Call of Duty Modern Warfare

ftlnn

Hi All,

Newbie here, excuse my bedding in time..

Looking to check the suitability of Call of Duty Modern Warefare for a 10 year old (good sensible so far maybe 12 yr old compatible). I also hear you can lock out some content, is this true?

Also looking for location to get best price on this and FIFA 10 (ps3)


Chris

Penn

ftlnn wrote: »

Hi All,

Newbie here, excuse my bedding in time..

Looking to check the suitability of Call of Duty Modern Warefare for a 10 year old (good sensible so far maybe 12 yr old compatible). I also hear you can lock out some content, is this true?

Also looking for location to get best price on this and FIFA 10 (ps3)


Chris

I think you can only lock out one bit of the game (admittedly, its the most violent bit), but the rest of the game stays the same, and there is still a lot of violence in the game. Best bet, I'd suggest against it. While your child may be mature for his age, he's still under the age rating, and it's there for a reason.

Perhaps someone else can direct to towards something more suitable.

As for Fifa 10, Tesco's were the cheapest when it came out, but I don't know what the current prices around are. I'd say check there first though. If it's less than €30, that'd be hard to beat anywhere else

ftlnn

thanks for reply paddy85

Most of the reviews reckon, not too much gore or bad language and that if you keep away from the multiplayer online part 10+ okay. Granted who knows who post these. Do you play the game?

ftlnn

Codofwar

Hey ftlnn, I play it a lot and id agree in that it proberbly wouldn't be suitable for a ten year old. The basis of the game is essentially shooting everyone you can and while not a lot of gore there is blood and lots of it. It might be just a bit much for a child of that age unless he plays other similar games or watchs a lot of gory movies and that. If you play the ps3 yourself maybe pick it up yourself have a go of it and see what you think of it.

Penn

ftlnn wrote: »

thanks for reply paddy85

Most of the reviews reckon, not too much gore or bad language and that if you keep away from the multiplayer online part 10+ okay. Granted who knows who post these. Do you play the game?

ftlnn

Not meaning to sound harsh, but I find it very doubtful that any reviews have said that an 18 rated game is suitable for a 10 year old provided you stay away from the multiplayer. The multiplayer is actually the tamest bit of the game I reckon. Compared to some bits in the single-player which have you silently knife people, drown them, watch people get shot right in front of you etc.

If your kid was 15/16 and you felt he was mature enough, then it'd be your decision. But a 10 year old? Even a 12 year old... Personally, I wouldn't. I have played the game and enjoyed it thoroughly. But seeing dead bodies lying about the place, people talking to your character and suddenly being shot. Its not just the blood on people when they die, its seeing people die right in front of you.

Sorry, but again, I must point out that its an 18 rated game for a reason, and still would be when you take out the most violent bit.

I agree with Codofwar that maybe if you play the Playstation a bit yourself, perhaps give it a try and see what you think of it yourself

ftlnn

Codofwar,

Again thanks. I'm not a gamer but renting it out and giving it a go for myself seems like a good idea.

ftlnn

MiCr0

this might be of help to you
http://www.whattheyplay.com/products/modern-warfare-2-for-xbox-360/

"what they play" is a parents guide for video games.

The ESRB in the USA have this as their rating

"This is a first-person shooter in which players assume the roles of members of an elite squadron on the trail of a Russian ultranationalist. Players defend the U.S. from Russian armed forces, engage in skirmishes and combat missions, and track the ultranationalist in an attempt to discover his true motivations and co-conspirators. Players use machine guns, sniper rifles, grenades, and missiles to kill enemy soldiers throughout the battlefields. Realistic gunfire, explosions, and cries of pain are heard during the frequent and fast-paced combat. The most intense depiction of violence occurs during a "No Russian" mission where players take on the role of an undercover Ranger: Several civilians are gunned down at an airport as players are given a choice to participate in the killings (e.g., players can shoot a wounded civilian that is crawling on the ground), or walk by and observe without opening fire. In either case, civilians scream and emit pools of blood as they are shot to death. Within the multiplayer portion of the game, players can unlock "emblems" to be used on their player name cards. Some of these emblems contain images that reference drugs (e.g., a cannabis leaf; a name card with a depiction of a joint). Dialogue in the game contains profanity in both English (e.g., "sh*t") and Russian (e.g., "f**k" and "motherf**ker")."

