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Remedy’s long awaited atmospheric thriller Alan Wake will finally see the light of day in a few months, and, like a lot of people, I honestly can’t wait to get my hands of it. (As you’d expect, I kind of hate Andrew Pfister just a little bit since he had the chance to check out the game for a recent preview, which you can read right here.)
And while I’m expecting the game to be an intense and terrifying experience, I wasn’t expecting to hear Microsoft announce today that the game actually received a T rating from the ESRB.
For a game heavily inspired by Stephen King and David Lynch, I was preparing for a solid bit of skillfully handled mature content from Mr. Wake, a best-selling thriller-writing novelist. Don't get me wrong. I still think the game is going to be intense and terrifying as hell (after all terror isn’t about gore), but it’s still a little surprising to hear.
Plus, a Mature rating doesn’t necessarily just mean tons of bloody violence. Heavy Rain is a testament to that. So it’s going to be very interesting to see what Remedy has done within the “limitations” of a T rating, besides probably sell a lot more copies than they would had the game carried an M rating.
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teraMEL0S
As far as I am concerned, a good game is a good game. Judging a book by its cover never really serves individuals well. I play games of all shapes and sizes per se, across all platforms. As long as entertainment does its main job of entertaining, I can appreciate that. To negatively criticize or speculate about a video game due to its rating is foolish in this sense. Especially with regards to sales. There's a difference between the rating of a game in general, compared to the content of the game, literally. If this game can deliver that intense psychological, action thriller experience it is being promised as, you will have been well served. I can't really remember a game title that suffered from being rated below a M for mature rating. Usually, younger gamers who aren't as lucky as some of you, complain that their parents simply won't approve of purchasing such games.
JAECE
i cant even remember the last game i wanted to play or interested in that had a T for teen rating. i guess the rating systems getting a little different.
ProjektX13
cool?
SpigotBlister
I think Heavy Rain will be getting an M rating for language and sexual themes - not to mention the whole "cut off your finger" bit, which it kind of needs to maintain the atmosphere of the game. Alan Wake doesn't seem like it will need that and I'm glad that it seems they won't be going with pure guts and gore. Anyone can make a disturbing gore-fest like Hostel, but to creep the hell out of people without the use of guts and gore.... now that's storytelling at its finest.
randomamber
Personally, I believe that the rating system is in serious need of an update. How in the world a game as mild as anything in the Halo series could warrant an M rating is beyond me.
Busymandan
To DuskMaster You must be proud of yourself for lying to your parents. They must really be proud of you.
DuskMaster22
I don't know that they will sell any more copies with a T rating, I'm not allowed to get M games, so I just put my xbox upstairs and say that any fps I'm playing if my parents look is Battlefield: Bad Company. Even though I not allowed to get M games it doesn't stop me at all. In actuality I think the T rating will actually hurt them because the demographic they're appealing to is all hardcore gamers and horror fans, all of whom can either purchase M games themselves, are allowed to by their parents, or find ways around their parents, like me. Many of the hardcore fans will look at that game and it's T rating and pass it off as a wimpy little, almost Mickey Mouse level, attempt at a horror or thriller game and save the $60 for Dead Space 2, or Halo Reach.
Rauk_on
Everyone knows that M rated games are rated M for Manly!
ender_x
Yah I don't care about the rating on any game, ever.
Sukimaki
what u mean will get more copies than if it carried a M rating nobody cares bout the rateing on games i had rated M games back when i was 6 or how ever old i was when i got that playstation and i can go get a game with any rateing and nobody would care
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