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Batman: Arkham Knight is Rated "Mature"
-----------Director says they "just felt that this is the story that we really wanted to tell."
Batman: Arkham Knight will be Rocksteady Studio's first title in the franchise to receive and "M for Mature" raiting. Previous games such as Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, each received "T for Teen" ratings.
Rocksteady founder and Arkham Knight game director Sefton Hill said he was surprised to learn his game would be rated M.
"From our point of view, we never wrote it or made it with a rating in mind," he told IGN. "We never did that in the previous two games... We just felt that this is the story that we really wanted to tell."
Hill acknowledged that the M raiting means that some younger players won't be able to play the game, but he is not willing to change the story to make it more "mass market."
"I'm not blind to the fact that [the M rating] does mean some fans will miss out," he explained. "I don't want to be oblivious to that fact. It would have been wrong to water down the game and deliver a story we didn't believe in to keep the game 'mass market' or enable it for more people. We feel that's the wrong way to go about it. We said we love the story and we don't want to jepoardize that."
"We're not including gratuitous blood or swearing," he added. "We want to deliver a true end with no compromises, and it takes us to some dark places."
Hill went on to say that Arkham Knight's story will be "more mature" than previous games. Enemies will "fight dirty and take [Batman] to dark places," he said.
Originally intended to be released in 2014, Arkham Knight launches June 2 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
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