The game will also depict drinking, smoking and foul and crude language. Who is responsible for GTA 6's rating? The Entertainment Software Rating Board — ESRB — began rating video games in 1994.

Updated April 6, 2024 by Mark Sammut: Adults Only games are not only rare but also seem to have gone extinct. A decade has almost passed since the last time a game earned that rating, and this run ...

The ESRB's Adults Only rating used to be the kiss of death: Major retailers refused to touch any AO-rated videogame, and back in the days when games were distributed through retail channels ...

Adults Only is the ESRB’s most restrictive rating, and some stores don’t sell games rated AO at all. Although Steam and Itch.io allow AO games in their marketplaces, users can filter them out.

No previous Assassin's Creed game received an AO rating from the ESRB, with most entries in the mainline series picking up Mature (M) ratings.

Additionally, AO ratings are incredibly rare, with only four games since 2010 having been given this assignment. In short, it would have been a very bad situation for Ubisoft if Mirage was rated AO.

AO, while technically being the highest rating that can be assigned to a game by the ESRB, is rarely used, as Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all refuse to host AO-rated games.

The AO rating didn’t just appear on pre-order pages for the game. Before the Ubisoft Forward preshow began, an Adults Only ESRB rating appeared on the screen.

Few would expect to hear about an Atari Jaguar game ESRB rating in 2021, but that’s exactly what’s happening for American Hero, an unreleased FMV game that’s making its debut on consoles soon.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will release for PS4 and elsewhere on October 25, 2019. What do you make of the game’s ESRB rating? Let us know your thoughts. [Source: Twitter via MP1st] ...