Batman: Arkham Knight Rated ‘M For Mature’

<p>Batman&&num;8217&semi;s final chapter in the Arkham franchise is <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;batman-arkham-knight-e3-trailer&sol;">a darker one<&sol;a>&comma; but according to the latest update from developer Rocksteady Studios&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;ll be a more mature one too&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Talking with IGN in a lengthy interview&comma; Rocksteady founder Sefton Hill that the<em> Batman&colon; Arkham Knight<&sol;em> has already been rated &&num;8220&semi;M for mature&&num;8221&semi; by the ESRB&period; The game&comma; which Rocksteady has promised to be their darkest entry in the series&comma; will reportedly avoid &&num;8220&semi;gratuitous blood or swearing&&num;8221&semi; though what amount there might be the studio wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t say&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;This isn&&num;8217&semi;t the case of stripped back Batman&period; In the case of Arkham Knight&comma; Batman is at his peak and most powerful&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Hill said&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s why they also have to push him harder than before&period; You still get the power fantasy of being the Batman&period; But to counter that strength&comma; the super villains are going to fight dirty and take him to dark places&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The studio elaborated that<em> Arkham Knight&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;em>s development process didn&&num;8217&semi;t include any compromises on their part&period; Rocksteady claims that while publisher Warner Bros&period; Interactive did point to several scenes that could cause &&num;8220&semi;issues&&num;8221&semi; with the ESRB ratings board&comma; they chose instead to keep them&period; Speaking with the VP of production at DC Comics&comma; Hill reportedly informed him an M rating was what the studio wanted and simply put&comma; that was that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m not blind to the fact that &lbrack;the M rating&rsqb; does mean some fans will miss out&&num;8230&semi; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to be oblivious to that fact&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he continued&period; &&num;8220&semi;It would have been wrong to water down the game and deliver a story we didn&&num;8217&semi;t believe in to keep the game &&num;8220&semi;mass market&&num;8221&semi; or enable it for more people&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><em>Batman&colon; Arkham Knight<&sol;em> will be the very first in Rocksteady&&num;8217&semi;s trilogy to an &&num;8220&semi;M&&num;8221&semi; rating&comma; as the three previous games in the series – i&period;e&period; <em>Batman Arkham Asylum&comma; Arkham City&comma; <&sol;em>and their prequel of<em> Arkham&colon; Origins <&sol;em>– were all rated &&num;8220&semi;T&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Years after the events of <em>Arkham City <&sol;em>and the demise of his arch-nemesis&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;batman-arkham-knight-gameplay-trailer&sol;"><em>Arkham Knight<&sol;em><&sol;a> sees Batman fighting nearly everyone in is rogues gallery in a Gotham City under siege from the fear-inducing Scarecrow&period; Whether the mature themes spring from the villain in question remains to be seen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ll have to wait until<strong> June 2nd<&sol;strong> to find out just how dark Rocksteady&&num;8217&semi;s Dark Knight becomes when the game releases for Xbox One&comma; PC&comma; and Playstation 4&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;24&sol;batman-arkham-knight-shows-bruce-wayne-at-his-darkest">IGN<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;