You're a BASTARD! - The 10 most villainous games ever

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The lesser of two evils is for chumps - why settle for an anti-hero when you can be a straight-up villain?

1. Black & White
2001 | PC

You are: A god charged with caring for a civilization of absolute nitwits who probably couldn't even wipe their own asses without your divine intervention.

What's your deal? As a god created from a single cry for help, you'll need to keep your followers believing in you by impressing them constantly. You can do this the nice way, or you can destroy their homes with boulders and fire and send giant animals stomping around to terrify them.

Moral justification: If you normally like being a good guy, Black & White will test your patience like never before, as your worshippers pepper you with constant demands for help with their asinine problems. It's almost like the game's begging you to smack them around.

Defining act of villainy: Being asked to rescue some men drowning at sea, and instead finding them, dragging them back to land and hurling them all off a cliff to their deaths. And then doing the same to the woman who asked for your help in the first place, just for good measure.

Worst thing you can do: Slap your doe-eyed giant-animal sidekick around until he's been trained to eat nothing but people and his own poop.

How evil? The most evil creature imaginable - but hey, your followers should have thought about that before they started whining to you about every little thing.

Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.