A Way Out
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
In one interactive sequence the player helps capture and torture a man to force information out of him.
Frequent strong profanity, including f-words, throughout the gritty dialogue.
Realistic hand-to-hand fights, stabbings, and gun shootouts against human enemies with blood; a thug is beaten to death and firearms are used heavily in the final act, without dismemberment.
Alcohol and cigarettes are consumed by characters in bars and other settings.
Themes of betrayal, murder, revenge, imprisonment, and family loss drive a story with a bleak emotional gut-punch of an ending.
The players are convicted criminals who break out of prison, steal a truck and clothing, and rob a gas station as core plot actions.
Brief revealing or suggestive attire appears in some scenes.
Fish are caught in a spearfishing/fishing minigame.
A few adult, suggestive moments in dialogue and bar/nightlife settings; brief and non-explicit.
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What it is
A Way Out is a two-player-only cooperative action-adventure set in 1972, where you and a partner control two convicts, Leo and Vincent, who break out of prison and go on the run seeking revenge on the man who wronged them. Played entirely in split-screen with a friend, it mixes stealth, puzzle-solving, driving and shootout set pieces with lighter minigames like fishing, darts and arm wrestling. The story is a gritty crime drama containing realistic violence and gunfights with blood, frequent strong profanity, drinking and smoking, and a scene in which the players beat and torture a captive for information, all building to a dark, emotionally heavy ending.
How it's framed
The game frames its crimes and violence as the desperate acts of two flawed men driven by revenge and survival, presenting their bond sympathetically while treating the story's later betrayals and losses as tragedy rather than triumph; the torture and killings are dramatized as harsh consequences of the criminal world the characters inhabit.
Details
- Developer
- Hazelight Studios
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- Jun 18, 2020
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