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Content Descriptors: Blood, Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence

Rating Summary: This is an action-adventure game in which players primarily assume the role of Batman as he battles several villains spreading chaos across Gotham City. Players traverse a variety of locations around Gotham while battling thugs, examining crime scenes, and occasionally rescuing hostages. Players engage in melee-style combat using punches, kicks, and gadgets (e.g., batarangs, explosives). Enemies cry out in pain when struck, and some takedowns are highlighted by brief slow-motion effects and loud impact sounds. Some sequences allow players to use tank-like vehicles with machine gun turrets and rockets to shoot enemies; a vehicle’s wheels are also used to torture an enemy in one sequence. Cutscenes depict characters getting shot (on and off camera) while restrained or unarmed. Large bloodstains/pools of blood appear in crime scenes and in the aftermath of violent acts; one room depicts a person torturing a character on a bloody operating table. During the course of the game, players can shoot unarmed characters and a hostage. Neon signs in a red-light district read “live nude girls” and “XXX.” The words “b*tch,” “gobsh*te,” and “a*s” appear in the dialogue.

ESRB (via GamerCenterOnline)

Please lock if old.

 

[Kyari]

During the course of the game, players can shoot unarmed characters and a hostage

Uh .... What?

 

[matrixman92]

the fuck is gobsh*te?

 

[Lunar15]

During the course of the game, players can shoot unarmed characters and a hostage.

So, I'm guessing you get to play as a villain. Or at least someone other than Batman.

 

[kulapik]

So, I'm guessing you get to play as a villain.

Harley Quinn, isn't it?

 

[Soulflarz]

^This is the batman we never knew!

 

[Souldestroyer Reborn]

the fuck is gobsh*te?

It's a British thing

 

[Night Angel]

the fuck is gobsh*te?

Must be a villain from Britain.

 

[GamerJM]

So, I'm guessing you get to play as a villain. Or at least someone other than Batman.

I mean, you can shoot people in Batman on the Game Boy.

 

[massoluk]

a vehicle’s wheels are also used to torture an enemy in one sequence.

Uh.... I hope the enemy has some kind of invulnerability. This sounds extreme even for the god damn Batman..

 

[MMarston]

So, I'm guessing you get to play as a villain. Or at least someone other than Batman.

Joker confirmed.

Spoiler

(I hope that stays a joke)

 

[Dsyndrome]

That warrants an M rating?

 

[BY2K]

The hell is gobsh*te?

Also,

During the course of the game, players can shoot unarmed characters and a hostage.

Do you get to play AS the Arkham Knight? Or maybe Red Hood?

 

[maneil99]

Always thought the whole "can't kill anyone" thing was fucking dumb. Oh let me paralyze you and break every bone in your body but god forbid you die.

 

[RPGamer92]

Uh .... What?

Bats finally decides he's had it and goes pow pow on Gotham's villains. It's the perfect plan, they'd never expect it from him then pow!

 

[Soulflarz]

Always thought the whole "can't kill anyone" thing was fucking dumb. Oh let me paralyze you and break every bone in your body but god forbid you die.

You forgot hanging them from buildings and cutting the wire, shoving them off buildings, etc.
Literally, as long as you didnt *directly* see your murder, your morally fine in that game.

 

[iosefe]

Must be a villain from Britain.

it's totally Mad Mod

 

[FyreWulff]

til people have never heard the word gobshite

 

[Coffee Dog]

Can't you play as both Harley Quinn and Red Hood from pre orders? Is preorder DLC typically included in ratings like these?

 

[BasilZero]

Uh .... What?

Batman becoming evil grants a M rating.

 

[SerTapTap]

That warrants an M rating?

Sounds like a hard M to me. Torturing someone with a car, presumably the battank, bloody operating table torture, hurting innocent people. GTA3 did less than that...

 

[bomblord1]

That warrants an M rating?

