I thought it was gonna be M for sure!!!

Most game's that are rated M should be rated T
Everybody knows what blood is
Everybody knows what guns do
Most "T" play "M"
Unless their is nudity or graphic murder it shouldn't be rated M

Yeah i was just surprised

Not to be rude, but these topics don't go very far before getting locked.

Haha whatever. Just a nice little survey, no?

Well Splash Damage said they were aiming for T so no I can't say I'm surprised.

Even before SD's comments to this effect it didn't look like the game would have nudity, gore, or excessive blood so unless there was some really hard language it seemed unlikely to get an M rating.

It feels like whenever a moderator is viewing some of my topics its like being watched over by a god

I get sick and tired of every game company releasing their games for "T" audiences when everybody knows that you see more young kids (ages 6-12) playing more gory shooters nowadays then you do anything else. I suppose the U.S. has a big part to play in that, but all that's beside the point.

What I'm trying to get at here is that I'm angry because most game companies deliberately limit the graphic nature of their games and the language in hopes that they'll be able to sell it to a larger audience, when those of younger ages will convince their parents to buy a game even if it has an "M" rating. I'm not talking 'graphic' as in porm, either. I mean bullet holes in bodies and a little bit of gore when grenades or mines go off. The physics and graphics in World at War were a good start to this, but perhaps you shouldn't have been able to completely explode your opponents. And you don't have to go overboard with the language, like they did in Bulletstorm. Just make it realistic is all I'm saying - both kids and advlts alike will buy and play the game if they think it is cool, regardless of the rating.

/rant

And brink being T is news to me as of yesterday haha

Saint, good point

I better get to bed. We will discuss this more tomorrow! Goodnight.

how did this game get T but Halo reach got an M? but hey these ratings are usually weird(uncharted 2 got a T)

I don't even understand your crazy American ratings... in New Zealand I'm fairly sure it goes:

G - General (kid's games)
PG - Parental Guidance advised (like Ratchet & Clank)
M - Mature audiences (eg. inFamous, not for kiddies)
R13 - Restricted to 13 years (on second thought, this one might just be for movies)
R16 - Restricted to 16 years (blood, swearing, war scenes etc.)
R18 - Restricted to 18 years (basically any game that contains sadistic elements or excessive gore)

Previous Halo titles (1-3) got M for Blood and Gore with the Flood. Space zombies tend to do that.
ODST and Reach probably got M for language and, although not mentioned, I imagine intense moments played into it too. I mean, all you have to do is watch how each member of Noble Team died to understand it's not really a game for a teen mindset (even though you can bet there are twelve year old tryhards on it).

http://www.entertainment-electronics.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/esrb_ratings.jpg
That's what our ratings are like. My rant was because I didn't understand it much, either. No one (except control-freak parents) ever uses those ratings, they go by whether it's "cool" or not.

this seems like a Teen game too me so not really amazing honestly.

Most rating systems and censorship don't make sense; I looked up opposing fronts on steam (this is a strategy game a STRATEGY GAME) and had to identify my age while I looked up Metro 2033 (a horror first person shooter A HORROR FPS) and had to give no such information. What?

Australia has (for games):
http://www.classification.gov.au/

G: General (Nothing)
PG: Parental Guidance Advised (Lasers, robots, one or two mild curses) [Motorstorm, Ratchet & Clank, Warcraft III]
M: Mature (Bullets, partial nudity, swearing, deaths) [Burnout, Mirror's Edge, Starcraft]
MA: Restricted to 15+ (More partial nudity, blood+gore, torture, swearing) [Pretty much everything else. L4D, TF2, HL2, COD, Halo, Doom, Resistance, Killzone, Uncharted, Bulletstorm, Company of Heroes, GTA]

Our movies also have R18+ (Nudity, gore, gore, violence, death, dismemberment, cluster-f-bombs). [Quentin Tarantino, Dawn of the Dead, Taxi Driver, Se7en]



For us, Brink will probably be an MA15+, while as a movie it would be PG. If you hadn't guessed, I hate the OFLC. And we have no R18 rating for games, so they either get censored (L4D2) or just slapped with a 15+.

man censoring svcks lol i just can't picture coach AW man... A HUNTER SHOOT THE MOTHER person... BEFORE HE stimulates the economy by purchasing an american car...

Early childhood because pro......jk but i could care less......

Its not "i could care less". Its "i couldnt care less"

What if he could care less, though?

+1 internets for you sir

Not at all surprised. I thought it was "T" from the beginning. ^_^

I just noticed that this game doesn't have blood (or does it) when you shoot someone, I think. (I don't mind either way, but I'm one of those who do not like to see tons of blood and gore and choose censor options for my M-rated, games, hehe. Which is why I will never play a Fallout or Dead Space game in this lifetime, lol.).

Lol "early childhood"
BRINK TO BE RELEASED ON PS3, XBOX360, PC, V-TECH, AND ETCH-A-SKETCH MAY 2011!