should i get my son halo 3?

hi everyone i dont play games much. my son has been bugging me for sometime now. Ido know if its anything like gears of wars he can forget it. Halo 3 has gotten a M rating and thats fine as long as i dont see anyone getting cut in half im fine. So whats the most violent part about halo? BTW my son is only 11.

thanks

prettynice422

get it for him. If you dont play games that much, why do u have 3686 posts? or is this ur sons account?

[QUOTE="prettynice422"]

hi everyone i dont play games much. my son has been bugging me for sometime now. Ido know if its anything like gears of wars he can forget it. Halo 3 has gotten a M rating and thats fine as long as i dont see anyone getting cut in half im fine. So whats the most violent part about halo? BTW my son is only 11.

thanks

SystemaKid

get it for him. If you dont play games that much, why do u have 3686 posts? or is this ur sons account?

So post count = amount of time you play games now? Oh noes I play games lots :cry:

I've been playing games of Halo's violent calibur since I was 6 or 7 (quake, duke nukem 3d) There really isn't much to worry about, it desenstizises the kid towards violence but thats about it. Video games has very little to do with a bad outcome i find, for the exception of online play. Keep your son off xbox live and your fine. If your really worried make sure he hangs out with a good group of kids and understands how serious violence is.

P.S: Halo 3 is killing Aliens, a good rule of thumb with M rated games is Alien Killing isnt that bad, but people is a bit different

Get the kid the game. I started playing Mortal Kombat when I was 5. I turned out all right.MCNewYork87

LOL yeah same here. MK3 was one of the first game I owned on the genesis. the good old days. I turned out fine aswel by the way. no killing rampages and fatalities here.

BUY IT!!!! because

1- if you didn't buy it now your son will be soooooooooooooooooo angry and will commit horrible things to ruin your life

2- if he didn't play it now he will play it later at his friends house or at any other place ( yes , all of his friends will get the game )

3- let him play live without a headset ( IM 17 and even I don't like don't like to were it, people can be reallymean )

4- if you didn't buy it you will ruin your child's youth

5- if you truly.......honestly.......really love your son...........YOU WILL BUY IT

BUY IT

( and dude you posted about 3000 posts and yet you say that you don't knowMUCH about games,COME ON !!!!!!!!!! )

P.S : IM not your son

BUY IT!!!! because

1- if you didn't buy it now your son will be soooooooooooooooooo angry and will commit horrible things to ruin your life

2- if he didn't play it now he will play it later at his friends house or at any other place ( yes , all of his friends will get the game )

3- let him play live without a headset ( IM 17 and even I don't like don't like to were it, people can be reallymean )

4- if you didn't buy it you will ruin your child's youth

5- if you truly.......honestly.......really love your son...........YOU WILL BUY IT

BUY IT

( and dude you posted about 3000 posts and yet you say that you don't knowMUCH about games,COME ON !!!!!!!!!! )

P.S : IM not your son

arabianplayer

lol you sound like a bungie employee

I would do it the cheap way go out and buy him halo 1 first then if he likes it buy him the other 2. Its not a really violent game.

i've started playing halo when i was 12.. now i'm 17 and i'm a normal teenager...

but i only started playing on xbl when i was 14/15

Like just about everyone else, I agree that H3 is not anywhere near the gore factor of GeOW. However, as far as Xbox Live goes, you would do well not to let your child anywhere near the likes of the riff raff that troll that game on Live. He'll hear more swear words in one match than he would in the entire South Park movie. I'm 31 and have been gaming since I could hold a controller. I wouldn't let my son play that game online. If my son wanted to play online without using the headset, that would be fine so long as I was monitoring him. Just my two cents.

i've started playing halo when i was 12.. now i'm 17 and i'm a normal teenager...

but i only started playing on xbl when i was 14/15

DemonX_portugal

pshh you dont sound normal to me .... wakakakakakaka

no I'm kidding I started playing halo when i was 13 and now im 17 and I'm pretty much ok ... but sometimes I throw grenades at peoples houses for fun..... =D

It's an M rated game for a reason. As a parent, it's your call but I think that 11 years old is a little young to be playing an M rated game.

