The ESRB has been busy rating a ton of video games over the past couple of days. Now they have revealed some of the content that will be in the 2016 Hitman video game.
Hitman 2016 has been rated M for mature players over the age of 17. The content descriptors are: “Blood, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes”
The rating summary says: “This is a stealth action game in which players control Agent 47, an assassin tasked with eliminating targets throughout various missions. From a third-person perspective, players use pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles, and various tools (e.g., poisons, cleavers, explosives) to assassinate human characters.
Players can also use stealth attacks (e.g., strangling characters with wires) to eliminate targets and guards at close range. Players have the ability to kill non-adversary characters (e.g., striking them with an ax, shooting them in plain sight), though this may negatively affect players’ progress and points. Large blood-splatter effects often occur, and pools of blood appear under victims’ bodies.
During the course of the game, some female characters are seen unconscious and dragged by players’ character; their underwear and portions of their buttocks are sometimes depicted. The dialogue also contains suggestive material (e.g., “Go get yourself laid or something,” “I’m a wh*re,” and “…move your pelvis back and forth and in and out.”). There are also brief references to drugs in dialogue (e.g., “He’s probably coked out of his mind” and “You don’t have any coke, do you?”). The words “f**k,” “sh*t,” and “c*ck” are heard in dialogue.
Hitman 2016 will be released episodically over the course of many weeks. The first episode releases on March 11th, 2016 for the PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
