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  • Poll [79 votes]: ODST Rating: To GORE, or no gore?
Subject: ODST Rating: To GORE, or no gore?
Poll: ODST Rating: To GORE, or no gore?  [closed]
Lots of blood and gore. Yep.:  39%
(31 Votes)
Don't like blood and gore. Nope.:  28%
(22 Votes)
I drink blood for afternoon tea.:  33%
(26 Votes)
Total Votes: 79

The rating hasn't been officially announced yet (I believe), so anything is possible in Halo 3: ODST. Anything.

If the game is rated the usual M, then we won't be expecting much blood or gore, obviously. But what if ODST is rated MA 15+? Then there's an opportunity for some real *Honk*.

Some real *Honk* I would like to see in ODST, if it's rated the latter, is definately some stuff featured in the original Halo 3 ViDoc, Et, Tu Brute?
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Watched it? Good, now you must know what I ment by *Honk*. Moving on.

When I saw the gorey features in that video for the first time, such as the Brute ripping the marines arms off, and the Elite slashing both of a Brute's lower legs off with twin Energy Swords, finishing him with a stab in the stomach, I was literally wowed. I was a little disappointed when we didn't see those scenes in Halo 3 itself, but it didn't turn me off of the game too much, luckily.

If it doesn't have a chance in ODST, then Reach would be the next step. Trust me, you'll wanna expect Reach to be graphic. What Bungie has done can't be undone, but what would you like to see?

=)

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  • 08.15.2009 9:53 PM PDT

Posted by: Dropship dude
No, acnboy. Spartain Ken 15 is a lesser being. Much like the bacteria that lives in your shi­t.
Posted by: mike120593
My shi­t bacteria takes offense to that comparison.

Don't make me lel. You won't like me when I lel.

Hey Chup. Most people here are americans so you might want to change that to ESRB or PEGI or something like that.
But yeah, If I get hit with a lazer, I want to have a -blam!- big hole blown in me. I want a cracked visor if I get head shotted, I want to be blown to pieces by rockets. I WANT GORE and GIBS!

  • 08.15.2009 10:03 PM PDT

ESRB lol? What the hell is that?

=)

  • 08.15.2009 10:10 PM PDT

Posted by: Dropship dude
No, acnboy. Spartain Ken 15 is a lesser being. Much like the bacteria that lives in your shi­t.
Posted by: mike120593
My shi­t bacteria takes offense to that comparison.

Don't make me lel. You won't like me when I lel.

The ratings for just about Everywhere but Australia.

  • 08.15.2009 10:11 PM PDT

You mean, these people have no idea what I'm talking about?

Ok... What's MA 15+ is ESRB lol?

  • 08.15.2009 10:14 PM PDT

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The blood/gore ratio is probably not going to change, I do like gore, but I must admit that Halo has kept a tastful aspect on it, Spartans only emit a little bit of blood. They don't have a classic japanese samurai movie amount, just enough to get the point across, now what I would like to see is actual armor damage! (character being alive, but armor beaten by war, or dead with armor beaten by war!)

  • 08.15.2009 10:16 PM PDT

C'mon people, just a tincy wince more? For me!?

=)

  • 08.16.2009 1:04 AM PDT

But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.

No, Halo isn't a game where theres people saying the F word a million times (Call of Duty WAW) and blood comes out everywhere. Anyway the covenant have purple blood lol.

  • 08.16.2009 1:06 AM PDT

But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.

Posted by: random no337
The ratings for just about Everywhere but Australia.

Aussies FTW! We don't have the 17+ thing. We just have the normal ratings.

  • 08.16.2009 1:08 AM PDT

Posted by: Seargent Major
No, Halo isn't a game where theres people saying the F word a million times (Call of Duty WAW) and blood comes out everywhere. Anyway the covenant have purple blood lol.

1. You didn't play Halo: CE, did you? Wait, let me answer that. No.

For it was Halo 3 that turned it's back on gore. I don't Halo to turn in a new direction, I want it to turn back.

=)

  • 08.16.2009 1:09 AM PDT

Irony makes the strongest men fall to their knees!

It's probably not going to change, the only reason it was rated MA (don't care about the age) is the Flood, because they can be blown to bits and what not. It was really never intentioned to have limbs everywhere like that. And you do know how much work it takes to make limbs and stuff come apart?


