hi all - can anyone tell me to what extent the "mature content" goes to on the game, and is there a preference or setting you can use so that the game does not show mature content? i have a 12 year old son who really wants it but i am wary with the M rating. what kind of pervs need to make computer animated sex scenes? come on ubisoft, grow up and stop developing games like a coming of age teenager. sheesh.

any insight would be appreciated. thanks
eriq

Probably that M rating is because of the hitting people in painfull places. Like down there and throwing them down from a roof. Probably that kind of stuff.

Your best bet would be to check this website:
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.jsp

Right now they do not have AC2 ratings, but come closer to release they will.

If you're from the UK check this website:
http://www.pegi.info/en/index/

What is wrong with you? If you let you 12 year old son play an M rated game then it´s your problem, not Ubi. If I had a son of that age I would not let him play a videogame with intense violence, blood, sex and strong language (by definition)

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Originally posted by Cornik22:
What is wrong with you? If you let you 12 year old son play an M rated game then it´s your problem, not Ubi. If I had a son of that age I would not let him play a videogame with intense violence, blood, sex and strong language (by definition)

Agreed.

So far the things that seem obvious:
-Blood (though it can be turned off)
-Language (I'm thinking its going to be worse here than in ac1)
-Partial Nudity (You see a woman's bare back, or thats the worst we have seen yet in this area..)
-Strong Violence (its brutal stuff)

thats about all that I can think of right now...

Right. If you don´t want your kid to get access to mature content then don´t buy him mature games. So don´t expect a magic option to turn all the adult stuff off.

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Originally posted by Cornik22:
What is wrong with you? If you let you 12 year old son play an M rated game then it´s your problem, not Ubi. If I had a son of that age I would not let him play a videogame with intense violence, blood, sex and strong language (by definition)

That game would be Grand Theft Auto...

AC2 won't show any of the actual sex. It will make you press buttons to kiss and undress your girlfriend but after that, it goes into a black screen... Then you may just need to mute your TV/PC...

For those of you giving constructive insight, thanks I appreciate it.

For those of you with their two cents on what I should let me kid play, thank you too, that is what I am posting. I am not a gamer, don't play this game, so was hoping the expertise of you folks would help and it definitely has.

Of course if I am worried I won't buy it. Personally, I think the M titles are limiting their sales potential for a few jollies, that's all.

funkeq

Here's something you might want to see. An article about the sex scene.

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Originally posted by funkeq:
Of course if I am worried I won't buy it. Personally, I think the M titles are limiting their sales potential for a few jollies, that's all.

funkeq

The problem with this is the fact that they're not actually losing any sales by having nudity and sex in their games. R rated movies have the same things, they still are really popular, unless the movie is terrible.

M rated video games are all geared at 17 year old and older gamers, a lot of gamers are in this age category. The main problem is a lot of people think videogames are for children. They started out that way, but they're now for adults and children, and they're seperated by the ESRB rating.

actualy even if they took out the content described above the game would still be M rated as due to the style of game (run round and kill everything) it is always going to end up a M rated game for violence.

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Originally posted by caswallawn_2k7:
actualy even if they took out the content described above the game would still be M rated as due to the style of game (run round and kill everything) it is always going to end up a M rated game for violence.

Yeah, that's exactly right. I think it's pretty safe to say that 90% of games for the PS3 and 360 would be rated M.

...You're complaining about a game THAT IS BASED AROUND KILLING PEOPLE!?

I seriously hate that kind of ignorance. And who the HELL cares about nudity in a game? You're pathetic for calling Ubisoft (and developers in general) pervs.

You're even more pathetic for blaming Ubisoft for your inability to raise your son decently.
I wanna bet you don't want him to be educated on sex either, right? Because he will see nudity!

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You're even more pathetic for blaming Ubisoft for your inability to raise your son decently.

yes because your parents seem to have done such a good job with you

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Originally posted by Coolgerb:
...You're complaining about a game THAT IS BASED AROUND KILLING PEOPLE!?

I seriously hate that kind of ignorance. And who the HELL cares about nudity in a game? You're pathetic for calling Ubisoft (and developers in general) pervs.

You're even more pathetic for blaming Ubisoft for your inability to raise your son decently.
I wanna bet you don't want him to be educated on sex either, right? Because he will see nudity!

I know that I shouldn't interfere with this but, I think you're out of line. You should never tell a parent how to raise their kids.

hey coolgerb, didn't mean to get your back up, obviously you are pretty passionate about this topic - it is good to see that perspective. shame on me for expecting ubisoft to raise my kids, huh? lol unbelievable

eriq / funkeq

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Originally posted by Azugo:

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Originally posted by Coolgerb:
...You're complaining about a game THAT IS BASED AROUND KILLING PEOPLE!?

I seriously hate that kind of ignorance. And who the HELL cares about nudity in a game? You're pathetic for calling Ubisoft (and developers in general) pervs.

You're even more pathetic for blaming Ubisoft for your inability to raise your son decently.
I wanna bet you don't want him to be educated on sex either, right? Because he will see nudity!

I know that I shouldn't interfere with this but, I think you're out of line. You should never tell a parent how to raise their kids.

In some cases you should. Admitted, I am passionate about this topic, but c'mon, which decent parent is afraid his kid will see (partial, not to mention fake in this case) nudity nowadays? We're not living in the 50's you know.
And sure he might be a decent parent at other things, but in this in my opinion he is not. If people agree or disagree with me that is up to them.

fair enough coolgerb

What is the correlation between time and moral decency?

I don't see it.

Funkeq, consider me more stuck-up about such matters than yourself, and let me tell you that I doubt the game should have anything that is overboard for a kid to see.