The previous Halo games haven't been that bad compared to the likes of Gears, Condemned or Bioshock, but I'd still make him wait until he was at least 15.

hi everyone i dont play games much. my son has been bugging me for sometime now. Ido know if its anything like gears of wars he can forget it. Halo 3 has gotten a M rating and thats fine as long as i dont see anyone getting cut in half im fine. So whats the most violent part about halo? BTW my son is only 11.

thanks

prettynice422

If you love your son, you will buy him Halo 3

I never found Halo to really emphasis its violence. its there but not in your face with blood hitting the camera like in Gears. I love that though lol.

I would say he would be alright with it but i would monitor how he plays. Better yet its a coop game. Play with him. Be fun and im sure he would get a kick out of playing halo 3 with his Dad.

From a moral standpoint, it really isn't that bad. A little blood and a little violence. However, having online communications he will be exposed to people and their idiocy. So if anything, forbid him from having headphones.

Now if your son has never played halo 1 or 2, he will most likely be wanting halo 3 purely because of the hype and if he doesn't like it, you will be wasting a whole lot of money.

The M rating is too wide a net, I agree. Even when a parent pays attention to the rating, there's discussion on if it's a light M, or a heavy M. (Like The Matrix and Hostel are both rated R.)

So is Halo 3 really going to be inappropriate? I'd say there is certainly less violence, gore, and language than Gears of War, and might only earn its M rating from the relatively mild bloodsplatter. Still, eleven years old wouldn't even qualify him to play a teen-rated game, so even though I would say Halo 3 is really only barely above a T, it would still probably be inappropriate for a person his age, but that's for you to decide.

NX75

yea thats what my theory was

its not a very M kinda M game if u know what i mean

to put it simple theres light and heavy ratings(just like the guy i quoted said) so halo3 would be under light because of the mild amount of blood when someone dies and the fact that you "kill". the fact that they made it M is because it met those guidlines for it not to be teen(T)

the desicion is up to u, personally if i had a son id let him buy halo 3, its not gonna be that violent, well not as violent as gears of war anyway, but get him halo, he probably already watches R rated movies, so what diffrence is a M rated game??

so my answer is yes get it for him

[QUOTE="GIJesse77"][QUOTE="jamejame"]

It's really not that violent, you do kill obviously, but that's about it. There's a minimal amount of blood maybe left on the ground where the person died, but it's NOWHERE near as bloody as Gears. Ultimately though, he's your son, you should be able to decide for yourself by watching some vids. I've been playing Halo since I was 8, it hasn't effected me, and frankly I think your kid would be fine playing it.

jamejame

hi everyone i dont play games much. my son has been bugging me for sometime now. Ido know if its anything like gears of wars he can forget it. Halo 3 has gotten a M rating and thats fine as long as i dont see anyone getting cut in half im fine. So whats the most violent part about halo? BTW my son is only 11.

thanks

prettynice422

[QUOTE="Trickshot771"]Don't get it for him. The less 11 year olds playing Halo 3 the better.SpaceDragonMan

Who the hell do you think you are? Everyone deserves to play it you elitist snob...

so which would you rather have 11 year olds annoying us to death whenever we try to play halo 3 online or a clean counsieance its for the good of the community that 11 year olds dont play

[QUOTE="GIJesse77"][QUOTE="jamejame"]

It's really not that violent, you do kill obviously, but that's about it. There's a minimal amount of blood maybe left on the ground where the person died, but it's NOWHERE near as bloody as Gears. Ultimately though, he's your son, you should be able to decide for yourself by watching some vids. I've been playing Halo since I was 8, it hasn't effected me, and frankly I think your kid would be fine playing it.

hezbollahector

same here! a played quake 2 on ps1 when i was 7

Stop it you guys are making me feel old... I was playing old school Super Mario Broson my NESwhen I was 8. :oops: