The Callisto Protocol will feature plenty of violence and gore as revealed in its official Mature rating. There are dismemberment and impalement among other things mentioned in the rating.
The game is being made by Striking Distance Studios. The co-creator of Dead Space, Glen Schofield is working on it so fans of the series are stoked to see more from it. Since Dead Space had quite a lot of gory moments, The Callisto Protocol is going to up the ante and offer more of the same.
As expected from the recent trailer and a rating given by IMDA Singapore, the game will be violent and offer plenty of gore for those who enjoy such content. There are jump scares as well so hopefully, you are ready for it.
Set in the distant future, “The Callisto Protocol” is a sci-fi survival horror game which revolves around Jacob Lee, a cargo ship pilot who crashes on Jupiter’s moon, Callisto, and becomes imprisoned in the maximum-security Black Iron Prison. When inmates begin to transform into monstrous creatures, he must fight them to survive and escape while uncovering sinister secrets surrounding the mysterious moon.
The game is rated M18 for violence and gore.
Played from a third-person perspective, the player explores dark and decrepit locations where bloodstains and bodily remains can be encountered. To progress through the game, the player must employ melee weapons, guns, and environmental hazards to fight and kill mutated and human enemies. There are some jump-scare moments when enemies suddenly appear to attack the player. Getting caught by an enemy can result in the player being killed. In addition, the player must navigate treacherous environments, such as using torrents of water to meander through and avoid spiked pillars and rotating fan blades, or risk being impaled or dismembered upon impact.
Throughout the game, there are graphic depictions of violence when the player beats up, stomps, or uses guns to fire at humans and mutated creatures. Stronger depictions feature enemies being dismembered and decapitated with copious bloodletting portrayed. The player can also use a spinning woodchipper to obliterate enemies, resulting in blood mists seen. Such depictions of violence are contained under the M18 rating, where the Classification Guidelines allow “depictions of realistic violence, such as killing, maiming or causing other serious injury to humanoid characters.”
Coarse language is uttered by characters, such as the expletive “f**k”. There is also the use of crude language, such as “bitch” and “shit”.
Players will assume the role of Jacob Lee in The Callisto Protocol, a victim of fate imprisoned in Black Iron Prison, a high-security facility on Jupiter’s moon. It is a third-person, story-driven survival horror game that takes place 300 years in the future. The basic premise of the game is that the convicts start to transform into terrifying creatures, which causes chaos in the prison. To survive, Jacob must escape from Black Iron Prison while looking into the sinister secrets that lie under Callisto’s surface. To outrun the growing threat and escape the horrors of Jupiter’s Dead Moon, Jacob will need to change his strategy for dealing with the rapidly evolving monsters while scavenging to find new weapons, gear, and abilities.
The Callisto Protocol is currently scheduled to launch on December 2, 2022, It will be released for the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and PC. It is being published by Krafton and will be developed by Striking Distance Studios. Glen Schofield is overseeing the game while in parallel, EA has also announced a re-imaging of the original Dead Space set to launch in 2023.
