There’s a part of me that thinks that South Park may not be suitable for kids. I kind of realised this around the time that beloved mascot Kenny McCormick was gratuitously chainsawed in half in agonisingly slow detail. Or maybe it was that time when Cartman fed a kid his own parents. Hell, maybe that episode where the Japanese run amok killing whales and dolphins may have also been a solid indicator.
Point is, is that you can expect much of the same humour in South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Following on from the Stick of Truth, a game which featured you fighting Nazi Zombie abortions, Fractured But Whole’s American M for Mature rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) indicated some pretty gross and obscene humour. I’m already giggling at the thought of this stuff.
Revealed via Wario64 on Twitter, the ratings describe content that includes “Blood and Gore, Mature Humor, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Violence”. Look, I still want to see how Fractured But Whole tops a battle scene where you had to avoid your father’s flopping testicles as you took on underpants Gnomes.
There are some spoilers below, but here’s one adult-audiences-only example of what to expect according to the ratings:
Characters are depicted urinating and defecating; one extended sequence (in a strip club) depicts a character performing a lap dance while emitting flatulence; one scene depicts a towel character performing an obscured sex act on a man in an alley; another scene shows a man watching security monitors and repeatedly reaching for lubrication behind his desk–all sequences are depicted in a cartoony and over-the-top manner.
Characters are sometimes depicted nude (e.g,, breasts, buttocks, male genitalia). During the course of the game, players can observe characters snorting lines of cocaine, and in one level, players must complete a quest to bring a marijuana prescription to a character. The words “f**k,” “c*nt,” and “sh*t,” and racial epithets (e.g., “n**ga,” “sp*ok”) are heard in the dialogue.
I’d expect nothing less from a game that also had an extended scene of aliens fiddling with your rectum. South Park: The Fractured But Whole is finally out on October 17 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Sweeeeeeeeeet.
Last Updated: August 29, 2017
Craig "CrAiGiSh" Dodd
August 29, 2017 at 12:09
So keen for this but might not get it on release day.
“Season Pass” – this killed it for me.
Kromas Ryder
August 29, 2017 at 12:15
I wanna play this sooo bad.
Magoo
August 29, 2017 at 12:16
Ha! Fuck you whale!
Lu
August 29, 2017 at 12:35
Fuckah yoo dolphiiiin!
Original Heretic
August 29, 2017 at 12:55
That’s why Live wrote that song.
“Can you hear the dolphins cry”
Lu
August 29, 2017 at 13:17
The way you’re bathed in light,
reminds me of that night,
we dropped that bomb on Hiroshiiiiiiima.
Original Heretic
August 29, 2017 at 13:20
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3e6afa7522feb1b0e3e6d00a1aac9e8896a4895c4a69118c207df28640987f85.jpg
Lu
August 29, 2017 at 13:27
Scary considering “The land of the free” is the only country to nuke another
Original Heretic
August 29, 2017 at 13:32
“Land of the free”? That’s their marketing department talking.
They’re more like the “land of the oppressed, land of the people with money making all the decisions to the detriment of everyone else, land of the militarized, land of the liars”.
They’re the land of confusion. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9b036a6a8dab765954076d40882079246d95f3b57c5ef2b0825d5121f962c3e1.jpg
Lu
August 29, 2017 at 13:35
Haha hence the quotes (can’t do the Dr Evil finger quotes over text). Land of confusion is pretty on point.
The D
August 29, 2017 at 12:40
FUCK YOU DOLPHINERU!
cloudzn
August 29, 2017 at 12:26
Hopefully Ubisoft doesn’t censor the console versions like they did for Stick of Truth
Lu
August 29, 2017 at 12:50
They censored the PC version with that stupid crying Koala too
Original Heretic
August 29, 2017 at 12:54
You referring to the alien probing scene? Yeah, I hate that we couldn’t see the full game in its full glory.
cloudzn
August 30, 2017 at 13:57
Alien probing plus handful of a few other scenes as well.