As unbiased as I try to be, I have to say: No Kids?! Seriously?! With all due respect, I believe this game was seriously misjudged. This is coming from someone that understands the importance of keeping certain games from kids as I'm not allowed to play M games. I agree with Goldendrummer's review below. This game is like Grand Theft Auto without the drugs, sex, and whatever makes that game M. This is an average rated "T" shooter.

For those of you parents out there, this game isn't what you'd think. CSM rates the violence and message at the red level. Also, on extremely bloody and terrible games, they have given them the red. There is a reason this game was rated T. There is no blood, just constant shooting. The events result because of your actions. You must choose between different factions. Sometimes you must do dirty work for them against other friendly factions. You have the choice to become friends with other factions, but you must stay friendly to the Americans. Yes, you are paid for the things you destroy and the people you kill or take into custody. You can hijack cars from just about anyone. You can destroy anything and kill anything. The thing is, if you kill a friendly or civilian, you lose your cash. To sum up, this game is rated T and should still be treated that way. The whole game basically revolves around choice and what actions you take. Don't shut this game out. There are plenty of games that are worse than this.

The violence is only shooting your enemies in an international war. there is no blood, the enemies die then the blood is replaced with yellow dust. the language isn't horrible. you don't kill for money, you lose money for damaging things and killing civilians and the factions mood towards you is changed so they dislike you a little less, so that goes for education. your main enemy is north korea. there are cheat that you unlock to change to people like han solo and indiana jones. yes you do deystroy things and kill but it is war so it is like what really happens in life. OK, i know your thinking "he's just a kid he doesn't know what he's talking about." your wrong i have the game and i wouldn't lie online. This is not as bad as the site says.

not for kids its a t game

In Mercenaries you work for the UN and try to kill or capture high ranking military officials for cash. While there is killing through out the game there is no blood or gore and you are also encouraged to capture your targets instead of kill them because you twice as much money for a capture. You can kill civilians but you are charged a heavy fine every time you do. There is little language in the game only a very rare d or h-word. Over all a fun game for older tweens and young teens.

This game you might have to kill or destroy for money. The whole point of th game is money so you have to do these destructive missions. It isnt very graphic and includes no blood what so ever. But there is lots of killing and destruction. The player controls the amount of death though by picking certain missions ut eventually they will have to complete every one.

Its an extremely cool game and it is my favorite game it is fine for a T rating and look at some of the games out their now that are rated teen now those are very bad but mercenaries is great and good for kids ten and up

This game is very fun. The point is that you are a mericenary and you get assigned to capture and/or kill highly wanted bad guys. There is a good amount of realistic war violence in this game, but there is no blood. It may not be the best for the younger ones.

Guns, grenades, explosives, carjacking, nukes, this is a rather fun, but defiently violent game. You should supervise your child