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Subject: What are the chances of HALO 2 being rated T?
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To put a long story into a short paragraph if the game is rated M I will not be able to play the game. I will not be able to have it at work, or in my house. While I am a Resident Director at a College and I will not be able to have HALO 2 tournaments.

With the rating suppose to be T = PG13 and M = R I have not seen the need for HALO being rated M and with all the new "-blam!- oriented" games possibly being rated M I would think that the rating system would finally get fixed and HALO 2 would have a chance of being rated T.

I mean when Splinter Cell and Medal of Honor can be rated T why cannot HALO get some UConn Loving rating of T?

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  • 05.20.2004 8:48 AM PDT

About as likely as purple flour being toxic.

  • 05.20.2004 8:50 AM PDT

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Play on Legendary and you will see ( well, hear anyway) why Halo got an M rating.

Not to mention the rampant violence - a lot of parents don't like that. Neither did Leibermann.

  • 05.20.2004 8:53 AM PDT
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I still don't see why Halo is rated "M". The language isn't more than what you would hear in a PG-13 movie. The violence isn't that bad at all. They could have done more with it for an "M" rating, like when you contact shoot an elite with a shot gun.....

Halo 2......that could be a different story......

  • 05.20.2004 8:57 AM PDT
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The chances of Halo 2 being rated "T?" About the same chance as a popcicle surviving an hour in a steel mill. Did you listen to the language in the old E3 demo? One of the soldiers used the "s" word. Also, some politicians (no names included to protect the stupid) tend to blame human nature and violence on the video games industry. Therefore, the ESRB tends to think that violent games that include even a drop of blood should be rated "M."

  • 05.20.2004 8:59 AM PDT

Actually, in Britiain it's not even rated (well, the sort of rating that legally binds the retailers).

  • 05.20.2004 8:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: goweb
Actually, in Britiain it's not even rated (well, the sort of rating that legally binds the retailers).


Luckely, in the netherlands, nobody really cares about the rating, it's there, just because it has be there. Altough....A wghile ago, a 40 year old female lawyer, tried to drive over a politician (she was confused or something, apperantly she didn't even know it was a politician.) and immidiately dozens of people were blaming games like GTA (like a 40 year old lawyer would play those games).
And halo 2 will be rated M for mature, i'm sure of it. just check the 2003 e3 demo, the s word, blood all over the place, driving over covenant with a warthog, all the ingredients for a nice M rated game.


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  • 05.20.2004 9:03 AM PDT
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You're a Resident Director at a College and you can't play M rated video games? One: why would you be playing video games at work? The College has decided that paying you to play video games in an unrelated field of work is ok except you can't play any M rated games. Wow. Two: you can't play M rated games at home; is Big Brother watching you or something? Three: basically, what the -blam!-?!

  • 05.20.2004 9:25 AM PDT
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the chances are from 0% to 0%

[Edited on 5/20/2004 9:27:56 AM]

  • 05.20.2004 9:27 AM PDT
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UConn is pretty sensitive about stuff like M rated games, for reasons unknown to me. Maybe they don't want their students to be offended over the fact that one of their professors knows how he likes to have fun.

  • 05.20.2004 9:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sanguinarius
UConn is pretty sensitive about stuff like M rated games, for reasons unknown to me. Maybe they don't want their students to be offended over the fact that one of their professors knows how he likes to have fun.


It's still -blam!-in weird...

[Edited on 5/20/2004 9:34:13 AM]

  • 05.20.2004 9:31 AM PDT
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The answer is Zero, 零, 零, Nenhum, Nul, Zéro, Null, Μηδέν, Zero, Нул, Cero,どれも, 아무도. For those of you who can't read that is English, Simple Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and last but not least Korean.

  • 05.20.2004 9:39 AM PDT
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I don't think us Brits will have to worry about the rating of the game. Our government is on its a$$ at the moment. The age rating of the most anticipated game in history is the least of Tony Blair's problems. I don't know what the equivalent of an 'M' rated production is but there's a possibility of a '15+ OK' rating (what an original name).

Its not even that strict. I bought an XBOX kit, which included Halo and Unreal Championship. Both games have a 15+ OK rating and I bought it on my own at 14. And I don't think I looked 15 at that point either.

At age 15 I bought a '16+ OK' game (Rainbow Six 3). Again I didn't look old enough.

