‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ Scores An ‘M’ Rating

Briefly: With just a few months to go until Batman: Arkham Knight finally releases, the game has officially received its ESRB rating, and its one that may surprise you.

While Rocksteady’s Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Warner Bros. Interactive’s Arkham Origins all received T ratings, the upcoming Arkham Knight has officially received an M rating from the ratings board.

Arkham Knight game director Sefton Hill touched on the rating in a conversation with IGN, stating that  “From our point of view, we never wrote it or made it with a rating in mind. We never did that in the previous two games… We just felt that this is the story that we really wanted to tell.”

With all of the broken promises we’ve seen in video games over the past year (see Watch Dogs and The Order: 1886 for example), I love the fact that Rocksteady is unwilling to compromise the experience that they’re trying to deliver, from the game’s delay last year, and now this.

Hill continued, “I’m not blind to the fact that [the M rating] does mean some fans will miss out… 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.”

June 2nd can’t come soon enough. Batman: Arkham Knight is one of the few titles that I’ve felt confident enough to pre-order, which these days is sure saying something. Are you looking forward to this one?

Source: IGN