Death Stranding 2 ESRB Rating Suggests Players Can Actually Use THAT Melee Weapon From the Trailer

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach includes an unconventional melee weapon, according to its ESRB rating.

Warning! Potential Death Stranding 2 spoilers follow:

The U.S. Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has erstwhile again dropped an unsolicited hint astir an unreleased game, this clip confirming successful Death Stranding 2's standing summary that arsenic good arsenic the anticipated "open-world scenery to present assorted goods and packages" arsenic a courier "attempting to reconnect nine successful a post-apocalyptic world," players volition beryllium capable to bash worldly to decease with a guitar.

This whitethorn not beryllium the archetypal clip you've heard of this unsocial limb — interestingly, Higgs literally shreds successful the announcement trailer posted implicit a twelvemonth agone present — but astatine the time, fans weren't definite if that was conscionable thing Higgs got to indulge in. Now it seems we'll either get to stone retired arsenic Sam with a guitar limb of his own, oregon we'll get to play arsenic Higgs and usage his. It's not wide which. It could beryllium both!

"This is an enactment crippled successful which players presume the relation of a courier (Sam Porter Bridges) attempting to reconnect nine successful a post-apocalyptic world," the ESRB summary reads.

"From a third-person perspective, players traverse an open-world scenery to present assorted goods and packages. Along the way, players tin prosecute successful combat against quality soldiers, conflict androids, and ghostly apparitions. Players usage melee weapons (e.g., conflict guitar) and firearms (e.g., instrumentality guns, sniper rifles) to termination enemies."

Players tin expect realistic gunfire, blood, and slow-motion effects, arsenic good arsenic stealthy takedowns "to incapacitate soldiers discreetly." There volition besides beryllium further sequences with "additional acts of unit and/or gore," including immoderate dude losing his hands and legs to a robot samurai, different who's chopped successful fractional by an unspecified elephantine machine, and a antheral acceptable alight "in a fantastical manner."

Death Stranding 2 is, arsenic you'd expected, rated Mature 17+.

Death Stranding 2 is retired connected June 26, 2025. Hideo Kojima is besides moving connected a live-action Death Stranding movie with A24, and we precocious learned that a Death Stranding anime is besides successful the works. He's besides moving connected a PlayStation exclusive enactment espionage task called Physint, and called the upcoming Xbox-published OD "a crippled I person ever wanted to make."

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