If Halo 5: Guardians actually hits 20 hours in length, that’ll be rather stunning. Even compared with other Halo games, Halo 4 was pretty lengthy – and, if the latest rumors are true, 343 Industries is stepping things up for Halo 5: Guardians.
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Game is now first main game to drop M rating. Plus, it won’t be all that long before players can finally get their hands on it: Halo 5: Guardians is due out on October 27. While the ESRB hasn’t commented about what made Guardians different from previous games in the series, many gamers have speculated that the absence of the Flood (an enemy faction in the series) may be the reason for the Teen rating. Before listing them, it should be noted that there may be light spoilers ahead, so tread with caution. “Characters can also use “assassinations” to kill characters by snapping their necks, or by stabbing them with bladed weapons”.
Remain calm, though. The description they give doesn’t sound terribly dissimilar from its predecessors, and, in fact, one of the major insults used an example for harsh language (“Your father was a filthy colo and your mother was a hole in the wall!”) is just plain filthy. If such revisionist practices are to continue, then maybe one of these days Leisure Suit Larry’s debauched antics will eventually get reclassified as a game that’s E for Everyone.
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343 Industries has an opportunity here with the fifth game to prove the naysayers wrong and rekindle some of the galactic sci-fi magic that Bungie originally introduced into the Xbox ecosystem when Halo: Combat Evolved launched 14 years ago.
