TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON: BREAKPOINT Will Be Rated "M" For Mature; Check Out The ESRB's Official Description

The next Tom Clancy video game has been officially classified by the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint will feature Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, The Punisher) and be a sequel to 2017's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands. That instalment was rated "M" for mature so naturally, it's follow-up will also be.

This age rating was recently announced by the ESRB. They also released a long description of the game to justify the mature rating. Their summary references copious amounts of violence, weaponary, and vulgar language. These are, of course, things that we should expect from a video game that warrants a mature rating.

You can read the full summary for yourself below (via @Wario64):

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint ESRB description pic.twitter.com/KH7dpOx8S7

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This is a third-person shooter in which players lead a special ops unit to investigate a tech company in a military setting. Players explore an open-world environment, complete mission objectives (e.g., recon, extraction, assassinations), and engage in combat against enemy militia. Players use machine guns, rifles, rocket launchers, and explosives to kill soldiers and drone units in frenetic combat; players can also shoot and kill civilians, though this may result in a mission failure. Battles are accompanied by realistic gunfire, large explosions, and blood-splatter effects. By grappling unsuspecting enemies from behind, players can interrogate them for information, use them as human shields, and/or execute them with knife attacks. Cutscenes depict additional acts of violence: a bound prisoner repeatedly beaten with a baton; a screaming man being tortured; a soldier repeatably stabbed in the neck. The game includes brief sexual references in the dialogue (e.g., “'Now I gotcha and I'm gonna scr*w you all night long'"; “They [drones] are more than just machines. They are the world's greatest sex toy”; “But even world 2.0—it's just mud, blood, and c*m.”). The words “f**k,” “sh*t,” and “a*shole” are heard in the game.