ESRB Counts # Of Swear Words In Dead To Rights: Retribution

ESRB may be untrusted, liked or loathed depending on your opinion of them, but if there is one thing you have to give them its they know how to make a game sound interesting. While this rating summary isn't as good as Mass Effect 2's, which included them talking about the "unzipping of future blouse" and "Krogan sexual deviants enjoy salarian flexibility". However, Dead To Rights: Retribution is up there not for pure hilarity even though it is pretty funny that they counted how many times there's swearing in it, but because they make this game sound completely fricking awesome and actually make me want to get it now. Also you really have to wonder how determined they had to be to sit there and count every swear word you can just imagine them going "Ok 263 f**ks.... crap I lost count time to start over again".

"This is a third-person shooter in which players assume the role of Jack Slate, a renegade cop seeking revenge in the criminal underworld of Grant City. Players can complete various missions (e.g., rescuing, infiltrating, escaping), engage in fistfights and gun battles against terrorists and thugs, and use a canine side-kick (Shadow) to takedown enemies, to "dash-attack" and maul them. Combat involves a mix of hand-to-hand combat and gun shooting: Pistols, shotguns, turrets, explosives, and assault rifles are frequently used to kill human enemies; "clinch" and "disarm" moves highlight close-up punching, shooting, and kicking—sometimes in slow-motion, often ending in a pistol-whipping or pummeling, a shot to the knee-cap. And when characters take damage from gunfire or melee attacks, blood will splatter in the air, sometimes the screen. Blood also appears in large pools on the ground."

"During the course of the game, players will hear some strong profanity (around 275 f**ks, 90 or so sh*ts); players may also see a man who snorts a line of cocaine. The sexual content is minor (the reason for Suggestive Themes, not the Mature rating), but parents and consumers may still want to know—a concept image depicts a strip club named "Licensed Sex Shows," with an accompanying female silhouette; a still-frame cutscene briefly shows a pole dancer at a strip club."

"Two of the more intense depictions of violence include finishing moves called "takedowns" and Shadow's specialized attacks. Players control the dog as it pounces, bites, and digs into the chests of enemies crying out in pain—blood surfaces out of bodies like funneled dirt. And similar to the close-up clinch and disarm moves, the takedown attacks involve more dramatic, protracted instances of killing (sequences often culminating in quick-time events—watching a triggered one-to-two-second cutscene of the kill); these finishing moves depict neck-snapping, back-breaking, electrocution (from a gun, not an interrogator), shooting enemies in the back of the head while down, planting explosives on their shoulders and backs. That is why, Intense Violence at M."

Really if you didn't think that was a great description of a game then I don't know what is. Be sure to check back as Dead To Rights: Retribution comes closer to a release date.