Gaming's best anti-hero teams, ranked

Everyone loves being a hero, but sometimes it's fun to be a little badass. Here comes the anti-heroes. A flawed person in the right place can turn them into the hero of the story. The games below go a step further and involve their entire team fighting against the odds.

Some of these teams have redeeming qualities that show them as complex characters who do their best in an evil world while battling their own personal demons. Other times they are just completely bad people who could easily be the villain of someone's story if the players were following someone else's point of view.

7

Suicide Squad

Task Force X kills the evil Justice League in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

A lot of negativity is brought up Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Much of it is focused on repetitive gameplay and comparisons designed around a live-service model. Arkham games with which it shares continuity. It's a shame the game went this route, as the nuggets of goodness are evident in some of the cutscenes.

Controlling Suicide Squad Having them take out the members of the Justice League is a great idea and a nice subversion of expectations as the next step. Arkham the universe. Tim's personality shines through in many movies. It's a shame it's wrapped in a live-service title.

There's nothing wrong with live-service games, but what many fans of story-based single-player don't do. Arkham Games wanted for monitoring.

6

3rd Street Saints

The Gang of Saints excel at taking over cities and toppling alien empires

The saint row Games developed from a grand theft autoInfluenced the open-world game into a fun spectacle that parodies games and pop culture with endearing low-brow humor. At the center of it all were the titular Saints, a gang that made their way to the White House by dirt road.

The Saints in the first two games, with a player-created protagonist, are more ruthless and unforgiving. The third part takes the series to an exaggerated reality and adds a lot of humor to the criminal entrepreneur, and leads to the fourth game, where players are a literal US president who kills aliens. Yes, it's safe to assume these are good people.

5

Party of Tav

The tadpole-infested ragtag adventure of Baldur's Gate 3

With a flexible story Baldur's Gate 3The party can go in a completely heroic direction or go completely evil mad. This RPG is smarter than most games, though, and many of the choices fall into story gray areas that often don't turn the party leader and the rest of the team into antiheroes.

Many of the characters individually have traits common to antiheroes. Lae'zel is from a fierce race of disciplined and unyielding warriors, Astarion is a reluctant vampire with the typical urge of mythical creatures, and Shadowheart worships a dark goddess.

Even though it was the third game of the series Baldur's Gate 3 Can be played as a standalone title without confusing newcomers.

4

Kane and Lynch

Grimy killers of the criminal underworld for two dead men in the dog days

The title characters of these two games are brutal criminals with zero redeeming qualities morally and socially. They are the stars, though, and players control them as they shoot their way through the criminal underworld, indiscriminately leaving a trail of bodies in their wake.

Lynch is also clearly dealing with acute psychological issues. While the gameplay is outdated, they are still interesting to play due to their unwavering dedication to the hero's brutality and incompetence. Both games are fully playable in co-op.

sequel, 2 dog daysAn unseen camera crew plays as if filming the two characters. There is a filter to make it look like the camcorder is recording and the boom mic looks like the audio is being picked up. This adds to the creepy aesthetic of the game but also adds distraction to the players.

3

Franklin, Trevor and Michael

Grand Theft Auto 5's trio of Hastings protagonists have their good days and bad days.

The fifth mainline game in this legendary series introduces the mechanic of having multiple heroes. Each of them is involved in a life of crime, but for different reasons and at different stages. Franklin is looking for a better station in life, Michael is looking for meaning and purpose to escape his comfortable but boring life in the witness protection program, and Trevor is just a psychopath.

They deal with all kinds of criminals during the story. What separates the trio from many other gangsters, both street and corporate, is their honesty. A character like Devin Weston is a greedy backstabber while the FIB goes down as a hero but tries to justify it in the name of the greater good. Anti-heroes are not trying to show that they are better than everyone else.

2

Vault hunters

Borderlands vault hunters do some bad and little good with an abundance of loot

Each group of mers border area The games can be considered somewhat anti-heroes. Playable characters, even by this standard The pre-sequel Stand out as particularly worthy of this list. Here the Vault Hunters are sent to Pandora's moon on the orders of Jack, who eventually becomes known as Handsome Jack, the villain. Border 2.

Yet greed is at the center The pre-sequel story, the characters still do some heroic things, like stopping the moon from blowing up to smithereens. There are six characters to choose from, including DLC ​​like Atlas Corporation assassin Athena and Jack's doppelganger.

1

The van der Linde gang

Red Dead Redemption 2's gang of outlaws rob and kill, sometimes for better or worse

How complicated it is Red Dead Redemption 2's The story unfolds. The van der Linde gang is a rag-tag group of bank robbers fleeing modernity on the fringes of society. Over the course of the story, the gang slowly fades away with some characters emerging as villains.

However, some stay by Arthur Morgan's side right to the end, so some glimpse of the anti-hero gang lasts until the epilogue. At first, the van der Linde gang feels like the romanticized outlaws often portrayed in the media about the Wild West.