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The ESRB Says
Blood: GamerDad saw minor blood spatter when injuring enemies. Fantasy Violence: Turn-based battles on a grid are the focus of the game. Mild Language: Typical mild language usage such as 'hell' and 'damn'. Suggestive Themes: Some minor flirting during cutscenes. Making an expansion 'stand-alone' is great because it allows you to enjoy the new features and content without reinstalling the original game - or having played it at all. The decision to make this expansion stand-alone is somewhat odd because the story picks up when the first expansion left off, more or less requiring the player to be familiar with what has happened so far. Which means that you need to be familiar with the original game and first expansion before playing this. Regardless of all that, this expansion adds something that should make it a must-have for fans of the series: the ability to play as an Orc. The new race play very differently than any of the others you have encountered in the series. This seems great - until you only get to play them for the first mission, and then for a while later in the game. The main draw of this expansion is playing as Orcs, so it feels unsatisfying to only get to do it for a portion of the game. There are also new features that add special artifacts sets, selling artifacts, special upgrades, and some others that allow a much greater degree of control on how your units and heroes progress throughout the game. The year and a half engine has been tweaked so the game continues to look good, and more importantly the game still has high quality gameplay that is easily recommended for strategy game fans.  
The overall content in Heroes of Might & Magic V is actually quite mild - the turn-based combat is like 'live action chess', and there is nondescript blood spray during battles. The minor language and innocent flirting and suggestive elements in cutscenes are also nothing beyond what kids see on Disney and Nick shows aimed at 'tweens'. The combination of all of these earned the game a T rating, and I am leaving the GamerDad Age Seal as 14+ with the big caveat that younger kids can likely handle this - especially if you work with them.
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