- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Though I agree with lots of people here, I must point out (just to be nit-picky) that disabling the decals does not make the blood go away. Yes, it removes most of the blood that gets splashed on the walls and the ground, but technically you still see it when you shoot the bodies. This isn't Turok, where you can turn off the blood and gore. If you or your parents don't accept the blood and gore, tough luck, my friend. Bungie won't do that, I'm afraid. That's like tearing down the New York Skyline just because somebody in New Jersey wants to see the sky.
My father accepts that I play Halo or Halo 2. He respects me and considers me mature enough to play these games. Just how he didn't mind me playing Command and Conquer and frying little soldiers on the screen with lasers when I was a wee lad. He would never let me play a game like Gears of War, and I'm okay with that.
By the way, I agree with Mr Orzhov. Halo and Halo 2 are like the Hello Kitty of video games compared to a game like Half Life or Half Life 2. Halo and Halo 2 are only rated M in my opinion because of the gore, not the blood itself. I've seen many games with blood in them that are rated Teen. Even then, the gore in Halo and Halo still isn't that bad - the gore that can be seen only on the infected Flood-forms have blood, but it isn't green. This might sound odd, but as long as it's blood of a different color, and not red, no matter how realistically it spews off and splashes on the wall, is okay by me.
Before you say, "Well, there's no gore in Counter-Strike - but it's still rated M!" Think about it. Counter-Strike's avatars are real people. Humans. And the blood is much more realistic, and simply just spews everywhere. Yes, in Halo and Halo 2, the Spartans are still technically humans in big space suits, but it's still not as bad. It's kind of like how parents don't care about letting their children play games where monsters attack monsters, but they don't approve of letting them play games where people attack other people.
These days, people play the multiplayer more than the Campaign, where all you see is blood. I'm not saying that it's okay for five-year-olds to see people shooting each other and have blood spew out, but at least it isn't that bad. If Halo had no single-player, if it was a multiplayer exclusive, then I'm pretty confident it would be rated T.
However, it's worse in Halo 2, where bodies actually splurt out blood when you shoot them.