uhhheeeerrrmmm.. Does the TEEN rating on this game scare anybody else? it kind of lower my opinion of the pre game.( dont know why, just does.)
also, in the videos ive seen, i havnt seen a MELEE. and melee's can make or break a game (killzone3). just wondering.

I think the reason why they made it a teen rating is so they game cannot be banned or something like having it cut an made into crap like other games have in countries like Australia or some places in the UK. Plus it being a teen rating you would have a wider player base that can play it.

No, Teen is fine. It doesn't draw as much attention from Teens as a Mature rating does.

Melee is not as powerful as in other games. No worries either.

The teen rating has nothing to do with how the game works.

The melee is not instant kill, you rifle butt (you knock somone down with the end of your gun) which makes them fall on their back, they can either get up and shoot/run or take out their gun and shoot you. If you have a pistol tho, you get a knife, which you can melee faster with and does more damage, but it is still not an instant kill unless they have low health.

When i say instant kill i mean when you down them, there are no instant kills in the game, you have to incapitate someone first, then you can shoot/melee them when their down and it will kill them.

Yeah I too thought it would be an M-rated game but it doesn't change how much I would like this game. Maybe they did that to appeal to a larger audience. What I don't understand is that black ops is rated M and the developers know that many kids get Black ops yet they still make it M rated.

Melee comes in the form of gunbutt / knife.

Pistols are held with one hand, freeing up the other hand for a knife. Knife attacks do not instant kill, and do rather low damage.
All other weapons get a gunbutt swing, which does even less damage than a knife, but knock the enemy on thier back.

If an enemy is knocked on thier back, they can still shoot and get up at any time, but the attacker can choose to shoot at him from a distance or finish him with a slow melee animation. Meleeing a knocked-down enemy is an instant kill, but if you manage to knock someone down, walk over, and slowly smash your gunbutt into him and he's been shooting at you the whole time, you deserve that kill.

I think that would be more left to parents who are buying those games for there kids than the dev's. It's like thinking a kid who is 13 magically makes the money for buying a game without a job xD Also there are laws that make it where you have to be a certain age to buy M rated games.

Oh yeah my mistake forgot the Developers are into the money.

so i gather that the light people with low health get the raw end of that deal?

1. T is fine, helps get it available to more people.

2. Melee knocks you down leaving you the option to shoot or get back up. Small amount of damage.
Edit- unless you use a knife. More damage with it but no knock down. Knife can only be used if you melee with a side arm.

On one of the latest videos it looks like you die instantly from an Molotov cocktail is that true?

i would hope not. that should be a nade's job. :brokencomputer:

Grenades are crowd-control weapons.
They knock you down, but do not instantly incapacitate.

Being knocked down allows you to either get up again or instead shoot while lying on your back and get up later if you survive.

Unlicke when being incapacitated, you do not need a revive-syringe to get back on your feet.

and can medic or other class put u out? lolz :flamethrower:

Teen is fine. I think it's just the way that combat is presented. Parents can't exactly flip out over little numbers popping out of people when you shoot them.

Nades don't kill (unless your at very low health i assume), they are support weapons that help you, they knock down opponents and damage them, not ment for killing like in COD.

Molotovs set people on fire that are hit and they lose health slowly until the fire goes out in x amount of time. (im just guessing, this has not been confirmed as far as i know)

i like that way of damage better. idk, its more rewarding when u see it happen with every bullet. just me?

Yeah. I've heard a knife stab to an unbuffed light is an instant-incap, but I'm not sure.

The whole point of the light body type is unmatched mobility. In other words, if anyone else manages to sneak up and melee you, then they deserve to get that kill. This also applies to being shot since you shouldn't have any trouble jumping over a barricade or diving through a doorway.

Not sure I get where you are going? They should tone down the game since people are buying it for their kids? That is exactly what the rating system was designed to do. Supposedly underage players had to go through their supposedly informed parents to play the game. It's not illegal to buy it for your kid, it's illegal for a store to sell to a kid. But a kid can lay it on the counter with the milk and cookies as long as Mom or Dad pays for it.

Ironically, the T rating will ward off the more obnoxious teens. xD

And you're right, I haven't seen a melee strike in any video. But the devs have said both melee and grenades of any kind (molotovs included) do more knockdown than damage.

Well a 'T' in the USA means a 12 or 15 rating here in the UK, I'm kinda hoping for a 12 cos that normally keeps the kiddies away, but a 15 would be fine.

is the find worth a turtle?

Developers don't decide what a game is rated, the ESRB, PEGI, and other such places do. The only impact Treyarch (or any developer for that matter) can have on a game's rating is how much gore/language/etc. they decide to put into the game.

As for Brink's rating, my interest in the game wasn't sparked by how much my enemies would bleed or the amount of profanity I would hear, so I honestly couldn't care less. I care about gameplay, not rating.

essentially all the teen rating means is that there is little or no blood/gore.


so you are saying that since kids smoke and drink even though they are underage, that the age limit should be dropped down to 12 or whatever, or just gotten rid of?

read these:
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=29949
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=30880
the tone, the graphicness (is that a real word?), the level of realism, and the intensity of the violence, make for a major difference between black ops and brink in terms of how they are reviewed for their ratings. also, the ESRB rating is soley for the single player part of the game. multiplayer alone for most games, as it is designed, would most likely generally get a teen rating. however, it is always listed as 'unrated', and that is mainly due to the social interaction, which ranges from none at all to off the wall cursing and verbal abuse. brink is trying to erase the gap between single and multiplayer, and make them essentially the same. they are also NOT trying to tell a super realistic, brutal war story. so theres no "broken glass being placed into the mouth of a man while he is repeatedly punched" or "pools of blood and dismembered limbs".

a games rating has little to do with how good the game is. its not like a review score. its merely an indicator of how appropriate the content is for younger people. cause seriously, this sort of stuff is really not for children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXiTM7VzLGI