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ESRB updates - Icarian gets a rating, Overturn coming to North America

by rawmeatcowboy
03 May 2009
GN 1.0 / 2.0

Icarian: Kindred Spirits

Platform: Wii

Rating: Everyone

Content descriptors: Mild Fantasy Violence

Rating summary: This is a side-scrolling platformer game in which players control Nyx, a winged girl, as she makes her way through ancient ruins to search for a missing friend. Players run on and fly over platforms, navigate around hazards and obstacles, and encounter occasional enemy creatures. Players can use wind, fireballs, and lightning bolts to defeat the enemies, causing them to disappear in a puff of smoke.

Overturn

Platform: Wii

Rating: Everyone 10+

Content descriptors: Fantasy Violence

Rating summary: This is a futuristic fighting game in which players compete in tournament-style battles using customizable robots. Presented from a third-person perspective, the game allows players to use a targeting crosshair to launch laser fire at robot opponents that hover across stadium fields, carrier platforms, and arena grids. Players use an assortment of fantastical weapons (futuristic rockets, lasers, grenades, track mines) to defeat their opponents. Laser fire and mild explosions can be heard throughout the game.

Thanks to Worrybomb for the heads up!