
Depending on the player's actions, Piro can either fight and kill God, or avoid the fight and escape the afterlife. Piro massacres the event's reception, and dies shortly thereafter he then falls into the afterlife to be judged by God, who is depicted as a short-tempered, foul-mouthed man adorned with cultist robes.

Embittered over the rise of Christianity, Piro embarks on a killing spree, with his first target being the church hosting his grandparents' silver wedding anniversary. The protagonist of Grezzo 2 is Piro, a pagan farmer from Perugia, Italy. Occasionally, the player fights powerful " boss" enemies representing prominent figures of Christianity, such as Pope John Paul II, Jesus Christ, and God. Regardless of their lethality, the player is often required to slaughter through large amounts of NPCs in order to progress. Grezzo 2 contains an equally exhaustive amount of NPCs pulled from various games and modifications, such as the innocent bystanders from Carmageddon and the Cabal cultists from Blood. The game contains an exhaustive variety of weapons, many of which are taken from other Doom mods such weapons include beer bottles, plasma rifles, crucifix launchers, and the "Lanciaratzinger", a powerful cannon which launches digitized sprites of Pope Benedict XVI. Much like Doom, the gameplay of Grezzo 2 requires the player to navigate to the exit of each level while surviving various hazards on the way. Many well-known personalities of the culture of Italy appear in the game, as well as references to extremely satirized social, political and religious issues of the country.įollowing the 2012 release, Grezzo 2 received significant attention, both inside and outside of its country of origin, due to its extremely blasphemous, vulgar and violent content. Gameplay requires the player to face various levels, defeating enemies and bosses and using a wide range of weapons. The plot follows the adventure of pagan farmer Piro which, annoyed and disgusted by Christianity, plans to kill Jesus Christ to prevent the rise of his religious phenomenon. The game is a total conversion modification of the 1993 video game Doom and its development began in the early 2000s, with the version called Grezzo 1, when Nicola Piro attended high school. Grezzo 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Italian game designer Nicola Piro and released in 2012. Grezzo 2 cover artwork, featuring caricatures of Pope Benedict XVI and other Italian pop culture icons
