Will Dante's Inferno be rated AO?

[I Resurection I]

So with the impending release of dante's inferno all my friends are saying the game will not be seen in stores. This is because of the demo we all played at game x, they kept saying that it will be rated AO. I think a game like this is board line AO but really still in the M rating section, and if it is rated AO...... what the F**K I really wanted to get this game.

 

[Katana314]

I've heard this sort of thing from one of my professors; so far, all the AO games have been porn games, or just had complete obligatory sex/violence. And yet, we hear the average age of gamers is around 30. He wanted to suggest to us to try making a game that gets an AO rating, but none of the violence/sex is obligatory; it's all working towards some mature, but deep, story.

Who knows, maybe it's just a hopeful copy of God of War. But there's my 2 cents.

 

[Ammadessi]

Depends on how blatant the sexual imagery is. Games don't get AO in the US without sex.

 

[internetzealot1]

Oh, it'll be close.

 

[yrogerg]

How about an answer of "Very few games ever deserve an AO rating, as the amount of sexual content/nudity (and it's ALWAYS sexual content and/or nudity) in games that the ESRB rates AO very often manages to fall short of what would push a movie into an R rating, much less NC-17. And that itself is funny, because the MPAA kinda sucks too, inasmuch as it holds deeply hypocritical attitudes about sex, versus violence and drugs." Because that's the answer I'm going with here.

Of course, it's more of a rant than an answer. But I've never let that stop me before!

 

[Internet Kraken]

It will not be AO. That would cripple its sales. EA just won't allow that. If they have to scale back the gore, then they will. I bet it will just barely meet the standards of an M game.