Parents Guide 2 Games: Video Game New Releases January 31st 2017

Hello and Welcome to Parents guide to games. The games on this list are coming out the week of January 31st 2017.

Hitman: The Complete First Season

(PS4, Xbox One, PC)

Rating: Mature

Content Descriptors: Blood, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs

This is a stealth action game in which players control Agent 47, an assassin tasked with eliminating targets throughout various missions. From a third-person perspective, players use pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles, and various tools to assassinate human characters. Players can also use stealth attacks or environmental elements to eliminate targets and guards discretely. Players have the ability to kill non-adversary characters, though this may negatively affect players' progress and points. Large blood-splatter effects often occur, and pools of blood appear under victims' bodies. During the course of the game, some female characters are seen unconscious and dragged by players' character; their underwear and portions of their buttocks are sometimes depicted. The dialogue also contains sexual material. In one sequence, players lure targets to smoke cannabis cigarettes. Swear words are heard in dialogue.

Digimon World: Next Order

(PS4)

Rating: Everyone 10 and up

Content Descriptors: Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes

This is a role-playing game in which players help a hero save a digital world from a virus. As players explore the digital world, they interact with characters and raise Digimon creatures to help battle monsters in turn-based combat. Players issue commands to Digimon that perform various attacks and skill moves to defeat enemies. Battles are highlighted by smacking sounds, colorful light effects, and large explosions. The game contains some suggestive material: female characters in outfits that reveal moderate amounts of cleavage and/or exposed buttocks; dialogue that states, “Stay away from me, you perv!” During the course of the game, players encounter a monster that performs an attack in which pink swirls are thrown and smear players' screen. The words “damn” and “hell” appear in dialogue.

Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World

(3DS)

Rating: Everyone

Content Descriptors: Mild Cartoon Violence

This is a platformer game in which players assume the role of Yoshi as he tries to save his friends.. Yoshi can stomp, chomp, and throw projectiles/yarn at enemies to knock them off screen. In some levels, Yoshi can use vehicles to shoot “cartoony” projectiles at enemies; other areas have exaggerated bombs made of yarn.