Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is rated M for Mature 17+ by the ESRB with Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, and Strong Language. This is an action-adventure game in which players assume the role of Lara Croft, an explorer who investigates a mystery surrounding an ancient queen. From a third-person perspective, players explore ruins and industrial environments, solve puzzles, and engage in combat with various enemies (e.g., cultists, soldiers, samurai-like warriors, wolves). Players use knives, pistols, shotguns, rifles, and grenade launchers to battle enemies. During several sequences, Lara is depicted getting stabbed, beaten, strangled, or shot by enemies; these close-up deaths occur as fail scenarios, usually when players miss certain action cues. A handful of cutscenes also depict enemy characters shot at close range. Large blood-splatter effects occur when characters are hit; one level depicts a demonic lair covered in dismembered human corpses—scattered limbs and pools of blood are prominent. The game also includes drug references in a comic-book panel (e.g., “[W]e got caught in a drug den shootout” and “But drug money buys good lawyers”). The words “f**k” and “sh*t” can be heard in the dialogue.