In my opinion the retailers don't really care that much about ratings any more because there are bigger problems. Anyway the kid is going to get the game somehow.

They probably thought I was older with the amount of cash I was carrying.

What do I care? I can get the game and none of this really affects me.

  • 05.20.2004 11:23 AM PDT
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Just so everyone knows Mature is 17 and older.
Teen is 13 and older.

That is why Halo 2 will be M for it to go to the next level it has to be appropriate for 13 year olds.

  • 05.20.2004 11:32 AM PDT
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That's ironic, I'm a Resident Assistant at UC Santa Cruz and we are allowed to have anything within our private bounds, as well as, hold HALO tournaments which is rated M. Since the majority of kids are 17+ or will soon be 18.

So, I find your rules quite odd.

  • 05.20.2004 11:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: User
You're a Resident Director at a College and you can't play M rated video games? One: why would you be playing video games at work? The College has decided that paying you to play video games in an unrelated field of work is ok except you can't play any M rated games. Wow. Two: you can't play M rated games at home; is Big Brother watching you or something? Three: basically, what the -blam!-?!


If I remember, Resident Director is the same as CRE at my school, which means they LIVE on campus in the resident areas.

  • 05.20.2004 11:36 AM PDT
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I dunno if anyone takes thos erating seriously, who cares anyway?

  • 05.20.2004 11:37 AM PDT
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  • 05.20.2004 12:05 PM PDT
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its gunna be M thats final

  • 05.20.2004 12:17 PM PDT
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WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! HOLD THE PHONE!!!


Halo had a rating?

  • 05.20.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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Ok i don't get why you can't play it????
Here in england Halo is only rated 15+, I was 13 when i brought it, no one cared I brought a 16+ game like a month ago, no one cared.
In conclusion whats the big deal???
(As long as your not like 12 and buying an 18+)
Like what sparten said.

P.S
Tony Blair is an a$$, he ain't dont nothing for us.

[Edited on 5/20/2004 12:58:25 PM]

  • 05.20.2004 12:52 PM PDT
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Yo Halo53, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best bungie.net profiles of all time. OF ALL TIME!

I have no idea what is up with these ratings. It is a video game, a video game. My parents, luckily, don't care about the ratings. A video game will not influence you to kill someone. If you were going to kill someone, you'd do it. There is alot of bad language in many PG13 movies so saying $hit in the E3 demo should, in theory, mean nothing. Blood and gore? It is a video game. They aren't real people, it doesn't look THAT real. If Halo were to give you nightmares at 13, then I think someone needs to grow up. I have no idea why games like Halo are rated M. There are people I know that can't play games rated M. The only game that probably deserves an M rating is probably GTA. I played it, I am not a drug dealer, or part of the mafia. This is another good topic. I had to go get my mom when I went to get MGS:The Twin Snakes. I played it and I have no idea why the hell its rated M. I assume its the cut scenes but those weren't "Ew gross yuck violence!" Those were "Holy $#%^ !@**& that is mother !@@#&& cool!"

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  • 05.20.2004 1:00 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Lol. for everyone who says Halo dosnt have a lot of gore, their on crack. It may not have as much as some games, but certainly has a lot of it. The ratings never affected me that much either. When I was about 6 my dad set up 4 computers in our house with all the spare parts he got at work and I would sit there with my dad my cuz my bro n myself and we would have 1v1v1v1 Quake matches (I was always the best) and nobody rreally cared about the rating. But then one day when the High School thingy got attacked or somethin like that by those kids who were obsessed with doom they took it away for a year but now its all normal and I can get any games or anything like that. But if you dont beleive Halo has violence, you need to play the library again.

[Edited on 5/20/2004 1:11:46 PM]

  • 05.20.2004 1:08 PM PDT
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lol. im only 13 and i play Halo all the time. (i got my first "T" game when i was 9 ....golden eye...) and it DOES have violence..and cussing (i swear...after i shot seargnt stacker on the silent cartographer he screamed "what the ***k" and then shot at me and said "take that F***er.but maybe not.) and if you think its not violent then you havent used 11 full clips from AR on a dead hunter's weak spot. and you havent meleed' and dead elite's head a whole bunch of times.

[Edited on 5/20/2004 4:04:05 PM]

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