Who are we kidding? All kids play COD. I started playing this when I was like 13. But, according to this website, it would definitely earn the NO KIDS rating because of the Violence and Language. LANGUAGE: Tons of F-words and S-words. In the campaign, online, and in Zombies (new maps.) There's no getting around the swearing (although I think there is a graphic content filter option, but I've never tried it.) VIOLENCE: Gratuitous amounts of gore. In the campaign you can shoot off limbs or heads. Grenades blow soldiers apart and rip stomachs out of bodies. On XBOX Live, heads can't come off, but explosives slow blow soldiers up and limbs fly (You even get awards for taking limbs off using the tank). In Zombies mode, heads blow up, stumps spurt blood, bottomless torsos crawl towards you, leaving bloody trails behind them. It's not any MORE violent than the story mode, but it's just that you're fighting SO MANY zombies that it seems gorier. Plus, it's more horror/fear - themed, so all around it just seems very intense. The game overall really IS NOT for kids ... but hey, they're gonna be playing it anyway. Just be aware that it is incredibly graphic and there's tons of profanity.

its a great game the filter makes it a great game for teens and online is less gory violent and you can mute the language(other people with mic's) so i recommend it for 13+

Although the blood is pretty bad it isn't too horrible as long as you turn off the blood and cuss words in the options its alot of fun. if you want a new zombie level get DER REISE..... SO AWESOME

This game is a fun game, not as good as Call of Duty 4 might I add. Limbs fly everywhere and swear words will be heard. I haven't played the campaign at all, but I've watched Youtube a bit and have seen that it's quite violent. I recommend turning on the graphic content filter in the menu to take it down a notch, but it won't touch the multiplayer. As I said before, limbs are blown off w/ shotguns, artillary strikes, and sniper rifles quite often. It's not all too graphic, but you see bloody stumps of heads, arms, etc. It can get pretty gruesome. And Nazi zombie mode is worse, but very fun. I recommend this game to older teens, but you have to know your kid to know what they can take or should be exposed to.

My 12 year old suggested this and its older brother modern warfare. At the begining i would have none of it because it was a Mature rated game. Just to det him of my back i rented this for the wii and the ps3 and was surprised. The wii version is different in some ways, the gore is toned down a ton and the language isnt as bad. But displays the horrors of war, but i like to teach him things that are true . he is very mature about these things and understands completly that some things are real and some are not. i let him watch the WWII movies and they are the equivalent to this game. There are filters that are great to take out the language and gore. there is a purticularly bloody sceen where your fellow marine gets his kneck cut in exicution but nothing extremly terrible. OVER ALL A GREAT GAME THAT A MATURE CHILD THAT YOU HAVE TALKED TO ABOUT NOT TAKING IT TO BAD CAN PLAY THIS GAME.

amazing game. its alot of fun. best ww2 game out there. but kids of course, are gonna WANT the best ww2 game out there. so if kids are gonna want it, why did activision have to load it with cussing and gore? limbs will fly off, along with heads. lots of blood. yet theres a restriction in the options menu TO TURN OFF NOT JUST THE BLOOD AND GORE, BUT TE LANGUAGE ALSO! yeah thats right! you can easily turn off the gore and the language. that means no blood, no limbs or heads blown off, and no cussing. I SWEAR! I Have this game!

Why is call of duty 4 so much better than this? First off, the weapons are balanced correctly in COD4 (in World at War, why the heck does a semi-auto M1 Garand take 5 shots to kill when a fully automatic Thompson takes only about three bullets?) and the storyline is much better. I'm tired of World War 2 games, and you all need to learn to stop following sheep and saying that "World at War is the best game ever", because it isn't. Just because something is brand new doesn't mean its better. Violence is worse off than previous COD games, including Modern Warfare. Appropriate for most 13-14 year olds and up.

...I will give you that, it is also quit gory with the way some people die in this game, at times you can even see internal organs. It doesn't bother me as an adult but it may bother younger kids, especially those with sensitive stomachs. As for the story line and gameplay it's awesome, definitely one of the best first-person shooters around, and yet Treyarch improved on it with Black Ops. If you let kids younger than 16 play it, keep an eye on them and talk to them about it.

ok this is world war 2. they are going to cuss. they've frikken put their lives on the line to defend there country kids need to know world war 2 was a very very bad time. people did get body parts amputated. people were shot to death and mauled by dogs. they of course cussed there grown men in the middle of a world war 2 battlefield. but still if youre still a little uneasy about getting this for your kid, it has a gore and language filter. on the other hand, this game is very educational. the characters in it were real soldiers. cutscenes and before scenes show you the history of world war 2 with newspaper articles form the 40s, war video footage and real life battle formation. and these guys are helping save their country and all of its inhabitants. get this game for your kid.