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Duke Nukem Forever's ESRB Rating...

B

badb0y

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Racial stereotypes, jokes about bodily functions, blatant sexual references, and tons and tons of "gibs." And those are only some of the ESRB's findings on the contents in Duke Nukem Forever.

Not too suprising that the game will be stamped with a "Mature" rating when it drops on May 5th. Want the full breadth of the ESRB's findings? Read them below and feel free to point out any of your favorites in the comments:

"Rating: Mature

Content descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol

Rating summary: This is a first-person shooter in which players assume the role of Duke Nukem, an action hero who must save Earth from invading aliens. Players use pistols, rail guns, shotguns, explosives, and Duke's bare hands to attack and kill the alien enemies. The majority of gameplay involves destroying these enemies in frenetic gun and laser battles in order to move on to the next section. Aliens are often decapitated or dismembered when hit, sending large splashes of blood across the ground, surrounding walls, and players' screen. Some sequences depict more 'over-the-top' instances of violence: aliens getting stabbed in the head or impaled; a human soldier bursting into bloody gibs after being tossed through propeller blades. In one sequence, players have the ability to shoot human characters that are trapped in pod-like alien webbing; bodies explode into pieces upon impact. During the course of the game, players enter a strip-club level and view several topless dancers and receive lap dances. A couple of missions within this level require players to recover sex toys and pictures of topless women. A few sequences strongly imply sexual acts: two women appear to perform fellatio on the central character (e.g., raising their heads from his lap)—though there is no actual depiction of the sex act; Duke moans and leans up against the wall of a bathroom stall (furnished with a hole)—it is implied that a sex act (not depicted) occurs. The game also contains several sexual references and innuendo in the dialogue (e.g., 'I have hungry—you have big egg ro' for me, Duke,' 'If you supply the dancing, I'll supply the pole,' and 'I'll need something naughty to play with.'). Duke's comments range from jokes about colon cleansing to several one-liners about sex and female body parts. Bathroom humor includes the ability to urinate in toilets or urinals and/or pick up feces from toilets and throw it against walls. Players can use both steroid pills and beer as power-ups; when beer is consumed, the screen temporarily blurs. The words 'f**k,' 'sh*t,' 'c*ck,' and 'a*shole' appear in dialogue and on-screen text."
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It's like he never left 😀 .
 
LOL imagine if you were 14 right now and waiting for this game to come out.

Actually I suppose that's what it was like for most of us here when the earlier Duke Nukem games were released.
 
AstroManLuca said:
LOL imagine if you were 14 right now and waiting for this game to come out.

Actually I suppose that's what it was like for most of us here when the earlier Duke Nukem games were released.
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Pressing space bar to give the strippers money in the original Duke was fun when I was a teenager.
 
AstroManLuca said:
LOL imagine if you were 14 right now and waiting for this game to come out.
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Yeah, except most the people who still remember Duke Nukem are 13 years older now and likely aren't as impressed anymore. That said, i'll probably still pick up the game, DN3D was one of my all time favorite games.
 
mindcycle said:
Yeah, except most the people who still remember Duke Nukem are 13 years older now and likely aren't as impressed anymore. That said, i'll probably still pick up the game, DN3D was one of my all time favorite games.
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Pretty much this. I remember picking up Duke Nukem 3D back in the day because it was one of the few games around that went THAT far into the toilet - and I loved it. However, in today's world of GTA4 and similar titles, DNF isn't going to be as outlandish.

Still, I think it'll sell well simply due to curiosity, the "WTF is Hell freezing over?" factor, and the people that play GTA4 simply to run over pedestrians and employ prostitutes. In 2-3 years, no one will really care about DNF.
 
why all these strong languaged games lately? they don't think enough adults buying these games because the language are too mild?
 
I look forward to Nintendo putting this on one of their consoles. It was a laugh watching how the completely ruined DN3D with the N64 port. They changes "I'm going to rip off your head and shit down your neck" to "In a perfect world, you'd already be dead". Wimpy Nintendo girls.
 
I dunno if there has been any talk of this, but what of the VA that originally voiced Duke? His delivery in the first game was so damn perfect, it'd be a shame if he were dead or something. Hope they got him back for this one.
 
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