Skull and Bones now has an ESRB rating

Skull and Bones
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Ubisoft's seafaring adventure, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Skull and Bones, has been rated "Mature" by the ESRB.

It'll be good news for pirate-loving players who've been waiting some time for information about Ubisoft's all-new IP, Skull and Bones, which - at the time of writing - still doesn't have a release window, let alone a solid date (although rumor has it, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:that may be about to change).

explains, giving us a🐠 sneak i🐈nsight into the game's gameplay and mechanics. 

"As players take on missions, they can explore settlements and engage in dramatic sea battles. From a first-pe♛rson persp𝔍ective, players command their crew to shoot cannons at rivals (e.g., warships, merchant ships, settlements/forts) in attempts to obtain loot/goods. 

"Enemy ships can be rammed and boarded, resulting in brief cutscenes of crew members shooting or slashing at each other. Combat is highlighted by gunfire/cannon fire, explosions, and blood-splatter effects. 𒊎Some territories depict corpses impaled on spikes or hanging from nooses; beaches may depict corpses and large bloodstains in the aftermath of battle."

We even get a l🌱ittle info🐻rmation about the settlements we may visit, too, which sound like they'll include opium dens and brothels, the employees of which will shout saucy stuff at us to shiver our timbers. 

Of course, this isn't the first time Skull and Bones has gone before a country's rating board, and it's already received classification in Brazil and,澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: last month, Australia. It does, however, suggest the game is com🦩ing sooner rather than later.❀ Hopefully, anyway. 

The pirate multiplayer game from Ubisoft will seemingly launch across PC, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X/S, and Google Stadia, and its "production" year is listed on these rating sites as this year in 2022. That makes sense, as Ubisoft has long said Skull and Bones was targeting a release date near the end of the 2022 financial year, which would be March 2023 at the latest.

It all adds credence to yesterday's rumor that Ubisoft is set to showcase Skull and Bones' changes and improvements sometime in the week commencing July 4.

"Sources have said that Ubisoft is preparing to re-reveal Skull and Bones during the week of July 4," the insider said at the time. "Details ♎on what will be revealed are vague, but it’s understood that Ubisoft will finally confirm a release date for the long-awaited title, officially reveal gameplay, and share some other additional details."

Beleaguered by setbacks and delays, Skull and Bones was originally revealed at E3 2017, and we've seen and heard surpris🥃ingly little since then beyond getting delay announcements in 2018 and t💟hen again in 2019.

Read up on our澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: new games 2022 guide for a complete look at all the games launching over the next few months.

Vikki Blake
Weekend Reporter, GamesRadar+

Vikki Blake is GamesRadar+'s Weekend Reporter. Vikki works tirelessly to ensure that you have something to read on the days of the week beginning with 'S', and can also be found contrib🍃uting to outlets including the BBC, Eurogamer, and GameIndustry.biz. Vikki also runs a weekly games column at NME, and can be frequently found talking about Desti🐟ny 2 and Silent Hill on Twitter.