Quigs Snr

The modern warfare games are violent, I am going to assume you are talking about MW2. Theres plenty of shooting and stabbings, some of them relatively gory in the cut scenes (at the end for example you throw a knife into the bad guys eye). Basically if you are ok with your kid watching say.. the opening scene of saving private ryan, then Modern Warfare will be ok.

Mr E

Thread moved to Call of Duty forum.

Mikeyt086

I was 8 when Goldeneye was out.

I personally was scared to move around corners for fear of dying :pac: Once i realised that i had infinite respawns i was grand!

I would say if your ok with your kid playing a war game, and he is cool with it, then do it.

BostonB

I think its good to stick to the age ratings. Usually.

Keano

OP, if you get it for him now you are setting a precedent for him - sorry to go all PI. Just thinking about it from a different angle.

shawpower

Another option to renting it out to try the game, is to actually go to a store that has consoles set up in the shop to play on. It's one of the biggest games around, so many of them would have it as the game of choice. That way you can watch someone else playing for a few minutes to get an idea. You could also ask at the desk for one of the staff to help with this. Since you are buying Fifa anyway, and possibly this, I'm sure they'd help.

HMV on Grafton street have it, and it was a handy way for me to kill 20 minutes the other day when I was waiting on someone. I'm sure the GAME/Gamestop stores have it too.

Personally, I'd probably not buy it for a 10 year old if I had one. But I know kids of that age who regularly are let watch 18s movies and have this game too. As someone has already mentioned, if your kid falls into this second catagory, maybe it'd be okay.

Useful.Idiot

It's your choice really, if he's played games like that before that I suppose its alright.

I've been playing games such as Doom/Loaded since I was as young as 5 or 6 years old and it didn't affect me much :P

Dcully

Multiplayer and single player are vastly different.
Single player is scripted and designed to be more graphic creating an atmosphere that is totally different to multiplayer.
My 7 year old has had a few games of multiplayer, to him its just another game where hes running around trying to shoot other gamers online with a gun.
Just like Halo, team fortress 2 or whatever.
Hes a clever lad and realises its just a game.
He has seen worse in movies than he will see in MW2 multiplayer for Gods sake.

I wouldnt let him near the single player however.
IMO its a totally different ball game.

If your worried about multiplayer and the abusive voice chat on xbox live or whatever just set privacy settings of voice and text to "friends only"
I wouldnt dream of letting my son online while he can hear your typical xbox live crap or get abusive messgaes form others.
As i say just sort the privacy settings and he will be grand.

However something i think you should be more concerned about is your son getting addicted.
I found for my son atleast with Mw2 it was the first game we saw him get addicted to.
Now we simply dont allow him to play MW at all.
Yeah we had a wee argument when we took this measure but after 20 mins he was fine and is now quite happy to play fifa 10,Forza3 etc.
He hasnt played MW2 in 3 weeks and doesnt even ask for it.

shawpower

Dcully wrote: »

However something i think you should be more concerned about is your son getting addicted.
I found for my son atleast with Mw2 it was the first game we saw him get addicted to.
Now we simply dont allow him to play MW at all.
Yeah we had a wee argument when we took this measure but after 20 mins he was fine and is now quite happy to play fifa 10,Forza3 etc.
He hasnt played MW2 in 3 weeks and doesnt even ask for it.

You made a 7 year old go cold turkey like that?? Well harsh!!

:D

BostonB

Dcully wrote: »

...
He has seen worse in movies than he will see in MW2 multiplayer for Gods sake....

Well he shouldn't be watchin Saw II tbh :eek:

Dcully

BostonB wrote: »

Well he shouldn't be watchin Saw II tbh :eek:

:rolleyes: