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Subject: Parents & educators rate halo 2 and other halo's

Halo 2 for Life!

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-reviews/Halo-2.html

Halo 2:
Based on 116 parent & educator reviews:
92% say violence is an issue (we are shooting avatars)
91% say language is an issue (we did like our smack talk)
87% say -blam!- content is an issue (we did like to hump dead avatars alot)
87% say they noticed product placement (I'm confused about this...)
87% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking (we did like talking about our habits)

Also, for reference

Reach:
Based on 64 parent & educator reviews:
61% say it's easy to play
47% say violence is an issue
47% say there are positive role models
30% say there are positive messages
30% say safety or privacy is an issue

Halo 3 had two as well:
Based on 141 parent & educator reviews:
72% say language is an issue
71% say violence is an issue
59% say they noticed product placement
58% say -blam!- content is an issue
58% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking

Halo CE had two as well:
Based on 59 parent & educator reviews:
90% say violence is an issue
85% say language is an issue
76% say -blam!- content is an issue
76% say they noticed product placement
76% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking

Halo 3 ODST had two as well:
Based on 30 parent & educator reviews:
53% say it's easy to play
43% say language is an issue
40% say violence is an issue
33% say there are positive role models
30% say safety or privacy is an issue

so officially halo 2 is the most bad ass halo ever!

[Edited on 05.29.2011 1:58 AM PDT]

  • 05.28.2011 10:34 PM PDT
Subject: Kids rate halo 2...

Wait 4 Halo 4.

ratings mean BLAM BLAM

  • 05.28.2011 11:30 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Nah, Halo 2 is lame compared to this:

Duke Nukem Forever


Platform: Windows PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360


Rating: Mature


Content descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong -blam!- Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol

Rating summary:
This is a first-person shooter in which players assume the role of Duke Nukem, an action hero who must save Earth from invading aliens. Players use pistols, rail guns, shotguns, explosives, and Duke's bare hands to attack and kill the alien enemies. The majority of gameplay involves destroying these enemies in frenetic gun and laser battles in order to move on to the next section. Aliens are often decapitated or dismembered when hit, sending large splashes of blood across the ground, surrounding walls, and players' screen. Some sequences depict more 'over-the-top' instances of violence: aliens getting stabbed in the head or impaled; a human soldier bursting into bloody gibs after being tossed through propeller blades. In one sequence, players have the ability to shoot human characters that are trapped in pod-like alien webbing; bodies explode into pieces upon impact. During the course of the game, players enter a strip-club level and view several topless dancers and receive lap dances. A couple of missions within this level require players to recover sex toys and pictures of topless women. A few sequences strongly imply -blam!- acts: two women appear to perform -blam!- on the central character (e.g., raising their heads from his lap)-though there is no actual depiction of the sex act; Duke moans and leans up against the wall of a bathroom stall (furnished with a hole)-it is implied that a sex act (not depicted) occurs. The game also contains several -blam!- references and innuendo in the dialogue (e.g., 'I have hungry-you have big egg ro' for me, Duke,' 'If you supply the dancing, I'll supply the pole,' and 'I'll need something naughty to play with.'). Duke's comments range from jokes about colon cleansing to several one-liners about sex and female body parts. Bathroom humor includes the ability to urinate in toilets or urinals and/or pick up feces from toilets and throw it against walls. Players can use both steroid pills and beer as power-ups; when beer is consumed, the screen temporarily blurs. The words 'f**k,' '-blam!-,' 'c*ck,' and 'a*shole' appear in dialogue and on-screen text.



http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=30650

  • 05.29.2011 5:48 AM PDT

Posted by: JacobGRocks
Nah, Halo 2 is lame compared to this:

Duke Nukem Forever


Platform: Windows PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360


Rating: Mature


Content descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong -blam!- Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol

Rating summary:
This is a first-person shooter in which players assume the role of Duke Nukem, an action hero who must save Earth from invading aliens. Players use pistols, rail guns, shotguns, explosives, and Duke's bare hands to attack and kill the alien enemies. The majority of gameplay involves destroying these enemies in frenetic gun and laser battles in order to move on to the next section. Aliens are often decapitated or dismembered when hit, sending large splashes of blood across the ground, surrounding walls, and players' screen. Some sequences depict more 'over-the-top' instances of violence: aliens getting stabbed in the head or impaled; a human soldier bursting into bloody gibs after being tossed through propeller blades. In one sequence, players have the ability to shoot human characters that are trapped in pod-like alien webbing; bodies explode into pieces upon impact. During the course of the game, players enter a strip-club level and view several topless dancers and receive lap dances. A couple of missions within this level require players to recover sex toys and pictures of topless women. A few sequences strongly imply -blam!- acts: two women appear to perform -blam!- on the central character (e.g., raising their heads from his lap)-though there is no actual depiction of the sex act; Duke moans and leans up against the wall of a bathroom stall (furnished with a hole)-it is implied that a sex act (not depicted) occurs. The game also contains several -blam!- references and innuendo in the dialogue (e.g., 'I have hungry-you have big egg ro' for me, Duke,' 'If you supply the dancing, I'll supply the pole,' and 'I'll need something naughty to play with.'). Duke's comments range from jokes about colon cleansing to several one-liners about sex and female body parts. Bathroom humor includes the ability to urinate in toilets or urinals and/or pick up feces from toilets and throw it against walls. Players can use both steroid pills and beer as power-ups; when beer is consumed, the screen temporarily blurs. The words 'f**k,' '-blam!-,' 'c*ck,' and 'a*shole' appear in dialogue and on-screen text.



http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=30650

That's not even a game. That's porno in a disc!

  • 05.29.2011 7:02 AM PDT
Subject: Parents & educators rate halo 2 and other halo's
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"Always my pleasure to be lazy." - InvasionImminent

Posted by: JacobGRocksMeh, I've never been able to take cheesy, testosterone crazed characters/stories. I get too much of that in real life.

OT: I hate how people want to say things are good when parents hate it... The whole idea of latching onto teenage rebellion to sell a product makes me cringe. (I.e. the "Your Mom's Gonna Hate It" campaign with Dead Space 2)

[Edited on 05.29.2011 7:08 AM PDT]

  • 05.29.2011 7:04 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Well, it does sell products. Look at Duke Nukem 3d, most of the people who played it were probably 13.

In other words, ESRB reviews are better. They describe every part of the game in detail and make it sound badass.

  • 05.29.2011 8:02 AM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

one of the parents reviews:


This is a fun game, and fun to play with your child

This is a very, very fun game. It is great to play co-op with your kid, or even just let them kill you! It is a great stress reliever and is a great opportunity to teach your child some combat tactics as well. I would highly recommend this. Even the blood on the ground looks very cartoony.


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What the heck, teach your child combat tactics. Who teachs their children this.... lol.

  • 05.29.2011 1:12 PM PDT

Posted by: totallymassive
one of the parents reviews:


This is a fun game, and fun to play with your child

This is a very, very fun game. It is great to play co-op with your kid, or even just let them kill you! It is a great stress reliever and is a great opportunity to teach your child some combat tactics as well. I would highly recommend this. Even the blood on the ground looks very cartoony.


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What the heck, teach your child combat tactics. Who teachs their children this.... lol.
lol, self-defense is a combat tactic, isn't it? Granted, we should not teach kids how to start a nuclear war, we should teach them basic tactics if attacked. It's the world we live in.

  • 05.29.2011 1:21 PM PDT
Subject: Kids rate halo 2...

This is a Reach account that I created the day they announced his name in a bnet weekly update. Any stats regarding ODST or Halo 3 are irrelevant. Also, Halo CE master race. Halo 1 > other halo games > other games.

Account Status: Silver :(

I don't see your point at all. 100 people is an unreliable sample seeing there are millions that play these games.

  • 05.29.2011 9:12 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

it's better then going off of nothing.
Posted by: NOBLE SlX
I don't see your point at all. 100 people is an unreliable sample seeing there are millions that play these games.

  • 05.29.2011 10:03 PM PDT
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  • Noble Heroic Member

"A life lived for others is the only life worth living" - Albert Einstein

"I have your RCON right here." - Iggwilv

"Always my pleasure to be lazy." - InvasionImminent

Hmm.... Halo based combat tactics in real life... Because that wouldn't get you killed in 5 seconds, right?

  • 05.29.2011 10:11 PM PDT

Gamers Anon

Achronos: And what's this about a "design team" I've been hearing? Apparently stosh is so awesome he's now considered a "team".


Posted by: JacobGRocks
I am unsure as to why you bought up Duke Nukem.

  • 05.29.2011 10:37 PM PDT

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Flame of the south, lightbringer, morning sun; Hail LUCIFER!
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Mount of the north, wrath of the underworld; Hail BELIAL!

Where the hell is drinking and smoking in the halogames??? these people havn`t even played the games!! they are just anti video games.

Cpt. keyes pipe and johnsons cigar? are you kidding?

  • 05.30.2011 3:23 AM PDT
Subject: Parents & educators rate halo 2 and other halo's

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.


Posted by: Muzza777

Posted by: JacobGRocks
I am unsure as to why you bought up Duke Nukem.


Because TotallyMassive has a bad taste in picking out the best parent reviews.

Old people for example, are good reviewers

[Edited on 05.30.2011 6:16 AM PDT]

  • 05.30.2011 6:15 AM PDT
Subject: Kids rate halo 2...

Halo 2 for Life!

see a few cut scenes with johnson and him fighting with a cigar in his mouth (if I recall correctly) is probably enough for these people to recal it and rate it accordingly
Posted by: The Somberlain
Where the hell is drinking and smoking in the halogames??? these people havn`t even played the games!! they are just anti video games.

Cpt. keyes pipe and johnsons cigar? are you kidding?

  • 06.01.2011 9:33 PM PDT