Rated M for MENTAL

Hide your children.

So it seems ESRB, the American software rating association, has given STALKER 2 an M (for Mature) rating. No peeps under 17 years old shall be let inside the Exclusion Zone, the jury concluded. 

Until now the game was pending rating whatsoever. Even interesting is the way the whole product was described on the official ESRB page:

"This is a first-person shooter in which players assume the role of a stalker investigating a mystery in a post-apocalyptic world. Players explore an open-world environment to complete objectives, interact with characters, and engage enemies (e.g., soldiers, mutated creatures) in frenetic firefights. Players use machine guns, rifles, and explosives to kill enemies that emit splatters of blood when shot. Some environments depict bloodstains on walls and large pools of blood underneath corpses. Anomalies in the environment can cause bodies and creatures to explode, resulting in chunks of flesh littering the ground; one sequence depicts decapitated heads on spikes. Players have the ability to kill civilians, though this can result in immediate retaliation from nearby characters; a cutscene depicts a bound man executed at close range. During the course of the game, players' character can consume alcohol, resulting in screen-blurring effects and the character swaying; one cutscene depicts players' character smoking a cigarette from a first-person perspective. The word “f**k” is heard in the game."

In the end, very good indication that the TIME IS COMING. Release, I mean!