Portal

Pros & Cons:
Pertaining to My short list below.

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This is one of the most refreshingly new and interesting games to come out for a long time, and is well worth playing.

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Content review for this game:
Pertaining to the ESRB rating.

Intro | Half-Life 2 | HL 2: Episode 1 | HL 2: Episode 2 | Portal | Team Fortress 2

Content-wise: There's no language, your only enemies are robots (who are far and few between), and the blood is pretty mild. Also, it is difficult, but instead of letting your 10 year old play some violent fighting game, let them use their brains (as the puzzles make you).

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Gameplay sum up:

Portal
is rated "T" for Teen.

Blood: Your only enemy are the automated gun turrets; they're programmed to shoot you on site. So when and if they hit you, the main character's blood will splatter onto walls. However, since you see from the main character's eyes (first person), there is no visible blood splatter, just the after effect on walls—blood effects are similar to Half-life 2 but not as extreme. There is no option to turn blood off.

Mild Violence: The game starts out with you waking up in an unknown test facility. You are soon introduced to a disembodied voice of a female computer, who'll put you through 19 tests involving a gun that shoots portals; she your only "companion" in the game. As you take the tests, she says discouraging, almost inadvertantly sarcastic things along the lines of, do not at any point touch the output of the portal gun, as it may kill you, or the radiation in this room is known to cause the loss of teeth, or if you fail this test, an unsatisfactory remark will be put on your permanent record, followed by your death. After almost every remark, she'll then use the same tone of voice to tell you she was just joking, and you weren not in any real danger (yeah, right). It's all disturbingly amusing, funny and sarcastic. You soon find out that you're to be terminated after the testing, now to escape....

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