Tinder
Tinder-
Google Play Store - 17/10/2017
Advice for consumers
This app has been rated PEGI 18, as it is a dating app.
Brief outline of the game
This app allows users to find potential partners by swiping right on profiles and matching if they swipe back. There is a chat function in which users can share messages and send pictures.
Content specific issues
The app’s primary focus is for dating and messages sent between matched users could contain strong language and references to sex.
Other issues
The app contains digital purchases to obtain extra likes and boosts.
Counter Strike Terrorist Shooting
MasonClemens-
Google Play Store - 09/02/2018
Advice for consumers
This app has been rated PEGI 18 for frequent, strong violence against human characters.
Brief outline of the game
This is a first person shooter action game that involves shooting human characters in different environments.
Content specific issues
The game features frequent, strong violence against human terrorists, who react to being shot in the head by falling down. There is a splash of blood. It takes two shots to the body to kill them. The player character can walk up close to opponents to shoot them. The setting is a war environment.
Hitman Sniper
Square Enix Ltd-
Google Play Store - 19/06/2018
Advice for consumers
This game has been rated PEGI 18 for extreme violence against human characters.
Brief outline of the game
This is a first person sniper game that involves shooting targeted criminals, collecting weapon parts and completing blueprints to unlock guns.
Content specific issues
The game allows the unseen shooter to zoom in on targeted criminals in various buildings in a city. When hit, they fall down and there is a splash of blood, which is sometimes on the ground. This rewards players with points. Innocent bystanders can also be hit, and this has no consequences for the player.
Other issues
The game contains in-app purchases.
POF Free Dating App
Plentyoffish Media ULC-
Google Play Store - 14/09/2018
Advice for consumers
This app has been rated PEGI 18, as it is a dating app.
Brief outline of the game
This app allows users to find potential partners, by searching for compatible partners through filters. These filters include hobbies and lifestyles.
Content specific issues
The app’s primary focus is for dating and messages sent between matched users could contain strong language and references to sex. Users cannnot send photos containing nudity.
Other issues
The app contains in-app purchases and users can interact through a chat function.
The One We Found
Loveridge Designs-
Xbox One - 31/10/2018
Advice for consumers
This game has been rated PEGI 18, which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY. This rating has been given due to strong violence. Not suitable for persons below 18 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
You are a psychotherapist in a mental institution. Recently a un-earthed cave network has not only revealed dark secrets but a terrible evil with it.
Content specific issues
Violence in the game is strong and graphic in nature. Human-like characters can be decapitated by gunshots and blood effects are used. Responses to this violence is realistic, with each shot staggering the characters.
Other issues
The game has dark, scary overtones as it is set in a seemingly abandoned mental institution.
Sniper 59
ARLOOPA Inc.-
Oculus Store - 20/11/2018
Advice for consumers
This game has been rated PEGI 18 for extreme violence.
Brief outline of the game
This is a first person shooter game that involves taking the role of a sniper, who shoots targeted assassins in a town.
Content specific issues
The purpose of the game is to shoot targeted human criminals who are walking around a busy town. When they are hit, they fall down and there is a small splash of blood. Sometimes, the screen is splattered with blood. The player can shoot several unarmed civilians, but this is not the main aim. Vehicles can also be shot at, causing them to explode.
Detroit: Become Human
‘Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe'-
PlayStation 4 - 25/05/2018
Advice for consumers
This game is rated PEGI 18 which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY and is not suitable for anyone below this age. This rating has been given due to depictions of violence to vulnerable/defenceless human-like characters, depictions of strong violence to human-like characters, and use of sexual expletives. Not suitable for persons under 18 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Travel to the near-future metropolis of Detroit – a city rejuvenated by an exciting technological development: androids. Witness your brave new world turn to chaos as you take on the role of Kara, a female android trying to find her own place in a turbulent social landscape.
