Video Game Ratings!

After every video game as been written, designed and tested, it goes to the ESRB. They rate the video on many different levels. The ratings range from E (everyone), E10+ (everyone 10+), T (teen), M (Mature 17+). There is also AO (adult only) and you can imagine what is in those games. But there are, at most, 10 of those games ever published. What I am most irritated about is how they rate them. Games such as Call of Duty (the older ones) are rated T, but they still have bloody killing in a realistic way--as if you were really fighting in the war. Then you have Halo which is quite a fun game yet rated M. When you compare the 2 games Call of Duty is defintely worse. In Halo, you might be shooting and killing, but there is hardly any blood. You are killing aliens and there is nothing realistic about it. This really sucks because a lot of parents will NOT let their 6th, 7th, and 8th graders play M games. So Halo is off limits but parents will let their kids play a war game in which you can kill other people and see their blood! The most recent Call of Duty game is rated M and I think the game deserves the M rating. Not that isn't an excellent game, but I just can't imagine it being rated T. Call of Duty is not the only game like this. The new Tom Clancy game is T and I think it's probably as bad as Halo (which isn't all that bad unless you're against shooter games). Halo is still M and Tom Clancy is T. This really is annoying. Now Halo and other games like it have now built up such a bad rep as a really violent terrible game and yet Medal of Honor is still T rated, but has the same level of violence as Halo, Call of Duty, and the Tom Clancy games. But Medal of Honor has a good rep (not perfect but not as bad as Halo or others) so it gets a T rating. I don't think the ESRB can fix this now. But I definitely think that they need to start comparing different games before they rate any new games. And just so you don't think that I'm not singling out only Halo, Dead or Alive 4, Mass Effect, The Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion, The Thief Trilogy, and Devil May Cry 4 just to name a few are also facing the same issue. All got M ratings when Call of Duty 2 and 3, The Bourne Conspiracy, Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter 1 and 2, and War Hawk all got away with T ratings when they really deserved the same rating as the previously mentioned games!