Heavy Rain

Scenes of violence and blood include using weapons to fight characters (the worst being watching someone impaled by a drill), seeing corpses at crime scenes in a bathtub or under a tarp, and, while not shown "on camera," one character who must cut off his finger using a saw (and players will hear screams of agony). The latter is particularly disturbing because the character does it to save his son, and the game lingers on his dread of doing the act.

The game includes some scenes of nudity (bare breasts and buttocks for both male and female characters), including a forced female striptease at gunpoint. There's also some sensual interaction between characters such as fondling and kissing, played out like a game as players must press the correct buttons on the controller in a timely manner to progress through the act (long kisses, undoing a bra, sensual groping, and so on). The act of sexual intercourse isn't seen -- but it's implied -- as a topless woman in seen lying on top of a shadowy figure (what appears to be a man) and she has a look of pleasure on her face. Also, early on in the game, the P.I. character enters a seedy hotel room used for prostitution (the mother of one of the victims) and is asked to leave money on the table before the "act," which they don't commit.

Swearing can be heard throughout the game, including "f--k," motherf--ker," "s--t," and "assh--e." It's not excessive, but this dialogue-heavy mature game does contain foul language peppered throughout the adventure.

There are some scenes of drinking alcohol, characters addicted to a fictional drug (in vials), white powder that implies cocaine use, and some cigarette smoking. The four characters you control don't use any of this -- other than being able to pull a beer out of your fridge (as Ethan) to drink it -- but these actions are witnessed by the player.