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Atari’s The Witcher 2 Game Conjures Fantasy, Action, Magic, and Sex

The Mature-rated fantasy sequel earns its rating in steamy sex scenes
Article | 05.23.11 | By John Gaudiosi
Atari, the company best known for ushering in the video game industry with family-friendly titles like Pong, Battlezone, Centipede and Moon Patrol has a very Mature-rated game on its hands. European developer CD Projekt Red’s new fantasy action sequel serves up a hefty quotient of action on the battlefield, as well as between the bed sheets. Or in some cases, in the water, as the M-rated video below shows.
 

 
More games today are featuring nudity and sex, including Rockstar Games’ critically acclaimed LA Noire, BioWare’s epic fantasy Dragon Age II, and Sony’s Heavy Rain. Many of these games come from European developers, where sex and nudity is shown on television without any fanfare. It’s only in the U.S. where sex in any form of entertainment seems to cause an uproar. Conversely, violence in movies, games, and TV in the States is fine, whereas Europeans tend to have a lower tolerance for that.
 
CD Projekt Red has recently released The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings for PC, the sequel to the award-winning, million-selling RPG that captured the imaginations of discerning players everywhere. The original game introduced a truly unique protagonist, the professional slayer of monsters, Geralt of Rivia, and defined a new standard for thought-provoking, non-linear game narration, with mature themes, significant choices that weren’t automatically good or bad, and true decisions that led to meaningfully different consequences.
 
The Witcher 2 builds upon these distinctive strengths within an all-new storyline filled with complex characters, captivating political machinations and intriguing challenges. It also features a new, brutal combat system that uniquely combines tactical elements with dynamic action. The proprietary REDengine, designed and built in-house to support the specific demands imposed by our complex, branching style of open-ended storytelling, also takes full advantage of the latest advances in graphical technology.
 
And Geralt has plenty of adventures off the battlefield, which gamers will be able to explore. It’s a growing trend that seems to show a maturing of game development, just as R-rated Hollywood movies blend sex and action into a variety of different stories.

  

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