Edit: And Halo Combat Evolved has the same rating as Halo 3, because of the Flood, I know you are probably thinking about the first time you fight the flood and you see all the Grunt blood on the wall, the ESRB overlooks that because it's not Human Blood, as in Humans did not die in that spot. It was just a bunch of fluorescent alien blood. Halo Combat Evolved and Halo 3's Engine are the same engine, it just has been build upon for years and years. Don't believe me look it up, if you have the excuse of to lazy, then theoretically everything you can do in Halo 3 you can bring over to Halo Custom Edition (I used Halo Custom Edition because you don't have access to the tools for Halo Combat Evolved.)

[Edited on 08.16.2009 1:40 AM PDT]

  • 08.16.2009 1:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: Chupanebre627
Posted by: Seargent Major
No, Halo isn't a game where theres people saying the F word a million times (Call of Duty WAW) and blood comes out everywhere. Anyway the covenant have purple blood lol.

1. You didn't play Halo: CE, did you? Wait, let me answer that. No.

For it was Halo 3 that turned it's back on gore. I don't Halo to turn in a new direction, I want it to turn back.

=)

the man has a point, halo 1, while not being all that "gory" at least had copious amounts of blood, and also, as many bullet holes as you could fit on a wall, fire Halo CE up should you still own it, grab a hog and start pelting a wall and marvel at it, throw a grenade on a dead elite and watch the purple blood coat the room

I find it odd that they did these two things so well in the first halo but not again

  • 08.16.2009 1:42 AM PDT

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Remember i heard something that said the flood were the reason it was gore in h=the prev. halo games. but i do like the cod style perspective of being blown up

WHICH DOESNT HAPPEN IN HALO OR ODST REMEMBER ITS STILL HALO 3 BUT WITH CHANGES SO IT WONT HAVE GORE!!!

  • 08.16.2009 2:31 AM PDT

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Well halo 3 was a 15 in the UK, and I expect ODST will be as well, or it may be a 16.
I'm hoping CE levels of gore will be back though. When you stuck a grunt it was hard to tell the difference between the plasma explosion and the blue blood flying everywhere. Good times.

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  • 08.16.2009 2:36 AM PDT

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NO WAY WOULD IT BE A 16 I MEAN NO FLOOD??? THATS GOT TO BE A 15 EVEN IN AMERICA COS THAT IN MY OPINION WAS THE REASON IT WAS A 16 IN AMERICA ( i think it it should have been in UK 2 but YAY otherwise i would'nt be aloud it!)

  • 08.16.2009 2:39 AM PDT
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the ESRB rating has been out for ages

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your poll is rubish wheres the "i dont mind option" or the some "some but not alot"?

gees if your gonna make a poll at least give evryones veiws a chance.

[Edited on 08.16.2009 3:46 AM PDT]

  • 08.16.2009 3:45 AM PDT

Get in the flask!

the top and bottom one seem the same

  • 08.16.2009 3:54 AM PDT

I would like to see them encorporate more from that Vidoc. Such as tipping over Warthogs and pinning marines up against the wall. Unscripted of course. And I'd like them to be doing things that aren't related to fighting.

They're in a dead city, looking for any left over survivors, they're bound to get bored.

  • 08.16.2009 4:27 AM PDT

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the rating is everywhere i think, it is a 16.

  • 08.16.2009 4:43 AM PDT

Formally Rogue Spartan

PEGI 16+

  • 08.16.2009 5:34 AM PDT

Posted by: Dropship dude
No, acnboy. Spartain Ken 15 is a lesser being. Much like the bacteria that lives in your shi­t.
Posted by: mike120593
My shi­t bacteria takes offense to that comparison.

Don't make me lel. You won't like me when I lel.

For everyone confused about the ratings, when we said M, we meant the australian M (which is mateure audiences recommended or about 13+) Halo 1 and 2, however, were rated MA15+ in australia, which is restricted to 15 and over. Halo 3 was much less bloody than the first two, and i could like to see more blood and gore for reach or ODST

  • 08.22.2009 3:22 PM PDT

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Posted by: Seargent Major
Posted by: random no337
The ratings for just about Everywhere but Australia.

Aussies FTW! We don't have the 17+ thing. We just have the normal ratings.


UK has:
U=Universal
PG= Parental guidence
12= 12 years or older
15= 15 years or older
18= 18 years or older

Cant get much easier to understand than that :)

  • 08.22.2009 4:18 PM PDT

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Oh yeah and i wouldnt mind a bit of covenant gore like Halo 3, but if it looks like Fallout 3 with bloody mess turned on then thats just overdoing it.

  • 08.22.2009 4:20 PM PDT

-I was here

its rated M, or at least thats what the game stop people said

  • 08.22.2009 4:21 PM PDT