Could Infinite have the Flood while being T rated?

Games Halo Infinite
1

I honestly think if Halo 2 and 3 were released today, they’d be rated T instead of M.

Sure the Flood does play a factor. But after:

  • playing through the Uncharted games and fighting against undead enemies whilst hearing Nathan Drake say “s***” and “a**hole” every other word
  • exploring tombs filled with decayed corpses
  • seeing Arkham inmates being transformed and turned into abominations
  • seeing the Joker’s blooded smile whilst holding a knife
    - being haunted with disturbing images from Scarecrow
  • as well as witnessing the dark lore of Horizon Zero Dawn

I can’t help but think that Halo Infinite could be as “mature” as Halo 2 and 3 and still get a T rating.

Which gives me a bit of hope that 343 isn’t held back when it comes to exploring dark themes and allowing the Flood to be in the game if the story calls for it.

2

They’d have to make it so that the bodies don’t get blown apart to make it a T rating and no one wants Flood that’s unable to be broken into pieces

3

basically make the blood green and the problems solved. Make anything human inhuman and the flexability you have with violence goes up

4

I’m not sure about that. If they keep the flood like H3 then it will dip too far into the M catagory. Between watching a newly infected person scream while snapping their own neck, blowing up the bodies of the flood piece by piece, and the mangled bodies (which I can only imagine what they’d look like in today’s graphics…).

Overall I would say H3 and 2 feel more like T games then M, but with how the ESRB works they would give an M for any one thing.