Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Most of your time spent in this role-playing game will be in combat. But it is turned-based combat where you decide which attack to use on your opponents and then you watch a video of your character doing the action you selected. You will also watch as opponents attack you. Attacks include swipes with swords (no blood, just grunts), burning with fire, knock-outs with powerful jets of water, stunning, poisoning, and sending a barrage of shrapnel. You and your opponents are simply knocked to the ground. Opponents can include scary-looking Hell Hounds, Furies, undead, skeletons, aberrations, Hades, Medusa, Minotaur, and many other Greek mythological characters.

Percy will use words like "crap" and demigods will issue taunts at each other.

One scene takes place in a casino in Las Vegas where kids are given a drug (Lotus leaves) to keep them "happy."

Parents need to know that Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief is a role-playing/fighting game based on the movie of the same name and the first book in the Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. While the game has kids read about the story, all of the game play is turned-based combat – and there is a lot of it. As the strategist of all fights, kids will plot out what magical attacks their group of characters will engage in as they fight Minotaurs, Hades, Medusa, the undead, Hell Hounds, Furies, and other Greek mythological creatures. Kids will watch the attack animations show swords being swung, water geysers erupting, fire burning characters and foes, and other fantastical attacks; but no blood is shown and the injured simply fall down. Early on, Percy Jackson's mother appears to have died.