Parents Guide 2 Games: Video Game New Releases February 21st 2017

Hello and Welcome to Parents guide to games. The games on this list are coming out the week of February 21^h 2017.

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk

(PS4, PC, Vita)

Rating: Mature

Content Descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content

This is an action game in which players assume the roles of mercenary characters battling large armies in frenetic melee-style combat. From a third-person perspective, players use swords and magic attacks to kill dozens of enemy soldiers, demons, mutant animals, and trolls. Enemies are sent flying across the battlefield with each strike, and combat is highlighted by cries of pain and large blood-splatter effects. Some attack moves result in enemies bursting into limbs and body parts. Cutscenes sometimes depict characters getting stabbed in the eye, or sliced in the abdomen. The game includes some suggestive/sexual material: characters with exposed breasts and/or buttocks(though nipples and genitalia are obscured); one scene depicts a man fondling a woman's breast through her nightgown, as she moans loudly. The word “sh*t” appears in the dialogue.

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Halo Wars 2

(Xbox One, PC)

Rating: Teen

Content Descriptors: Mild Blood, Mild Language, Violence

This is a real-time strategy game in which players build and command military units in order to defeat opponents and complete combat objectives. From a ¾-overhead perspective, players collect and manage resources to mobilize/upgrade military units (e.g., infantry, armored vehicles). Combat is highlighted by realistic gunfire, explosions, and cries of pain. One cutscene briefly depicts blood spilling out of a stab wound; another scene shows bloodied injuries on a soldier's face. A handful of cutscenes depict soldiers shooting or stabbing enemy aliens. The words “b*tch” and “a*s” appear in the dialogue.

Night in the Woods

(PS4, PC)

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

(PSVR)

Rating: Everyone 10 and up

Once again players will assume the role of Raz, an intrepid young psychic and now fully fledged member of the Psychonauts — an elite group of international psychic secret agents!
The story picks up exactly where it left off at the end of Psychonauts with Raz, Lili, Sasha, Milla, and Coach Oleander flying off to rescue Truman Zannotto, the Grand Head of the Psychonauts. Their mission takes them straight into the heart of the Rhombus of Ruin, a mysterious part of the ocean as deadly as two Bermuda Triangles back to back!
When the rescue party itself is kidnapped and held prisoner in the Rhombus, Raz is immobilized and must use only his psychic powers to reunite his friends, reveal the identity of the kidnapper, and free Truman before the madness of the Rhombus consumes all their minds.

Lego Worlds

(Xbox One, PS4, PC)

Rating: Everyone 10 and up

Content Descriptors: Cartoon Violence

This is an adventure game in which players explore various landscapes and use Lego bricks to create buildings, mountains, islands, and objects. Players complete quests that involve collecting items, building structures, completing tasks, and defeating enemies. Characters use swords, pistols, and turrets to shoot at enemies or engage in melee-style combat. Characters break into Lego pieces when their health meters are depleted. Some of the violence occurs from a first-person perspective, and players have the ability to attack non-adversary figures (e.g., creatures, animals, Lego people), though this behavior is not encouraged/rewarded.