Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection

Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection is rated M for Mature 17+ by the ESRB with Blood, Crude Humor, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, and Strong Language. This is a collection of action games in which players follow the story of characters from the Metal Gear Solid franchise. Players assume the role of elite soldiers through counter terrorist and military missions, using pistols, machine guns, and rocket launchers to kill various enemies (e.g., human soldiers, giant robots). Players can also employ close-up stealth attacks (e.g., choking and slitting throats from behind) to defeat enemies. Firefights are highlighted by screams of pain, realistic gunfire, and blood-splatter effects (blood also stains the ground). Some games allow non-adversary characters/prisoners to be injured or killed; cutscenes also depict intense acts of violence: enemy soldiers executed at point-blank range; a restrained character beaten during an interrogation. A comic-book-style sequence (hand-drawn still images) depicts a young character using a knife to execute captured soldiers. Some games in the collection include suggestive/sexual material: a man briefly groping a character's breasts; a male character's buttocks exposed as he runs through levels. In some sequences, players can enter a cardboard box ("Love Pack") to engage in sexual acts with another character—there is no depiction of the sexual acts, though moaning sounds occur. Players also have the ability to unlock a “Snake Beater” award after repeatedly zooming in on a picture of a woman in lingerie. A handful of sequences include depictions of bathroom humor (e.g., a character defecating inside his pants; a character urinating off a platform onto another character). The game includes references to drugs in the dialogue (e.g., “The biggest cocaine consume in the world is the United States" and "How'd he get the cocaine?"). The words “f**k” and “sh*t” can be heard in dialogue.