I like they did it with Max Payne, Positive player for sex have sat with big car thief V and he played it as peacefully as possible, keeping the murders to the absolute minimum necessary to advance in history. And it’s still one a lot of murder.
726, to be precise, most of them as part of missions where the goal is simply to kill the XX number of bad guys, or certain targets, before it is counted as completed. They never ran over a single pedestrian or provoked any police chase and tried several missions with reappeared enemies to find the fastest possible way to complete them.
There are 172 dead playing as Michael, 295 as Franklin and “only” 258 as the murderous maniac Trevor Philips, with one final death as a collaboration between all three at the end of the game (canon) main story mission.
If you want to check out their handicrafts, all 726 are cataloged in the 13-minute video below.