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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist

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age 14+

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age 6+

Great game

2010 game graphics so the violence is kept to a minimum. Lots of fun. Stealth based so you don’t NEED to kill everyone.

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Easy to play/use
age 12+

Ok

mild blood, guns, swearing, and politics. Adding this rating in preparation for the VR game

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Great messages
Great role models
Easy to play/use
age 18+

Violent, profane, and bloody

Although you have the option of slitting throats and murdering dozens of people, the game encourages the non-lethal approach. While you play as Sam Fisher, a secret agent who has the freedom to get the job done however he feels like, the game rarely stops you from killing people. Most of the cutscenes show almost unavoidable scenes of pools of blood, piles of severed bodies, and several F-bombs during a tortuous interrogation scene (mostly from one character specifically). Not very educational, but a lot of fun to play! Climbing pipes, maneuvering windowsills and ziplines, definitely action packed, but nothing to be too concerned about. As long as your kid knows the difference between real and fake violence, you should be good.

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Too much violence
Too much swearing
age 18+

18 and up or mature teens

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is NOT a game for kids or young teens. I started playing solo when I was about 17, but had played it before with my dad. This game is very violent and is full of profanity, with the main characters and even enemies dropping the f bomb several times in the opening missions, but calms down a lot after that. When you shoot enemies, they groan in pain with an "Aaah" upon death. While there are ways to non lethally subdue enemies, killing them is usually the only way to get rid of them or to advance. With blood flying, necks snapping, and even an on screen electrocution torture scene, this game is not for the faint of heart. If you have kids, make sure they can't hear the game.
age 10+

The blood and gore and language

The game is based on the stealth shadow genre so you are mainly taking out people in the shadows so you cant see it. So blood and gore are useless to complain about. Language is strong but if your child like my child plays games like call of duty, batman arkham I guess he or she is allowed. Please learn something from this because I am also an expireced player

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Too much violence
Too much swearing
age 16+

Sam is back :D

Not suggested for kids under the age of 15 the reason is intense violence and continues use of words like f++k and sh+t.

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Great messages
Too much violence
Too much swearing
age 11+

Splinter Cell Blacklist

It Is Alright I played it my self before Leting my 11 year old play it it is violent but nothing like disinmemberment it has a few swear's but genrally it is ok
age 12+

Ok

My kid has never said language at school or home and not like other kids,he is responsible enough,there isn't actually a lot of blood and gore,only happens when killing someone,and my kid is responsible,so its only one type of action that causes gore,so,im picky about tv shows and movies that my son watches and M-Rated games,i let him play the Call of Duty series as long as he doesn't play Zombie Mode,Im not saying all M-Rated games are ok but Splinter Cell Blacklist is ok for 12 years and up,this was the first M-Game I let my kid play,so i suggest this game for kids,If you are a parent get the game for your kid.

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Great messages
Great role models
Easy to play/use
age 11+

Splinter Cell Blacklist

This game isn't as bad as you may think it is. Sure its rated for different things such as blood, language, and violence. The blood isn't that bad. Its really not anything different from one of Halo games or Assassin's Creed games, which if you don't already know, isn't very much at ALL. Next, the language. The language is a little bit bad, but if your kid knows the words, then it should be fine. Some of the words I've heard are like F**k, S**t, and the occasional a*****e, other than that its completely fine. I've played through the entire game about 3 times or so, and I've heard minimal language. In each mission, I might hear about 2-3 F bombs, but that's it, so its not all that bad. Lastly the violence parts of this game, the violence in this game is very minimal. Sure there is shooting and stuff, but its not anything worse than a rated T game. But all of the stabbing could be a problem. But if your kid plays stuff like Assassins creed where your shoving a sword into someones face, this is completely fine. There a a few "stealth action" parts in the game that may include choking and stuff, but its not all that bad. In my opinion, its similar to a regular fighting game. All in all, this is a very good game and I think that it is appropriate for any kid 11 and up.

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Too much violence
Too much swearing
age 14+

Great game play it how you want!

This game is not pure violence. You can beat the entire game without killing a single person. The character Sam Fisher also isn't killing people just for the fun of it he is protecting the US and his daughter.

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Too much violence