can also be considered targets.

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This is because it’s a third-person sniper game where you occasionally fire shots that are so impressive that you get a slow-mo shot of the bullet ripping through the target’s body. Sometimes, they break bones, while other times, the bullet destroys an organ. It gives you a bit more insight into what sort of damage you’re doing to these undead creatures.

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Death By Degrees

Death by Degrees

Action-Adventure

Beat ‘Em Up

Systems

Released

February 8, 2005

Publisher(s)

Namco

ESRB

m

Death by Degrees is an action-adventure spin-off of the Tekken series, and it stars Nina Williams. While she isn’t often presented as the strongest character in the Tekken series, she proves to be a lot stronger than regular combatants in Death by Degrees as she fights groups of enemies at once.

In the process, she uses her martial arts to dislocate and possibly break the bones of her foes. As the break occurs, you get to see a clear X-ray of what is happening.

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Dying Light

Dying Light

Open-World

Survival Horror

Released

January 27, 2015

Publisher(s)

Warner Bros. Games

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language

Dying Light is set in a post-apocalyptic world where you must use your parkour skills to get around the large zombie hordes. Yet, climbing or running away isn’t always possible. Occasionally, you need to stand your ground and fight using an array of melee weapons.

When swinging them, you sometimes land a more powerful strike, which is when the X-ray vision appears. It’s different in this game from many other titles because it doesn’t cut to a scene showing the X-ray. Instead, the X-ray just appears on the zombie’s body at the time of the impact. This means the gameplay doesn’t stop to show you what damage is happening; it just slows down for a second.

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Skate 3

Skate 3

Systems

Released

May 11, 2010

ESRB

T For Teen Due To Crude Humor, Drug Reference, Language, Mild Violence, Suggestive Themes

Usually, when X-rays are shown in games, it’s to highlight the damage you’re doing to an enemy or what they’re doing to you. In Skate 3, however, it’s about the damage you’re doing to yourself.

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In the Hall of Meat mode – or when the Hall of Meat setting is turned on – you can start to see a red skeleton appear in your body when you crash into things. It doesn’t appear all at once; it’s based on what you hit. For instance, if you damage your spine, your spine will suddenly be visible through your character. It’s just a way to keep track of which of your body parts you’ve damaged while skating.

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Mortal Kombat 10

Mortal Kombat X

Systems

Released

April 7, 2015

ESRB

M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language

Mortal Kombat has always been a violent series. Recent entries have added to this violence by including X-ray attacks, which are vicious moves that fighters can perform to do significant damage to their opponents.

Not only is that damage shown on the health bar, but the animation clearly shows how painful it is. Each one includes the fighter shattering their opponent’s bones or organs. Somehow, the fighters are often able to carry on afterward.

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Sniper Elite: Resistance

Third-Person Shooter

Action

Adventure

Systems

Released

January 30, 2025

Publisher(s)

Rebellion Entertainment

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language

When you think of X-rays in video games, Sniper Elite is likely one of the first series to come to mind. After all, X-ray kill cams are a huge part of this series. So, they, of course, feature in Sniper Elite: Resistance.

Like the previous instalments, when you fire a shot at an enemy, you will sometimes get a slow-motion kill cam that shows what the bullet you fired does to the person it hits. It’s common to see eyes obliterated, lungs destroyed, and testicles burst all because of your accurate shooting. The fact that the skeleton you see is so detailed in this game makes X-ray shots all the more satisfying.

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