Mon, Jan 18, 2010 | 08:24 GMT
ESRB details Heavy Rain sex scenes, “intense” violent scene described
The ESRB has detailed why Heavy Rain got its M rating.
Beware. Spoilers abound as it details what kind of sex scenes to expect, and mentions a “most intense” violent scene.
The US ratings board said on the sex scenes:
“Shower cutscenes may depict a male character’s bare butt; if players control the female character, her breasts and buttocks are also briefly visible. 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.
The game also contains a prompt-based love scene (kissing and rubbing) in which players match on-screen cues to angle characters’ mouths, remove shirts and blouses, unhook bras, and lower to the floor; a woman briefly appears topless amidst the dark shadows and heavy breathing—actual sex is never depicted as the camera fades to black.”
The listing also makes mention of an “most intense” violent scene involving co-main character Ethan Mars.
“The most intense instance of violence occurs during a “lizard trial” sequence in which players’ character, Ethan, is forced to cut off a segment of his own finger to save his son’s life: Several instruments (saw, scissors, knife, etc.) can be used to remove the finger; and though the camera pans away from the actual dismemberment—instead the blade, the blood, the scream—the scene’s poring focus on Ethan’s psychological tenor/terror (the dread deliberation before the cut) may be unnerving for some.”
Ouch, etc.
Heavy Rain releases on February 23 in the US, and February 26 in the UK for PS3.
A pre-release demo is on the way, SCEE told us a while back.
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20 comments
#1
Blerk
18/01/10, 8:57 am
Sex scenes sound a bit tame.
#2
Patrick Garratt
18/01/10, 9:00 am
#3
Patrick Garratt
18/01/10, 9:01 am
I find it ridiculous that we don’t have explicit sex scenes in mainstream games. I mean, seriously.
#4
Blerk
18/01/10, 9:05 am
The Ballad of Gay Tony is the closest we have. Some of the sex scenes there had me literally WTFing they were so unexpectedly…. not faded to black.
#5
evilashchris
18/01/10, 9:06 am
I demand more bumming in games.
#6
kdogg
18/01/10, 9:11 am
dammit now I’m going to have to try find a real girlfriend…
#7
pleasant_cabbage
18/01/10, 9:47 am
Enforced stripping? More needless, juvenile, sex from the lads that wish games were more adult themed. ppptf.
#8
sennasnit
18/01/10, 10:10 am
Got GoW Chains of Olympus, had my first bit of PSP sex yesterday, took me about 10 goes to get it right, just like real life
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#9
Doc Robotnik
18/01/10, 11:03 am
I don’t really see the need for explicit sex in videogames… yet.
Most game storylines and scripts are too poor to justify the violence, let alone explicit sex.
Let’s work on giving games some credibility by delivering better stories and experiences, then we can worry about shoehorning the porn in, eh?
#10
Eregol
18/01/10, 12:34 pm
Must cut off own finger.
#11
Johnny Cullen
18/01/10, 12:59 pm
I get the chills thinking about that scene. :s
#12
OlderGamer
18/01/10, 1:37 pm
I agree with Doc 100%.
I have always found it amazing that the more they go a Mature themed game, the more they turn away Mature gamers. I can’t see anyone over 25 yrs old looking at the sex in a game thinking that because of it, they will now buy the game. Because without the sex in the game, they wouldn’t have bought it.
I think its more mature to look at this content and say “meh” then it is to look at said content and say “Whoa cool, I am owning that!”
I could write a book on stuff like this, but I won’t. Heavy Rain isn’t the only game that goes for the sex or over the top violence. I just feel it isn’t needed, and it turns me off to the game.
#13
Eregol
18/01/10, 1:41 pm
I guess it needs to be tastefully done, and completely in keeping with the story that is being told.
To be tastefully done though, surely being in a videogame in the first place is detrimental to that thought.
Watching 2 bunches of polygons writh against each other is hardly tasteful.
#14
Gekidami
18/01/10, 1:41 pm
Apparently the game dosnt feature any sex though, it fades out before.
#15
OlderGamer
18/01/10, 1:56 pm
I was speaking in generalzations.
In all honestly HR doesn’t apeal to me at all anyways.
#16
NoxNoctisUmbra
18/01/10, 4:26 pm
So yo just see naked breasts, nothing out of the ordinary.
#17
Eregol
18/01/10, 4:30 pm
I think you’ll find they are fake breasts.
That isn’t ordinary.
#18
Gekidami
18/01/10, 4:41 pm
I hear fake boobies are pretty ordinary in some places. Mainly in the US.
#19
Blerk
18/01/10, 4:46 pm
Fake boobies are easily the worst thing ever invented by man. Ever. Even worse than the atom bomb. And X-Factor.
#20
Eregol
18/01/10, 4:56 pm
@Geki
Because a woman with Silicone in her chest is really ordinary?
Granted, maybe in the Daily Sport.
But I agree with Blerk. They always look horrendous.