Yeeees?

vehicle’s wheels are also used to torture an enemy in one sequence. Cutscenes depict characters getting shot (on and off camera) while restrained or unarmed. Large bloodstains/pools of blood appear in crime scenes and in the aftermath of violent acts; one room depicts a person torturing a character on a bloody operating table. During the course of the game, players can shoot unarmed characters and a hostage.

 

[pa22word]

Gobshite just sounds like a penguin word. Guess that means he's back for round 2, then.

 

[Shaanyboi]

The hell is gobsh*te?

Also,



Do you get to play AS the Arkham Knight? Or maybe Red Hood?

 

[Zukuu]

Must be a villain from Britain.

Cobblepot most likely.

 

[Lunar15]

My guess is that you'd play as the Arkham Knight.

EDIT: Or Red Hood, apparently.

 

[Coffee Dog]

Gobshite just means Penguin is back, guys.

 

[Naked Prime]

Preorder dlc pretty much guaranteed an M rating last year when it was announced

 

[JigglesBunny]

During the course of the game, players can shoot unarmed characters and a hostage.

...a vehicle’s wheels are also used to torture an enemy in one sequence.

Jeez man, Batman is fuckin' metal.

 

[……forgetit]

That warrants an M rating?

If that doesn't what does?

 

[BeatResetsTheWorld]

Miller would be proud at the edginess

 

[flaxknuckles]

Jeez man, Batman's fucking metal.

Doesn't mean it's Batman

 

[Chance Hale]

I hope it's like the Dark Knight Strikes Again where Batman just gets people to kill for him Although shooting people with a tank seems to be stretching the already thin line of plausibility for his pacifism.

 

[JigglesBunny]

Doesn't mean it's Batman

I know, I'm just joking around.

Spoiler

But what if it actually was?

 

[exmachina64]

Bats finally decides he's had it and goes pow pow on Gotham's villains. It's the perfect plan, they'd never expect it from him then pow!

When he's confronted by Alfred and the Bat Family, he quotes Lucius Lyon before

Spoiler

killing them. Did you think I'd put something else in spoilers?

 

[Savitar]

I almost decided to make a remark about how Batman first appeared and did use a gun for a number of issues.

But then I decided to make a remark about a remark about how Batman first appeared and did use a gun for a number of issues.

Because.

 

[Kazuhira]

Maybe it´s about using the batmobile to shoot random thugs in the city.
I´m pretty sure i saw that in the last trailer.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Well


At least it's not for an implied rape like I expected

 

[Shaanyboi]

Well


At least it's not for an implied rape like I expected

wat

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

You probably play as the Arkham Knight for a small bit.

Spoiler

I can imagine a scene where Two Face is holding up hostages and they witness what looks like Batman coming to save them, but it turns out to be the Arkham Knight and then the game lets you control him and it's up to you to decide their fate.

The rest just sounds like this game is gonna get grimy as hell.

 

[JazzmanZ]

seems to me these games are getting increasingly more violent as they release.

 

[Shaanyboi]

seems to me these games are getting increasingly more violent as they release.

...should they have done the opposite?

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

the fuck is gobsh*te?

Penguin.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Well


At least it's not for an implied rape like I expected

Huh? Why would you be expecting that?

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Well


At least it's not for an implied rape like I expected

You almost sound disappointed

 

[JazzmanZ]

...should they have done the opposite?

A Lighter and campier Batman game with the arkham combat system would be delightful.

 

[Plinko]

I've got to be honest--I'm not seeing much difference between this and Arkham Origins when it comes to violence.

 

[BY2K]

Huh? Why would you be expecting that?

Lords of Shadow 2 did it.

Well, it wasn't rape, but it sure caused a stir when one journalist compared that one scene to it.

 

[Big_Al]

A Lighter and campier Batman game with the arkham combat system would be delightful.

Only if Adam West voices Batman.

 

[Marcel]

A Lighter and campier Batman game with the arkham combat system would be delightful.

I would pay big money for Adam West 60s Batman game with Arkham gameplay. Joyless Batman might be the canon at this point in time but I'm pretty worn out by it personally.