Video Game Cruelty Potential/Video Games/Sports Game


 * The Football Manager series (World Soccer Manager in North America) of managerial simulators gives you a fair amount of leeway to abuse any player on your team. You can bench someone, yell at him, smear him in the press, work him to death during practice, fine him a week's pay or more for any reason or no reason whenever you feel like it, and generally do everything in your power to make his life hell. Some managers even use this as a deliberate strategy to get a rid of a player they don't want on their team anymore, by trying to make him so unhappy that he'll finally agree to being traded or having his contract bought out.
 * The NFL Blitz series of football games allows many types of hits and tackles that would have players fined and suspended, at minimum, if they did them in real life. It's certainly not necessary to take the ball carrier down with a flying clothesline and then suplex him two or three times after the whistle, but if you feel like doing it, hey, have at it!
 * The Skate series. The first one had Hall of Meat, which told you how many bones you had broken. But things get amped up in Skate 2, where you have the ability to trigger bails at anytime.