{"id":60305,"date":"2025-09-12T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60305\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:08:07","slug":"saber-aims-to-push-the-esrb-rating-for-hellraiser-revival-as-far-as-we-possibly-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60305\/","title":{"rendered":"Saber Aims to Push the ESRB Rating for \u2018Hellraiser: Revival\u2019 \u201cAs Far as We Possibly Can\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games plan to push the envelope with the upcoming <strong>Hellraiser: Revival<\/strong>. During an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hellraiser-revival-dev-plans-to-go-as-extreme-as-the-people-that-make-rules-will-let-us-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">IGN<\/a>, Saber development chief <strong>Tim Willits\u00a0<\/strong>stated that the team plans to push the game as far as the ESRB\u2019s M Rating will let them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to go as far as we possibly can, as far as the people that make rules will let us go,\u201d Willits states. \u201cAnd I hope that we can make one version, but we are willing to go as far as we possibly can go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those wondering why Saber wouldn\u2019t aim for an Adults Only rating, a game cannot be sold on certain platforms and at retailers if it is released unrated or rated Adults Only.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned when the game was initially revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/video-games\/3889192\/saber-interactive-reveals-hellraiser-revival-doug-bradley-returns-as-pinhead-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">back in July<\/a>, Hellraiser creator <strong>Clive Barker<\/strong> has been involved with the development of Hellraiser: Revival, and has guided the devs on what would work and what wouldn\u2019t in the context of the Hellraiser universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\" data-cy=\"paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s come back and said, \u2018Yeah, Pinhead wouldn\u2019t do that,\u2019\u201d explains Willits. \u201cAnd he\u2019s come back and said, \u2018Yeah, you got to tweak this a little bit.\u2019 Because this is [Clive\u2019s] world and he knows stuff that we don\u2019t even think about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\" data-cy=\"paragraph\">\u201cAnd he\u2019s been really fast too. Sometimes when you work with famous people you throw something over and then six months later they come back and they complain about something. No, he\u2019s that on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Hellraiser: Revival, players assume the role of Aidan, who must unlock the dark powers of a mysterious puzzle box known as the Genesis Configuration in order to help his girlfriend from a hellish abyss. You\u2019ll harness the box\u2019s infernal abilities to survive your pact with the sinister Pinhead (voiced by the returning <strong>Doug Bradley<\/strong>) and battle against the twisted cult that worships him and the Cenobites.<\/p>\n<p>This new story-driven single-player game is currently in development for PC <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1551980\/Clive_Barkers_Hellraiser_Revival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via Steam<\/a>, PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games plan to push the envelope with the upcoming Hellraiser: Revival. 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