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The Entertainment Software Rating Board has released their rating summary for the upcoming multiplatform title, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (as well as the collector’s edition for the Xbox 360, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Dark Edition). The PC and Xbox 360 role-playing game received an M (for Mature) rating due to the following contents: blood gore, intense violence, nudity, strong language, strong sexual content and use of drugs. You can check out the latest screens from the regular PC version of the game (as well as the first screens from the Enhanced Edition on Xbox 360) in the slideshow to the left of this article and the full rating summary provided by the ESRB below:
This is a role-playing game in which players assume the role of Geralt, a monster slayer who must hunt down an assassin to clear his own name. As players complete quests, they use swords and magic spells to kill enemy soldiers and fantastical creatures (e.g., specters, harpies, spider-like monsters) in melee-style combat; attacks are often accompanied by slashing sounds and screams of pain. Blood-splatter effects occur when enemies are hit, and damage sometimes results in dismemberment or decapitation—blood stains and body parts occasionally appear in the environment. Other cutscenes depict gore and more intense acts of violence: a close-up view of a severed head; a restrained woman's eyes getting gouged out (off-screen); a character being castrated (not depicted) before his throat is slit. During the course of the game, some female characters are depicted topless; there is also a fleeting image of pubic hair as a woman dives into the water. Players can initiate brief cutscene sequences that depict varying degrees of sexual activity: a topless woman rocking on top of man; a man caressing a woman's back; a man pushing up against a woman's posterior—sexual moaning sounds can be heard, though the camera cuts away from explicit sexual acts. Some sequences depict a cocaine-like substance being cut into lines; another scene shows a man's back as he snorts the substance. Language such as 'f**k,' 'sh*t,' and 'c*nt' can be heard in the dialogue.
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