A Very well put together game. Too short gameplay, but a good i guess "sequel". Firefight mode is fun and the multiplayer add on is great. As far as kids go, it has a little blood, but not to the point where it is terribley graphic. The flood in Halo 3 is much worse. Swearing is a little ronchy, but no F*** bombs.

Just another mistake by the ESRB(the people that rate games). Just like Halo 3, ODST deserves a T rating. This game is basically Halo 3 with a few varitions and should not be rated M. There is blood but it's blue, green and orange so it really isn't that bad. Some swears are in ODST but not that many. The game is fun but the campaign gets boring after a while. The rest of ODST(Fire Fight mode and multiplayer) is really fun and isn't inapropriate.

Halo 3. Blew Xbox live to pieces when it released in September of '07. Now the prequel, Halo 3 ODST, is out, but with the same "M" rating. For those of you who have played the Halo 3 campaign, this game is far milder, with removal of the flood. For those of you who haven't, take my word for it. The main reason Halo 3 got the "M" was because of the flood. Now that it's gone? Halo 3 ODST still get an "M" rating, with no gore, and blood that could pass in a "T" rated shooter. With no gore, and very little blood, it should be rated "T". For those parents out there who are out there saying "It deserved an M rating", well that's your opinion. Having played some games that earn their "M" (Resident Evil 5, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1 & 2, Fallout 3, and [a little] Mass Effect 1 & 2) I personally feel that this game did not deserve it, and that your 13+ year old be allowed to buy it. I hope this review helped you decide, and I hope it was not too pushy.

I played it and so far its fun. I love firefight and so far there's no language. Good game

AMAZING GAME! Hard and confusing but puts a new twist to things. And it comes with a a free game called Halo mythic. All it is, is Halo 3. Except it's only multi player. NOT FOR PEOPLE NEW TO FIRST PERON SHOOTER GAMES!

I started playing this game when I was 11 so I'd recommend this game to 12 year olds or a mature 11 year old. Swearing is not very common but they say words like " H--L, D--N, Bas---d, Bi--- and A--. Its got a bit of blood but not over done like Call of Duty or Gears of War.

defiantly not the best game that bungie has made. i thought the story line was very hard to follow because it kept switching who you played as. the violence not to bad only one monster explodes when he is shot. it was also very hard to see things and becomes very frustrating. its not very often people swear, and gets more fun at the end. my advise is if this is more than 15 to $20 don't buy it get a different game.

OK so I read some of the reviews and thought to myself "none of these give a complete picture" Halo is a vast universe of games movies and comic books, its full of sacrifice, secrets, and heroes, one review can't hold the huge amount of information on this subject, I would recommend checking out halo wiki for more info. Let me just clarify a couple facts covered in this article, the covenant is not some crazed alien race out to destroy earth, that's only part of it, the covenant's government is run by self proclaimed "prophets" they've banded together several alien species to aid in finding ancient "Forerunner" technology, the Forerunners were a race long before humans who controlled most of the galaxy, their empire was prosperous and grand, until they ran into a alien parasite known as " the FLOOD" the flood is a creature that consumes living organisms and and turns them into a zombie like state, the forerunners fought a long war with this creature, but after losing so much, they decided the only way to destroy the flood was to take away its only life force, so they built huge ring worlds known as Halos, these were built to self destruct and destroy all life in the galaxy therefor starving the flood of its life force, their plan was to activate the rings from a safe location and then reseed the galaxy, sadly this never happened, the rings activated, but the forerunners were never seen again. now the covenant "prophets" believe that the forerunners built the ring as a portal to elevate themselves to a god like status, so they've made the entire point of their religion looking for these rings in order to start "the great journey" but when they finally run into humanity in the year 2525 the prophets soon learn the error of their ways, instead of admitting their mistake the decide to cover it up bye declaring that humanity is an affront to the gods and must be destroyed, or else "the great journey" won't happen, this sends the military into a blind rage, they attack our planets with with extreme force, we don't stand a chance against their advanced technology. that's what the game centers around, that's why were fighting, O.D.S.T or Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, are a brave group of soldiers who more or less sky dive out of ships orbiting the planet, they land in key locations, to help in special operations, what do you think good role models? and seriously since when is blood violent? its inside you right now, if your child doesn't know about blood their gonna be in for a huge shock, oh its just killing aliens! hurray death of other species! language shouldn't be an issue trust me try theirs way worse at school, kids drop F*** bombs all the time, over all this is a great game most kids just want this for the forge any way, although I wouldn't recommend voice chat on Xbox live for any one under 14 though.

it ful of thing hell bent on killing anything they can and having the world for them self so you are a odst spuad who are fighting for there lives.great game 12+ firefights are awesome (im not aloud to play the campain but you may the game is 100% awesome!best halo ever!