ESRB has detailed in length some of the juicy "intense violence" and "nudity" featured in Quantic Dream's psychological thriller, Heavy Rain.
Listing some of the game's most extreme violence, it describes "a woman squirming and screaming as she catches on fire", and "a man impaled in the chest with a power drill". Nice.
Heavy Rain
Official trailer
9:18A "special presentation" video
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People are also seen slicing off part of their own body, although we won't be as specific as ESRB is on that because it's crawling with spoilers over there (thanks ESRB).
On the sexy side of things, it says: "Shower cutscenes may depict a male character's bare butt; if players control the female character, her breasts and buttocks are also briefly visible."
It goes on: "A more prolonged instance of nudity occurs during a female character's investigation of a seedy club owner: After getting him alone in a room, the player-character is asked to strip; at gunpoint, she dances topless in front of the man."
It also details a "prompt-based love scene" although it notes: "Actual sex is never depicted as the camera fades to black."
QD boss David Cage said recently that the game's sex scenes are "not porn", but are designed to depict "real characters having emotions and doing what adults do when they fall in love."
It got a good review, with some carefully worded summation about what to expect. Though I think everyone expected that, it's clearly going to be a marmite game for most.
I read that article, and it probably will be 18. It says so on the boxart anyway, so it is. The bit about the body part removing is in the rating article, so obvious spoilers there.
These descriptions, I think are very objective & fair. They never seem to get all morally or hysterical. Clinical, but with wry quips: "Heavy Breathing" sounds like a play off the title to me!
Am I the only person cynical enough to think that they're making such a huge fuss over this purely to increase sales of the game to 14 and 15 year old boys who have no chance of seeing the real thing for a good ten years?
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