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Batman: Arkham Knight Becomes First In Series To Be M Rated

You'd be forgiven for thinking that Arkham Asylum and Arkham City were both M rated games. They are pretty dark, and certainly featured some more adult content. But alack, they were rated T.

That won't be the case with Arkham Knight. According to the ESRB, and in turn Rocksteady, the game will become the first in the Batman: Arkham franchise to feature a 'Mature' rating.

Speaking to IGN, the game's director Sefton Hill clarified that this wasn't an entirely purposeful destination.

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.

Hill acknowledged that Rocksteady knows this means some younger players might not get a hold of the game, but said it was important to keep the story intact.

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.

For me? I really don't subscribe to the fact that M or R rated products make a property better. Most of the time, it actually just makes it more asinine. Seeing as Rocksteady weren't aiming for the M and it just happened because of the story they want to tell is encouraging though.

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