{"id":2159,"date":"2009-04-02T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2009-04-02T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T18:56:56","slug":"gears-of-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/gears-of-war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gears-of-war-2\"All right!\u00a0 Ok, I’ll cover Gears of War 2. So stop asking! The short of it is “Yes” I disagree with the ESRB and “No” I do not seem to like the game very much.\u00a0 I liked Gears of War fine, wasn’t great but the cover system was new and things blowed up real good. The sequel is several orders worse in terms of writing, plot, characterization, and all the other stuff most teens don’t care about. Maybe I should play more but\u00a0-yeesh- all the\u00a0faceless\/personalityless enemies and the dunder-headed characters. I have trouble getting past that.\u00a0Anyway, “yes” I disagree with the ESRB.<\/p>\n

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Gears of War 2 is a violent game.<\/p>\n

But the gore can be turned off.<\/p>\n

\"x360-gears-of-war-2\"Without blood, it’s still pretty violent.<\/p>\n

(pause) That’s true.<\/p>\n

Gears of War 2 uses most of the profane language you’d hear on a schoolyard.<\/p>\n

Yes, but it has a language filter too. It doesn’t take the bad writing out of the picture though. Oh, it and the gore filter work online. That’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

True, so what’s the verdict?<\/p>\n

It’s one of those games that LOOKS mature because it’s got the red stuff, violence and vocabulary – but I really don’t think Gears is aimed at a very adult audience.\u00a0 It’s rated Mature, but it isn’t Mature – if you get me.<\/p>\n

Kid Factor<\/strong><\/p>\n

14+ with all the safeties on. The reasons are simple, though violent, Gears of War 2 isn’t much more violent than PG-13 movies (think the battle scenes in Lord of the Rings), especially with the gore turned off. The other thing to remember is that the bad words may be overused, but they’re exactly what a 14 hears at highschool.<\/p>\n

16+ for parents who think all shoot ’em up action games that use bad language are bad for younger kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All right!\u00a0 Ok, I’ll cover Gears of War 2. So stop asking! The short of it is “Yes” I disagree with the ESRB and “No” I do not seem to like the game very much.\u00a0 I liked Gears of War fine, wasn’t great but the cover system was new and things blowed up real good. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}