Blood & Truth

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Language — strong
AdventureModern/RealisticShooter

What's in it

Language strong
High

Frequent strong profanity throughout the gritty London gangster dialogue.

Violence realistic
Moderate

Realistic first-person gunfights against armed human criminals with blood impacts; combat is stylized-cinematic without gore or dismemberment.

Substances depicted
Moderate

Cigarettes and alcohol appear as set dressing in casino, bar, and criminal-underworld locations.

Dark themes intense
Moderate

A story of organized crime, kidnapping, family members held at gunpoint, and a mother being murdered drives the plot.

Crime & lawlessness player commits crime
Moderate

The player character carries out break-ins, casino bombing, gallery vandalism, and armed killings while battling a crime syndicate.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Built as a cinematic first-person shooter for PlayStation VR, this title casts the player as Ryan Marks, an ex-Special Forces operative who comes back to London and sets out to shield his relatives from a brutal underworld kingpin. During play, the player shifts between defensive positions, grabs and fires an assortment of firearms against armed human opponents, and manipulates objects throughout choreographed action sequences. The experience includes lifelike shooting accompanied by blood, recurring coarse language, and a criminal-thriller plot centered on an abduction, menace aimed at loved ones, and several killings, along with incidental scenes of alcohol use and cigarettes shown within gangland and gambling-hall locations.

How it's framed

Ryan is portrayed as a courageous defender who confronts merciless criminals in order to rescue his loved ones, which casts the killing and the crimes he commits as vindicated heroics in the style of an action film. The cruelty of the antagonists supplies the emotional weight of the plot, and the overall register resembles a heightened criminal thriller instead of a lifelike or approving portrayal of wrongdoing.

Details

Developer
London Studio
Publisher
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Released
2019-05-28
Metacritic 80critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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