Do you have a teenage gamer?

[hippohector]

If you have a teenager who plays Call of Duty Modern Warfare can you please tell me what it’s like?
DS is almost 15 and is begging me for it. Apparently ‘all his friends’ play it and he is missing out because I am too strict.

It’s rated 18, but apparently if you turn off the blood and swearing it is more like a 16?
But if I insist he does this and his friends haven’t turned off those features will he still be able to play with them?

I don’t want to be too strict and alienate him from his friends, but yet as his parent I need to be responsible.

Any advice welcome please!

There is not a rating for 13, 14, 15, 16 ... it goes on by chunks depending on the country. I think at 15 Call of duty in any of its version is fine.

I never gave a monkeys about the age rating. My sons now 32 didn’t harm him any

My husband is a gamer as is his friend and they both mentioned that CoD is horribly violent. They talked about a bit where you can shoot a baby and although the game doesn't reward you for doing so they both felt the level of violence was too much.

I just went to ask my husband directly about CoD. He says it's incredibly violent, rated 18 and definitely for adults. Maybe if you can put restrictions on it this might change but it'd be a no from me.

Hopefully the link is copy and pastable, that's a review for parents on the campaign gameplay of c.o.d but it sounds like your son wants to play online with friends more, tbh at 15 having blood on or off shouldnt matter to him, but the game is rated so high because its online let's you play with anyone, but he is 15, I was playing online games with strangers from 13 though not such high violence shooter games more like magic hunting monsters kind of games.

If you think he's mature enough to deal with the themes in the campaign then he will be fine online, at 15 he should know to not meet up with strangers online or give out personally details like real full name or address so the fact that he'll be put on a team with strangers as well as his friends shouldn't mean much to him.