• Unlike Every Past Halo FPS, Halo 5 Earns a Teen ESRB Rating
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The ESRB is irrelevant. See: parents buying GTA for their kids, COD for kids (which has the adverse effect of 12 year olds on voice chat screaming random shit), etc.
Halo games have always been +15/16 in europe
I don't think very many kids are interested in playing The Last of Us
Halo 1 was deserving of an M rating. Tons of blood, IIRC it's the only Halo game that has a blood splatter sound effect. You can kill flood to bits, theres an Elite with his chest ripped open, the captain keys flood captain, etc. Halo 2 and 3 are also deserving of it. Especially the parts where the flood come in. Halo 2 doesn't get too brutal with gore, but in my opinion, Halo 2 was the most dark and real looking game out of the trilogy. Halo 3 wasn't too bad but I'm guessing humans/covenant getting infected by flood was a big factor. It's been awhile since I've played ODST or Reach, so I can't speak for those currently.
[QUOTE=Ki11aFTFW;48446730]Halo 1 was deserving of an M rating. Tons of blood, IIRC it's the only Halo game that has a blood splatter sound effect. You can kill flood to bits, theres an Elite with his chest ripped open, the captain keys flood captain, etc. Halo 2 and 3 are also deserving of it. Especially the parts where the flood come in. Halo 2 doesn't get too brutal with gore, but in my opinion, Halo 2 was the most dark and real looking game out of the trilogy. Halo 3 wasn't too bad but I'm guessing humans/covenant getting infected by flood was a big factor. It's been awhile since I've played ODST or Reach, so I can't speak for those currently.[/QUOTE] The reason Halo 1 probably had an M rating was pretty much because of the Flood, and their reappearances in 2 and 3 obviously bolster things. They were showing off the game to the ESRB and the moment they saw the grotesque Flood, they immediately demanded the game be rated M because of just how horrifying the damn things were. All the extra gore and so forth involved were pretty much just toppings. Reach is pretty brutal with its deaths, seeing as [sp]Kat gets shot clean in the head, and Emile or whoever the guy with the skull pattern on his helmet was gets impaled on-screen[/sp], not to mention the Assassinations, but I never played ODST to really gauge any M-rated moments in that besides [sp]that one asshole who repeatedly tries to rape a girl only to get torn into bloody shreds by a mob.[/sp] And Halo 4 does delve into a little body horror with the Composer. So if Halo 5 is T for Teen, that means there's probably no flood, no horrorific shit distinctly happening to people, and probably less explicit deaths despite assassinations being kept. Which probably means Assassinations aren't partly responsible for Reach's rating.
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