Saints Row Reboot Allows Players to Toggle Topless Nudity

A new official rating revealed that the upcoming video game Saints Row reboot will have the option to go topless naked.

Volition has said in the past that players have the freedom to customize their characters to whatever they want within the realm of the game. That means if the game can provide optional accessories to the player, they can easily make that character that they wanted. There are almost no limits to this and it seems with this new rating, it could go well beyond nudity.

The official IMDA Singapore rating revealed that the game will have violent and mature content. They also specified that it will have tons of nudity in it. This included female topless nudity, which meant it will let players see exposed breasts while playing the game, which could be distracting, but it is an option for them to choose.

If the player is willing to cover those up, there is a setting that will censor those private parts if they wanted to. They can choose to do this via the menu settings. While these are on, they will be “concealed by mosaic patches or cartoon emojis”.

Here’s the full description on the website:

“Saints Row (2022)” is a reboot of the open-world, third-person action series, and is set in the fictional, crime-ridden American city of Santo Ilesto. In this instalment, the player assumes the role of “The Boss”, who leads a team of discontented characters from three criminal gangs to wrestle power from their organisations.

The game is rated M18 for mature themes, violence and coarse language.

The player will control the protagonist from a third-person perspective to explore the city on foot or in vehicles. Through a series of missions and side-quests, the player engages in a range of criminal activities, including heists, assassinations and scams. Completion of these tasks will progress the narrative and grant rewards such as cash and experience points.

Throughout the game, there are scenes of graphic violence where the player can use a variety of weapons to kill human enemies, such as shotguns, rocket launchers and assault rifles. The player can also employ melee attacks and ride various vehicles, such as cars, tanks and aircraft, to maim enemy characters and damage other vehicles. Such scenes of violence often result in copious blood buffs and splatters being portrayed.

Aside from violence against rival gangs and law enforcement, the player can indiscriminately attack pedestrians and bystanders, but is never instructed to. Engaging in combat often results in the player temporarily gaining notoriety which increases the game difficulty.

Under the M18 rating, the Classification Guidelines permit “depictions of realistic violence, such as killing, maiming or causing other serious injury to humanoid characters”, and “content that requires the player to engage in illegal activities or play the role of a criminal, but without detailed instructions for committing crimes”.

Coarse language is frequently uttered by characters and seen in the English subtitles, and can also be heard in the soundtrack. Expletives include “motherf**ker” and “f**k”, and there is also the use of crude language such as “shit”, “hell” and “ass”, as well as explicit sexual references. These are contained under the M18 rating, where the Classification Guidelines permit “frequent use of strong coarse language, such as “f**k” and “motherf**ker”.

The game may depict some nudity, including female topless nudity. The player character has the option to go nude, with choices to modify the size of certain body parts such as the chest and groin during character customisation. Vital parts are concealed by mosaic patches or cartoon emojis, but the nipples can optionally be shown through a menu toggle. The M18 Guidelines allow “depiction of topless nudity or occasional full-frontal nudity. Nudity should not titillate or be the main feature of the game”.

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Verbal references during one scene allude to a man being involved in romantic relations with other men, but there are no visual depictions of the relationships or any intimacy. The M18 Classification Guidelines allow the depiction of “some homosexual content, if discreet in treatment and not gratuitous”.