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MySims Agents (Wii)
Age 8+
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MySims Agents (Wii)

Why We Recommend It

Cool secret-agent sim challenges kids to solve entwined mysteries. Nifty spy gadgets help players outwit adversaries.

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Left 4 Dead 2 (Windows, Xbox 360)
Parents Need to Know...

Left 4 Dead 2 is an incredibly gory, violent shooter meant strictly for adults. Players must survive a zombie apocalypse by using a myriad of weapons, including handguns, shotguns, grenade launchers, axes, chainsaws, baseball bats and ... read more

No Kids
Left 4 Dead 2
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

that, while not over-the-top in the gore department, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a modern-day military shooter that realistically and graphically shows violence and blood. Much of the game involves traveling to different areas of ... read more

No Kids
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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Nerf N-Strike Elite (Nintendo Wii)
Parents Need to Know...

this is a shooter game about targeting robots and flying vehicles. However, there is no blood, no gore, and no moaning when robots are vanquished. Nerf N-Strike Elite comes with an actual Nerf gun into which you place the Wii remote to ... read more

Age 10+
Nerf N-Strike Elite
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Borderlands (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

Borderlands is a very gruesome first-person shooter meant for adults only. Besides using strong language and mature humor, the game is quite violent. Players amass a large collection of weapons which they use to kill humans and creatures ... read more

No Kids
Borderlands
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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

that Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a very violent first-person shooter that strives to recreate with extreme authenticity the experience of modern war. Players handle a variety of realistic weapons, characters grunt and bleed ... read more

No Kids
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
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Dead Space: Extraction (Nintendo Wii)
Parents Need to Know...

there are few "Mature"-rated video games for the Nintendo Wii, and this is one of them. As one of four marines in deep space, players fight against nasty aliens from a first-person perspective -- by shooting at them with an ... read more

No Kids
Dead Space: Extraction
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Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360)
Parents Need to Know...

this first-person shooter is rated "Mature" for its graphic depiction of violence. This is a futuristic science fiction game where most of the enemies you're shooting at are alien creatures bent on Earth's destruction. Players ... read more

Age 16+
Halo 3: ODST
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Wolfenstein (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

this Mature-rated first-person shooter game features plenty of violence, blood, and gore. It's not out of context in this fictional Nazi universe, but there is a fair amount of blood, and lots of weapons and dismemberment in the game. ... read more

No Kids
Wolfenstein
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Battlefield 1943 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

that although this game is an inexpensive download available through Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, it is still a full-fledged first-person shooter set in a realistic 3-D world. Players spend their time attacking one another with ... read more

Age 13+
Battlefield 1943
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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

that this Western-themed shooter is meant to be played only by mature players. It is laden with very strong profanity and crude sexual references, and the gunslinging violence, while perhaps not as graphic as that of some other shooters ... read more

No Kids
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
4
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The Conduit (Nintendo Wii)
Parents Need to Know...

this is a T-rated first-person shooter with tamer violence as compared to M-rated games in the genre. Players can use an array of weapons such as pistols, machine guns, shotguns, alien rifles, and grenades. When enemies are killed, ... read more

Age 13+
The Conduit
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Mad Dog McCree: Gunslinger Pack (Nintendo Wii)
Parents Need to Know...

that this retro first-person shooter game is about the shooting of cowboys who appear in real time videos. Real humans are killed, and they sometimes moan in agony when shot. Along the way, there is a little bit of blood on arrows ... read more

Age 13+
Mad Dog McCree: Gunslinger Pack
2
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

this game was created for adult players. The "Mature" rating warns of excessive violence and gore -- and there is plenty of it -- as well as foul language and sexual references and imagery. This game is not appropriate for kids, ... read more

No Kids
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
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Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

this is a violent shooter intended for mature audiences. Players use an array of weapons to kill enemies, including assault rifles, shotguns, rocket launchers, and grenades. Blood often spurts from enemies as they're hit, and will ... read more

No Kids
Killzone 2
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House of the Dead: Overkill (Nintendo Wii)
Parents Need to Know...

that this is a bloody zombie shooter with semi-humorous dialog that is peppered with profanity including "f--k." Blood sprays when you shoot a zombie anywhere on the body, and the game rewards taking head shots and ones that ... read more

No Kids
House of the Dead: Overkill
3
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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

F.E.A.R. 2 is a Mature-rated game and for good reason: it shows a lot of violence and gore -- including human and inhuman enemies that spray blood when attacked and collapse in a heap on the floor -- as well as sexual themes (an act of ... read more

No Kids
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
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Legendary (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

that Legendary is a typical, adult-oriented first-person shooter. Play revolves around the violent killing of a variety of mythical beasts, sometimes by extremely violent means (werewolves are permanently disposed of by lopping off their ... read more

No Kids
Legendary
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Call of Duty: World at War (PlayStation 2, Windows, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

that this is a grisly shooter based on World War II. Players can kill enemy forces with guns, grenades, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers. Besides seeing lots of blood, players will witness enemies writhing as they are burned alive or ... read more

No Kids
Call of Duty: World at War
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Resistance 2 (PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

that in this game you can use all kinds of weapons to destroy enemies, which are mainly aliens. The violence, however, makes up the bulk of the game-play and is quite graphic in nature. This includes blowing up creatures into bloody ... read more

No Kids
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Far Cry 2 (PlayStation 2, Mac/Windows, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo 64, Windows, Xbox 360)
Parents Need to Know...

that this is an extremely violent and realistic shooter set in a war-torn African country. Players take the role of a hardboiled, morally grey mercenary who, when not plugging his enemies full of lead, setting them on fire, or blowing ... read more

No Kids
Far Cry 2
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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Parents Need to Know...

that this is a gritty, gruesome look at World War II. The action is bloody and graphic. An Action Cam allows players to see headshots up close, limbs being blown off bodies, and decapitated bodies floating in water. Players will use a ... read more

No Kids
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
3

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