Parents guide

Brucie discusses "bull-shark testosterone" steroid injections, to which Niko makes a comment about it effecting "your balls."

An in-game cartoon shows 2 space marines go under covers and the covers are seen rumbling and the covers float away and then the marines chase the covers to cover themselves up. No nudity is shown and it's very cartoonish.

There are women implied to be hookers that walk around and are dressed in fairly provocative clothing.

Players can pick up prostitutes and you can select from 3 different animations.

The opening scene features a man in his underwear being whipped by a woman, also in her underwear.

Way tamer on sexual content than some other games in the series. There's a strip club but it's optional and there's no nudity. The main campaign is equivalent in appropriateness to rdr2 in my opinion.

If you avoid the strip club and hookers, it's just mild sexual references every now and then.

References that might fly over younger people's heads.

None.

One mission involves Niko going into a sex shop although you cannot interact with anything and all of the posters and videos are nearly impossible to make out due to poor resolution it just makes it look really grainy and blurry.

Fist fights using martial arts moves both free roam and cut scenes

Lot of fights using stylized punches and kicks

A man is smacked twice with a hacksaw in one cutscene.

One mission requires the player to kidnap a woman. On the way to the safehouse, she tries multiple times to distract the player before he punches her.

Lots of extreme bloody shootouts with guns.

Lot of action including fights with both hands and guns , car chase and violent shootouts.

You can kill inoccent people and cops also other criminals blood splatters when people are shot.

Violence scale: 5/5.

Level of violence: 7/10. Strong violence.

Lots of bloody brutal violence throughout.

One use of the N word although it is very easy to miss.

F**k, s*it and bi**h are used occasionally but not often while other milder terms such as Damn, and Hell are used more often.

Occasional uses of fuck and 1 use of whore.

In one cutscene Niko sees a scantily clad prostitute and says "Another common liberty city street whore" although that is the only use of the word in the game.

Language scale: 4.5/5.

One Jamaican offensive word "bomboclat" used in some occasions.

F**k is used 420 times in the campaign. May seem like a lot but it's in an over 10 hour campaign.

The character Yusuf Amir (seen mostly in the TBoGT DLC) says the N-word, a derogatory racial slur towards African-Americans.

The language in this game is not as bad as in San Andreas, but there is still occasional use of strong language.

Additional foul language such as "Fuck", "Shit", "Bitch", "Damn", "Hell" and some limited uses of "Whore" are also used.

A man is implied to be a heroin addict. He is never shown using it but it is talked about.

A woman is implied to be a heroin addict. It is never shown but is talked about.

Drugs and Alcohol scale: 5/5.

Marijuana has a very prominent role among the Jamaican characters in-game.

This game takes place around the same time that the smoking ban in New York City was first being implemented. One of the characters in-game ignores the law and smokes cigarettes in a bar and numerous characters make dialogue references to this.

One of the characters is seen pretty often smoking a marijuana joint and is said to be a dealer.

There is one mission where you must find a stolen bag of cocaine although the substance is never shown you see the bag with white powder in it.

Players can become intoxicated and drive. The game penalizes the player for doing so by making it difficult to steer and drive, and any nearby police will also converge on the player if this attempted. The option to hail a taxi is given, but due to inability to walk properly, it is made very difficult to actually do this, which may lead some players to simply try to drive.

Grand Theft Auto IV is an open-world violent crime drama with lots of strong bloody violence, drug use, sex and numerous amounts of criminal acts.

Darker and more violent than GTA V but way tamer on cursing and sexual content.

Frightening and Intense Scenes: 5/5.

Rated R for Strong Brutal Violence,Language, some Sexual content And Drug Content.

This game is frightening when they dispatch NOOSE and FIB who drive pure black vehicles after the player.

17/18+ if you play the game normally. Mature 12/13 year old if you skip cutscenes with laungage or vielonce and avoid strip club.

Niko's past is discussed at length throughout the game's plot, particularly him being involved in the Yugoslav Wars and a traitor giving his squad up for money. On some occasions he describes the events of the war, saying he "watched my friends die", and saw "a line of fifty children with their throats slit and their hands chopped off", and that "it ruined me".

The dramatic nature of the game, although layered with comical elements, may unsettle some players especially with the extreme amounts of violence. The story's depth is surprising and emotional.

Many viewers may consider the violence, anti-law, sexual content, drug use and language to be offensive.