Halo 5: Guardians (Video Game 2015) Poster

(2015 Video Game)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Cortana is in a flashback. She looks like she usually does. Nude outlines with no details. Additionally, a male AI in Meridian Station is also nude. Same rules apply to Cortana.

Violence & Gore

  • The game has less blood than other halo games however the assainations are extremely violent and brutal.
  • "Supernova" (legendary) - the assasin sticks a plasma grenade on the victim and grabs then by their leg and spins them 180 degrees, letting them go and the plasma grenade explodes.
  • This game has t levels of blood but the violence especially assainations are really over the top.
  • The assassinations are brutal! Some contain blood when stabbed and breaking/snapping bones.
  • There are a few particularly violent assassinations that are surprisingly graphic, especially for a T rated game. Most the extremely brutal ones are unlocked via the req system. Noteworthy ones are.
  • "Shove it" (uncommon) - your Spartan takes the enemy Spartans knife and stabs it into their eye, you then proceed to shove your knee into the knife.
  • "Oh Snap" (rare) - your Spartan breaks the enemy Spartans arm, and proceeds to stab them.
  • "Back Breaker" (ultra rare) - your Spartan picks up the enemy Spartan and smashes them onto your knee.
  • "Terminal Velocity" (ultra rare) - your Spartan charges at the ground with a knife and brutally takes them out. A large amount of blood comes from the head when you preform this assassination.
  • "Knee-dful Things" (legendary) - probably the most violent one in the game. You pick an enemy Spartan up and proceed to bash their head with your knee about 5 times before they die. This is very graphic.
  • You shoot/slash/punch aliens in the campaign with guns and lasers, they will bleed out from minimal to large amounts, there is no gore, however.
  • You shoot/slash/punch other humans in the multiplayer. there is no blood splatter on surfaces but the spartans themselves bleed out.
  • In the first mission in the game, you jump off a cliff and immidiatly engage in intense combat with elite enemy's, this is intense but each violent act is quick and the camera turns away every few second.
  • Some weapons can disintegrate enemies, turning them into ash, which may be disturbing to some.
  • A super-soldier kills an Elite by stabbing in the neck with a knife with blue blood spurts, which is quite graphic but with no injury detail.
  • Intense, large-scope battles may be frightening to some.
  • The violence, although fantastical and with little blood, is very frequent and almost non-stop as it is the main thing you do in the game.

Profanity

  • Other players encountered in online multiplayer may also swear in voice chat. These people can be muted ingame
  • No swear words stronger than Damn are used, although in battle you may hear chearectors scream "Buck, There's more coming!" And you may be mistaken for "Fuck, there's more coming!"
  • "Hell", "Damn" and "Ass" are frequent flyers, but that's about it.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • References to drinking alcohol as they refer to buying "rounds" at a bar.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • If Halo 5 where a movie, it would be rated PG-13 for some Intense Violence, Mild Language, Peril and some Bloody Images.
  • Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence.
  • The multiplayer is very competitive and can be intense.
  • The villain, who you fight numerous times in boss battles, is quite menacing as he is very large and powerful and sometimes chases you, which can be quite intense.
  • The fact that you play as a character hunting down another beloved character who has gone rogue may be intense/upsetting for some people.
  • The prospect that a heroic character may have killed lots of innocent people and has abandoned humanity is very bleak.
  • The Guardians are massive, towering constructions, which may be frightening to younger viewers as they posses a great threat and are very mysterious.
  • The player lands on very eerie and mysterious planets. The central characters are constantly in peril; being hunted, fighting, dying etc. The whole campaign gets intense when the Guardians are set loose as there is an impending sense of doom along with the disappearance of the Chief.
  • At the end of the game, the Guardians attack infinity and turn off all the power which may be intense and frightening for some people as they are hopeless to stop it. Cortana is quite intense as a villain as she possesses great power. It is also very bleak because the Master Chief has lost Cortana, the UNSC is disbanded and under threat, and although Chief and Locke come together at the end, it is in very dark times as they are stranded on a desolate planet with the Arbiter who has lost most of his army from the civil war and fighting the Forerunners.
  • The aliens can be frightening for younger viewers, especially the Elites and the Warden Eternal.
  • Towards the end, the game gets very emotional.
  • Stakes are incredibly high in this game almost on par with Halo 3.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • There is a special "execution" where a female spartan will sit on another Spartans face basically crushing them and holding up the peace sign.

Violence & Gore

  • Two fully-armored super-soldiers fight in a hand-to-hand combat scene. The scene is intense because one of the soldiers is a beloved character and he gets his helmet cracked after being beaten. However, he wins the fight by force of strength and locks the other soldier's armor. This scene is PG in terms of violence as there is no blood/injury or show of pain whatsoever as their faces are concealed along with the rest of their body with thick armor.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • When Cortana is revealed to be the villain and locks Chief away in a cryptum, it may be upsetting/intense for some people.

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