Content specific issues
This game contains depictions of violence towards vulnerable and defenceless human characters. One of the sections of the game takes place in a household with an abusive father and his young daughter. Throughout your time in the household you witness the father being verbally abusive to his daughter. The player is then given the instruction to protect her, and the player can go about this objective in numerous ways such as confronting the father, getting a gun and threatening him, or running to the girl and escaping with her. If her father gets to her first it is implied that he kills her. There is also another scene at the beginning of the game where a young girl is being held hostage on the edge of a skyscraper with a gun held to her head. This game also contains depictions of gross violence towards human-like characters. One of the more pertinent examples is when an android commits suicide by repeatedly slamming his face into a table until it begins to split open, he then grabs a handgun and shoots himself through the head. A large open bloody wound is left where the bullet exited his head. This game also contains frequent use of sexual expletives, the word “fuck” and its derivatives are found throughout.
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Ubisoft EMEA-
PC - 05/10/2018
Advice for consumers
This game is rated PEGI 18 which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY and is not suitable for anyone below this age. This rating has been given due to depictions of gross violence towards human characters, motiveless killing of multiple innocent human characters, violence towards vulnerable and defenceless human characters, and use of sexual expletives. Not suitable for persons under 18 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Embark on a journey as Alexios or Kassandra to uncover the truth about your mysterious past. Sail to the farthest reaches of the Aegean Sea and engage in naval combat, charge into battles pitting hundreds of soldiers against each other, and unleash your Special Abilities on your enemies.
Content specific issues
This game contains frequent depictions of strong violence towards human characters throughout. In one scene a male character has his hands tied behind his back and his head is being forced into a barrel of liquid and held there for some time until he gives up information. In another scene, a man who also has his hands tied behind his back is on his knees and a male character stabs him through the mouth with a long spear. You can see the spear protruding through the other side of his head. Blood drips from the wound. During gameplay, the player can kill multiple innocent and unarmed civilians. The game also contains frequent use of the word “fuck” and its derivatives.
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Ubisoft EMEA-
Xbox One - 05/10/2018
Advice for consumers
This game is rated PEGI 18 which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY and is not suitable for anyone below this age. This rating has been given due to depictions of gross violence towards human characters, motiveless killing of multiple innocent human characters, violence towards vulnerable and defenceless human characters, and use of sexual expletives. Not suitable for persons under 18 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Embark on a journey as Alexios or Kassandra to uncover the truth about your mysterious past. Sail to the farthest reaches of the Aegean Sea and engage in naval combat, charge into battles pitting hundreds of soldiers against each other, and unleash your Special Abilities on your enemies.
Content specific issues
This game contains frequent depictions of strong violence towards human characters throughout. In one scene a male character has his hands tied behind his back and his head is being forced into a barrel of liquid and held there for some time until he gives up information. In another scene, a man who also has his hands tied behind his back is on his knees and a male character stabs him through the mouth with a long spear. You can see the spear protruding through the other side of his head. Blood drips from the wound. During gameplay, the player can kill multiple innocent and unarmed civilians. The game also contains frequent use of the word “fuck” and its derivatives.
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Ubisoft EMEA-
PlayStation 4 - 05/10/2018
Advice for consumers
This game is rated PEGI 18 which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY and is not suitable for anyone below this age. This rating has been given due to depictions of gross violence towards human characters, motiveless killing of multiple innocent human characters, violence towards vulnerable and defenceless human characters, and use of sexual expletives. Not suitable for persons under 18 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Embark on a journey as Alexios or Kassandra to uncover the truth about your mysterious past. Sail to the farthest reaches of the Aegean Sea and engage in naval combat, charge into battles pitting hundreds of soldiers against each other, and unleash your Special Abilities on your enemies.
Content specific issues
This game contains frequent depictions of strong violence towards human characters throughout. In one scene a male character has his hands tied behind his back and his head is being forced into a barrel of liquid and held there for some time until he gives up information. In another scene, a man who also has his hands tied behind his back is on his knees and a male character stabs him through the mouth with a long spear. You can see the spear protruding through the other side of his head. Blood drips from the wound. During gameplay, the player can kill multiple innocent and unarmed civilians. The game also contains frequent use of the word “fuck” and its derivatives.