If you don’t like big letter M’s on your game cases, then Halo 5: Guardians has a surprise for you. The game will be the first in the numbered series entry to sport a T for Teen rating, according to the ESRB.
The rating bureau’s description seems rather standard for the franchise. Players will reportedly be wielding “pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers, and futuristic weapons” to kill (who else?) “alien and human enemies in “frenetic” combat. Battles will naturally feature “realistic gunfire, explosions, and occasional blood-splatter effects” while characters will be snapping necks and stabbing people.
The real highlight of the description? Apparently Halo 5 will be one for dialogue. “The word “a*s” is used, but more interesting are the insults, “I have copulated…with your genetic progenitors!” and “Your father was a filthy colo and your mother was a hole in the wall!” Plug your ears, young Spartans.
However many creative insults the game’s solo campaign has is something we’ll have to wait to see this fall, but we do know it’ll be twice as long. Multiplayer trash-talking will no doubt depend on your own vocabulary.
Halo 5: Guardians hits Xbox One his Oct. 27th and for pre-download a week early via a special console bundle modeled after the polish of the UNSC.
Via ESRB