I just love to play this game. It is fun, clever, and worth the time. To make such a great game with such horrible graphics is very impressive!!! No Halo game will ever be better than this one, and I'm talking to you, Halo 4. This game was great, if you are looking for a great game to play, TRY THIS ONE!!!!

My parents used to not allow me play rated M games, but after a few months, they realized that most rated M games are not bad. Of course, they didn't know which ones but I had been asking them if I could buy Halo Reach (not a very good game, but I was a noob at the time; the other Halo games are much better) and eventually they started watching gameplay, etc, etc, and they finally let me buy it. Then I got into more halo games. I bought Halo 3 and Halo combat evolved anniversary (same thing, just better graphics) so I played through the campaigns, did some multiplayer, etc, and I then realized that Halo games are not bad at all. I don't see any point in rating them M for mature. I mean, sure there is a little bit of human blood in multiplayer when you are killing each other, but in the campaign there is only alien blood and the graphics (for halo CE) are terrible because it is an old game. (MINOR SPOILER WARNING) Throughout the campaign, there is an alien/zombie infection called the Flood. They are basically zombies from space. They have disgusting green skin, but no human intestines or blood is shown. The Flood is the reason that on the back of the case underneath where it says "M" it says "BLOOD AND GORE". There is no real "GORE" shown, however. For some reason, it seems to me that anything with some type of zombie-plague/infection just HAS to be gory. They aren't really actually gory though. I consider gore to be intestines being shown or something along those lines. I am a Halo fan and my parents might not let me play this game if it had strong language and what I consider gore (which doesn't make sense to me because of how much of those things I have already seen/heard and because of how much the world can be corrupted these days). I used to hate gore, but seeing a few war films has desensitized me a bit, but anyway, when I was a newbie to this kind of stuff, I was cautious about this game because I noticed that it said "BLOOD AND GORE", but it's never really as bad as you'd think. Sorry for the gigantic review, but I hope I can help some people make decisions.

should not be rated M should be rated T

Halo is an excellent game. Great environments, widely-varied weapons, and a great story all come together and it's awesome. I suppose it is a little violent but its really not nearly as bad or graphic as everyone and their uncle makes it out to be (remember that it is a GAME, a metaphor for problem solving and real time reaction skills, not real life). Really the biggest issue for me is the language. You hear d**n, h*ll, b**ch, and a*s sprinkle in the background dialog and in cutscenes. While not anywhere close to being gratuitous in this area, I still think that it should be noted. (I suppose my real issue here is with the ESRB) One final note on the violence is that it's all for a good cause. An alien alliance known as the Covenant are trying to wipe out humanity down the last man, woman, and child and it's basically up to you to stop them from getting control of Halo or finding Earth.

This game is awesome! It is not very inappropriate. Before you knock it because it has the mature rating, allow your kids to try it out! For violence there is guns and blood (What you would expect from a first person shooter) There is a few iffy words "D***N, H**L, and an occasional B*****D." Online play is somewhat safe if your kids do not swear constantly at other players. That's all I have to say.

I think kids could play this game because you can put the blood to know blood and it makes kids get imaginative with there little brothers or sisters but i think the flood is scary but not worse then deathspace.

This game is not as bad as they say. If your child can handle a PG-13 movie, they could handle this. When you shoot aliens, blue, purple, and orange blood comes out. It shows little human blood, but nothing gorey. Master Chief is a good role model who only fights because he has to. He obeys orders and respects his superiors. Just watch out for multiplayer, there can be innapropiate names. I think any mature 11-year old can handle this.

You only shoot aliens, although you will sometimes find dead marines on the ground(blood spills on the surrounding ground) but it is not horrible at all.

Amazingly, I've just started playing this this week, but won't play it for a long time after that. My mom won't let me play anything rated M, regardless of why. Though, I can play it at a video game camp I'm going to. I haven't played singleplayer, but I've watched a few people play it, and I'v played multiplayer. My conclusion is:Violence should be there. Though, blood and gore should be switched to blood, and M to T. There's ALIEN GORE, and I guess because there was human blood, they turned it into blood and gore, and therefore M. The only human bleed there is, is whenever someone dies on multiplayer from pistol or assault rifle, there're blood splatters on the ground, but that's it.