Gerucht: Volgende rating voor onaangekondigde BioShock: The Collection

Nog altijd houdt uitgever 2K Games de lippen stijf op elkaar betreft BioShock: The Collection. In februari dook reeds een beoordeling op van The Brazil Advisory Rating. Vervolgens volgde Taiwan Game Software Rating Regulations Board met onderstaande afbeelding. Nu is het de beurt aan de Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) met de volgende beschrijving:

This is a collection of three first-person shooters in which players assume the role of characters uncovering the mysteries behind the dystopian societies of Rapture and Columbia. As players explore each city, they use shotguns, machine guns, rivet guns, and rocket launchers to kill mutated citizens and enemy soldiers. Players can also use special powers (e.g., telekinesis, fire blasts, electric bolts) to kill enemies as well as a three-pronged hook to dismember and decapitate them. Large blood-splatter effects occur as enemies are injured; pools of blood can be seen around corpses.

Cutscenes also depict intense acts of violence: characters shot in the head at close range; a woman smothered to death with a pillow; a man impaled by a drill; a character nearly lobotomized with surgical tools. The game references sexual material in the dialogue (e.g., I think yeh gave me the clap, ya dirty boy, Gonorrhea! That's what you'll get, and Sexual intimacy is no different from any other commodity friend. You sell soybeans I sell companionship.).

During the course of the game, players can consume alcoholic beverages, resulting in a screen-blurring effect; a handful of scenes depict children smoking cigarettes. The social/political backdrop of one fictional city (set in the year 1912) includes the use of derogatory ethnic/racial terms (e.g., the words gook, chink, negroes, injuns, crackers); language such as f**k, sh*t, and c*nt can also be heard.

Toch zwijgt 2K Games als een graf. Wat mij betreft nergens voor nodig en mag BioShock: The Collection met veel bombarie worden aangekondigd. Wat vind jij?

Bron: Gematsu