- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I am also support the ESRB, Obi Wan. However, IMO, I feel that Halo and Halo 2 have been rated somewhat poorly as rated M games. There's blood, okay, but in most games that will give you a T for Teen rating. There's also gore, but it's not as bad because only the Flood blow up into tiny pieces (and the guts and entrails are green and not red). (0.o)
Like if you only play the multiplayer, and completely ignore the campaign, it's basically rated "T", because the only thing you ever see is blood.
Ever play Oblivion? I'm a proud owner of the original "T" rated version. Recently, they changed it to rated "M" because they found out that somebody could make a nudeskin modification where you could see nipples on women.
Let me say that again- because some modder was able to figure out how to take off the bras of the women in it, they changed it from "T" to "M". Normally, I wouldn't mind a change in the ESRB content rating, but hold up, what's this?
On the back of the original "T" rated version in the ESRB rating:
TEEN
Blood and Gore
Language
Sekshual Themes (EDIT:Damned censor!)
Use of Alcohol
Violence
What the hell? They let it be rated "T" when they had blood and gore, whereas Halo and Halo 2 had blood and gore, and they were rated "M," oh, but not Oblivion. Not in Oblivion where they also have "Sekshual Themes" and "Use of Alcohol." (That's the last time I'm ever going to misspell a word intentionally to bypass the censor.)
My point is that the ESRB, though I support it, isn't perfect.
[Edited on 10/28/2006]