Halo: Combat Evolved (Windows)

swearing alot

I'm a somewhat normal (I think) middle schooler: I play some violent (and some not) games, I read, play some sports, etc., and most of my friends love HALO, but I don't see any point in it! The story is kind of neat, but not very, the graphics are good, but it is very hard to play, and it has created a huge gap between my friends! Some are better then others, and so the one who's better just continually kills the others and then in real life the others are all mad at the better one! And it's VERY addicting (Once, I asked one of my friends that I bike home from school with if he wanted to come over, and he said he was to busy... and then later I came to get him for a school function and found out that he had spent the afternoon arranging all the "respawn points" in front of his gun so that he could continually shoot his enemy. I later found out from his dad that he hadn't even put down his backpack yet when he turned his xbox on. So much for busy!

The Halo series has reinvented first-person shooters. Even though Halo: Combat Evolved was only released in 2003, it is considered a classic. It has a really good story, and great graphics and sound. However, there are some serious problems. Sometimes, when enemies drop their guns, they'll get stuck inside environmental objects, spin around slowly and emit a horrible grinding noise that can be heard quite a distance away. Plus, Master Chief (the protagonist) scarcely talks. I'm halfway through the game and he's said about 120 words. Despite being rated M, halo isn't that inappropriate. The blood is ULTRA unrealistic, even that of humans. The thing that parents should be worried about is The Flood, a parasitic life form. The Flood starts out as cat-sized insect-shaped blobs, and when it infects someone, the effects are pretty gruesome. When The Flood infects a type of enemy called an Elite, the Elite's skin turns pale greenish brown. It's left hand is replaced by a whip-like cluster of red veins which it uses as a secondary weapon. The Elite's neck is lengthened and it's head is curled backwards, and another whiplike cluster of veins sprouts out of the chest. The really gruesome thing is, when you shoot them, it spurts out dark green blood and, if you place your shots correctly, you can shoot it's limbs off, and I've seen tiny chunks of flesh fall off, too. There isn't much sexual content in the game, but the holographic representation of the A.I. Cortana can get to be a little much. She's completely naked except for black lines covering up her bad parts. The only people who ever swear in the game are the Marines, and they only say mild words. However, Sgt. Avery Johnson described the space station/superweapon Halo as "God's own anti-son-of-a-b**** machine". One more comment is that CSM got the platforms wrong. It's available for windows, PC, Xbox and Xbox 360.

This first Halo game is AW3S0M3!!!!!

My kid is 11 and really wants to play it. I say it's iffy to the point where he can be mature enough. Right now, he is, but I can't promise your 11 year old is. He plays it at home on his Xbox. Even though I do NOT let him play the other and newer Halo games such as Halo Reach or Halo 3, I let him play this "older one". Anyways, it is very iffy but parents make the decision. Also, you can go online (Multiplayer) and there can be some bad screen names. Such as, I was walking by in the kitchen and saw an opponent screen name's "Yellow-F**ker" And such sexual content people can use. But you dont see it much.

i dont actually think this deserves an m rating. although blood is throughout most of it is blue green purple colored. some of it is red but doesnt look real. there is some language such as the b---- and a-- words. but no f-words or s-words that i heard. violence is strong and should be intense violence in the rating but its all against aliens. you can though go against your teammates but that is represented as a not so positive thing. there is no sexual content. but the captain smokes cigars, but it is only shown a couple of times

This game is absolutely fine for kids. There is no reason it should be rated M for Mature at all. I played it when I was 9, and I can tell you: there's just as much blood when you fall down in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater than there is in this game. It's very clear that you should only shoot the aliens, there's no type of gore at all, and the only marginally scary portions occur when fighting the flood.

An amazing game that I could play forever. It is no worse than the Call of Duty games or Battlefield games: The language is about the same, the violence is about the same, and in Halo the blood is blue, and you're shooting aliens not real people. It should definetly be teen not mature.

Halo is a great game for 17. the flood in this game is some sort of parasite that looks like a squid in a way.this game should only be played by 17 yr olds.