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All teen and kid reviews for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Age
11
Average rating based on 21 kid and teen reviews:
  • 29% say violence is an issue
Teen, 14 years old
April 9, 2008
 
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honestly, do you think 13 year-olds are going to run off and star killing people just because of what they see in this game? you know what you need CS? a little bit of COMMON SENSE!

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Teen, 16 years old
March 6, 2009
 
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllll
this is the best game after killzone and when you say what violent things you can do on the game. boy will want it even more and wont care what it has in it

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Teen, 16 years old
April 9, 2008
 
I LOOOOOVE to watch my brother play it!
ITS AWSUM DUDE!!!

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Teen, 18 years old
December 13, 2010
 
Good for a player that understands shanking innocent people is wrong
The message that is received from this game depends completely on the player. One player may sneak by and avoid taking lives, while another player goes shanking everyone left and right. The plot is also easily ignorable, the missions are usually just go here, get that, get out. But the plot is interesting if you pay attention. Sam Fisher is an iffy role model, a nice guy with good intentions, but he shanks people without blinking.

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Kid, 12 years old
January 1, 2012
 
A game that you might enjoy
This game is fun at first, but gets old after you have played it a while. There are some off screen torture, and you sometimes have the choice to kill people.

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Kid, 13 years old
June 16, 2011
 
For a mature 12 year old...
A good game for a mature 12 year old! There is a bit of language (s***, h***, b**** and p***) but is very infrequent! Unlike the previous two splinter cells, you may notice that you now have a knife! When you stab someone there is no blood or gore, but you can here the sound of it which sometimes makes you cringe! Overall this is a hard game which encoureges stealth instead of run and gun! GET THIS GAME!!!

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Teen, 14 years old
January 18, 2011
 
M rating? No reason here
I personally think this is one of the best entries in the series. I see no reason it has an M rating. The only time I could think of it having any reason for that is an off-screen torture sequence in the first mission. It encourages you to not even knock others out, solve puzzles and try to be a reasonable person in the process. Needs a teen rating

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Teen, 17 years old
December 11, 2010
 

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Teen, 15 years old
June 19, 2010
 
It really depends...
Ok now this game is hard to rate but personally I LOVE IT!!! The reason being is because not everyone is going to kill everything they see, some kids will use stealth (it's easier) I'm not saying that no one is going to kill everything that's alive but most kids don't and if you are mindlessly killing ou're not stimulating the brain as you could be while sneaking around and finding hidden passages.

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Teen, 16 years old
April 19, 2010
 
I've recently downloaded Tom Clancey's Spilnter cell: Conviction from Steam, and have been playing and loving it for a while now. The game plays out similar to a Tom Clancey novel; Korea starts showing aggression to Japan, and you, special agent Sam Fisher, are sent in to fix things before things get hostile. This is the first Splinter cell game to be rated M for Mature, most likely because you are given a knife, which gives you the option to execute enemies using it. No blood is shown during these scenes, though small amounts can be seen when shooting an enemy. There is minimal swearing, the worst I've heard being "sh-t", but nothing stronger. The game rewards you for being stealthy and not killing people, executions leading to a lower score at the end of the mission. The game has an average difficulty, sometimes involving trial and error, but generaly stays challenging but not frustrating. I would rate it +13 years and older, though more Mature 11-12 year olds could easily handle the content.

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Teen, 18 years old
February 17, 2010
 
love the game its a lot of fun will really test your gamer skills

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Teen, 17 years old
December 31, 2009
 
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
I love this game. My Dad has let me play it since I was twelve. He has now let my ten year old brother play. In the game you get to sneak up behind unsuspecting enemies and grab them. You will get the choice to Interrogate sometimes. When you are done with the interrogation you will get the choice to knock the man out or hit him in the back with your knee in result killing him. Although the objective of the game is to get the highest score you can through stealth and limited killing. Every time you kill someone your score is dropped. The downside is that the very first level of the game is a vivid torture. In the interrogation you will hear the man screaming as they shock the poor man. Also in the last level if you do not execute everything right you will be captured and interrogated. Over all the game is not the worst ever.

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Teen, 18 years old
April 9, 2008
 
M?????
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory may be rated M, but that is to high of a rating. Thought Sam Fisher uses violence to get to his goals, it is never very graphic, and is not very bad. Sam swears occalisonaly, but never uses them at people. This game should be rated T!

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Kid, 13 years old
April 9, 2008
 
pfff..
i knew it all of my favorite games have the lowest rating splinter cell is gooooodd..and apropriat for certant ages it tought me how to sneak up on my brother and go boo!

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Teen, 18 years old
April 9, 2008
 
Very AWESOME GAME
This is really fun. The violence really isn't graphic at all and u can choose 2 kill sum1 if u want 2 or not but younger kids may start thinking it's cool 2 throw people off an edge and knife people so if ur younger kids r mature enought let them play it. The language is medium like the 's' word every now and then but besides that that's all. Also if u have xbox live this game is awesome 4 it but there will be language. 'f' word will be said over and over again so be prepared.

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Teen, 18 years old
April 9, 2008
 

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Teen, 18 years old
April 9, 2008
 
Very Good and Misunderstood
I can agree this game is rather questionable, but at times ESRB (TM) goes a little too far with their ratings. This game is not as bad as it is rated. No Sexual Referenes whatesoever Violence: yes, of course you can shoot and stab, but not the shooting and stabbing is not like that of say....GTA? Most are concerned about a new feature in the game, the knife. But the knife was not put there for pure killing, but it is used as an extra help for stealth, which is the opposite of non-violence. For example, instead of using the knife to stab the guard guarding the door, you can use it to open up a circuit box and bypass it so that the lights go off and you simply go around the guard. No bloodshed, not even the boring "elbow" from the first installment in the game. To make this point even more proven, the game penalizes you for killing soldiers or civilians. Also, the game has a pretty good education value to come with it. I was amazed when i recently played the game, and it was like watching the news. The game doesnt have the boring plot like: "gang tries to take over the world" or "nuclear bomb....stop it". The game backs up its plot with actual events happening today. All in all, this game is appropriate for those my age but are also critical thinkers. When I played the game, it got me interested in current events happening today. Not for those who are for pure blood.

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Teen, 16 years old
April 9, 2008
 
not bad.. really
it is not that bad for kids because you can actually choose not to kill anyone.

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Teen, 16 years old
April 9, 2008
 
i owned it
this game is great yes there is a torturing seen but it is not long at all there is screeming and who cares if you kill people for the government the military tells you to do something in real life you do it and if you don't they kill you or they through you in jail!!!

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Teen, 16 years old
April 9, 2008
 
Great
This game may have alot of shooting and throat cutting, but you can also use non-lethal attacks. There is alot of stategic thinking, so while your kid/s (if you have any) are doing alot of killing (or knocking people out) there are learnig to use there brain to get through the game.

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