Duke Nukem Forever was just recently given a "Mature" rating by the ESRB, the least shocking news ever since the firing of Charlie Sheen. Here's a couple of excerpts from the official ESRB rating summary that got Duke Nukem Forever its well-deserved "Mature" rating.
It is a first-person shooter in which individuals take on the role of Duke Nukem, an action hero who must save Earth from invading aliens. Absolutely nothing huge at this point - this can be a buttered up Halo for all we know. But keep reading and the summary begins to really feel a lot more like a murderous horror than a genuine rating:
Aliens are often decapitated or dismembered when hit. A few sequences illustrate more over-the-top cases of violence: aliens getting stabbed in the top of the head or impaled; a human soldier bursting into bloody gibs after being thrown through propeller blades.
The team at Duke Nukem Forever has the challenge of fulfilling a decade and a half of buzz and expectations, yet in doing so, it has to kick censors aside for its exceptional, graphic gameplay:
Players enter a strip club level and view a few topless dancers and get lap dances. A few quests in this level call for players to recover sex toys and photos of topless females. A pair of women seem to perform fellatio on the central character, Duke moans and leans up against the wall of a restroom stall (furnished with a hole), it is suggested that a sex act (not depicted) takes place.
Furnished with a hole provides a nice, descriptive impression, as does the excerpt in general. It is like the regulators decided to go from developing a ratings scheme to writing an adult book. This could have been the next couple of lines I think (my version):
Duke caresses a female lady of the night while sitting on a papered bathroom seat cover, grasping her with bulging biceps as well as anabolic steroid infused forearms, mimicking the act of sexual intimacy. The lady surrenders to every ounce of charm, machismo, and timber echoing from Duke's resonant voice, as it's assumed, the two are engaged in baby-making.
Rated "R" for REALLY Romantic...
Here's an excerpt right from the actual summary:
Bathroom sense of humor involves the capability to urinate in toilets or urinals and/or pick up feces from toilets as well as toss it against wall surfaces. Gamers could use both anabolic steroid tablets as well as beer as power-ups; when beer is ingested, the monitor temporarily blurs.
Way to crush mood, guys...
I found the reference to the screen blurring interesting. They use the phrasing "power ups" in the previous sentence yet wouldn't proceed so far as to say make use of "beer goggles" when referring to Duke drinking beer (most likely as it is more of a "power down"). Just could not bring themselves to get it done, I suppose.
The words 'f**k,' 'sh*t,' 'c*ck,' as well as 'a*shole' show up in conversations and on-screen text.
Hence, in other words, there is a huge amount of hip hop music in the video game.
Check out the full summary of the "Mature" rating. You might discover something, probably not, but at least it's going to distract you from counting down the hours right until Duke Nukem Forever's public release.
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