Bioshock Infinite Parent Guide

                Bioshock Infinite Parent Guide   

                              

18+ Extremely violent, gritty game, low on sex, swearing

Positive Messages: 2/10

Very complex, and mature messages and themes concerning race, religion, consumerism, and philosophies such as American Exeptionalism, which states that the US has a special responsibility to spread democracy and "Freedom" in the world. 

  

Positive Role Models: 2/10

This is a tough one..there aren't really any positive, shining characters in this gritty universe, but all have their motives. Booker, although he's got a flawed and extremely complicated past, but tries to somehow stay on the right side of the path. Elizabeth, seems like a good and kind person, but has her dark, and even slightly disturbing moments. 

Profanity: 3/10

Surprisingly low for today's games: Sh*t can be heard a few times during play, and a few racial slurs and references, such as Injun, chink, etc.

Sex and Nudity: 2/10

Dialogue contains mild sexual talk, including references to fornication, and the clap.

Some low-cut dresses, cleavage.

Drinking, Smoking, Drugs: 7/10

Players can make their character smoke, and drink beer, wine etc, to gain or lose health, although there isn't any animation or real benefit. Children can be seen smoking, and there are fictional cigarette ads aimed at children.

Violence, Gore" 10/10

  Yeah, if this game were a movie, it would be rated R for Violence and disturbing Images throughout. Blood sprays when shooting enemies with a large arsenal of weapons, also giving the ability to shoot the heads off, with a sniper rifle for example.

  Players use vigors to burn, and electrocute people, can send crows at them, and use numerous other more fantastical abilities on enemies. However, the animations when first acquiring the vigors are the most disturbing; Booker's hands burn away to bone, etc.

  However, the most brutal gameplay violence are unquestionably the the Sky-Hook melee kills, with blood splattering and spraying as you smack and rip the metal hook into their face, neck, chest, or stomach, breaking their necks, ripping them open, or decapitating them.

  There are also quite a few disturbing cinematic sequences; At the beginning of the game, we see a man tied to a chair with a bloody bag over his head, and pooling at his feet, a chisel and hammer lie nearby.

  Booker attacks a police officer with the Sky-Hook, driving it into his face, blood spraying over the body, other characters, the ground and the screen. As the corpse falls, we see the gory indent on what's remaining of his face.

  We see a chinese prisoner tied to a board, before being attacked by a murder of crows, pecking at his face and body, leaving him dead and drenched in blood.

Frightening, Intense: 7/10

See Violence, Gore for details.

Strong horror elements are present later in the game, the violence can be seriously upsetting, and is guaranteed to disturb anyone who's playing it. There are a few more sequences, but they contains spoilers; you get the general idea. 

Mature audiences Only!!