Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction

(SPOILER ALERT) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction is probably the most profane and violent Splinter Cell game to date. The story follows Sam Fisher, who is now retired from Third Echelon. As the game progresses, we learn that maybe his daughter's death (run over by a drunk driver) wasn't an accident. This causes Sam to want to find out who is responsible, and reunite with his daughter. However, Sam shows no sign of mercy throughout the game. In almost every level, you interrogate people to get them to tell you what you want to know. The most intense interrogation scene I've experienced was more than halfway through the game, where the man draws a knife on Sam, who grabs the knife, twists the guy's arm, and stabs the knife though his hand and into a tree stump. As these interrogations proceed, you can visibly see the victim's face being more and more beat up, including open cuts, bleeding mouths, and (in one scene) coughing up blood. The game is also very profane. The hostiles are CONSTANTLY dropping F-bombs like it's the cool thing to do. And unlike other games such as Gears of War, there is no way to filter the language, outside of hacking the game. Personally, it made me uncomfortable to hear the F-word so many times per level, I almost wanted to stop playing the game entirely. The only reason I didn't is because I was warned of the insane amount of vulgar language. Personally, I have not experienced any sexual content, and I've played through the entire game. I've heard about a scene in a club where girls dressed in their underwear move their bodies in certain ways for men, but I never saw anything close to that. But what keeps drawing me back to the game is the compelling storyline! It's like re-playing the game all over again every time! I love the story, and I love how we get to see more of Sam's pre-Echelon life. This was a great step forward in terms of storyline for Splinter Cell. If it weren't for the absolutely unnecessary use of the F-word dozens of times in literally every level, I'd give the game 5 stars.

Not that violent, some slightly bloody hand to hand combat scenes. The game took a light turn when it took out pools of blood, slitting throats, and hiding bodies. Unfortunately these violent things do return in blacklist. But all in all Sam, the protagonist, basically punches and shoots his way through terrorist threatening civilians and the president. There is some swearing, nothing they probably haven’t heard. So 12+ maybe 13 it just depends on if you child knows the difference between real life and a video game.