Borderlands 2 Goes Gold, ESRB Rating Revealed
-
Category: News ArchiveHits: 1784
Borderlands 2 is now GOLD (360, PS3 EU, PS3 NA, Win PC)! PSN, PS3 JP + others imminent. Official statement to come when all ballots are in.
And by the customary ESRB rating. Unsurprisingly, the FPS/RPG gets an 'M' rating, in large part due to "intense acts of violence":
This is a first-person shooter in which players join rebel forces to take down an oppressive corporation on the fictional planet of Pandora. As players explore open-world environments, they complete missions to gain experience and increase their characters' skills/abilities. Players use machine guns, sniper rifles, flamethrowers, explosives, and weaponized vehicles to kill human-like characters and hostile aliens in frequent combat. Firefights contain realistic gunfire/explosions; injured enemies scream and emit exaggerated splashes of blood. Various weapons result in dismembered limbs or bloody gibs. Some missions depict intense acts of violence: viewing characters getting electrocuted; shooting a man in the face; killing players' incinerating a cult member as part of a ritual sacrifice. The dialogue contains jokes/one-liners that reference sexual material (e.g., (I will hang myself from my own tombstone if in you I can't put my bone,) (If there's anything they love more than getting to second base with their sisters, it's cars,) (Bacon is for sycophants and products of incest.)); during some sequences, players can find and collect adult-themed magazines though no actual nudity is depicted. One mission requires players to consume three alcoholic beverages from a bar before they can progress. The words (sh*t,) (p*ssies,) and (a*shole) can be heard in the dialogue, in addition to language censored by audible bleeps (e.g., (God-[bleep]-ing-dammit)).
Thanks VG247.
