As of this moment, it appears that the official ESRB rating for TOR has not been released.  However, many people speculate it will carry a rating of T for teen.  Amazon also has a rating of Teen on the Collector’s Edition, but a “pending” rating on the regular edition.

My two boys love Star Wars.  Along with all of the movies, we have a seemingly unlimited supply of Lego Star Wars sets, plastic lightsabers, and Rebel/Sith apparel.  The only Star Wars video games that they have played are Lego Star Wars, which they would do all day if my wife and I would let them.

My oldest is still under ten, but if he sees me playing a Star Wars video game, he is going to be immediately interested.  I don’t think he is ready for the complexities of an MMO, but I’m wondering if this potentially T rated game would be OK for him to watch and maybe create his own character to play around with once in a while?

I don’t think that TOR will be any more violent that KOTOR was.  There are sure to be plenty of battles, but the violence will be animated.  I doubt there will be much blood, but George Lucas does seem to have a thing for whacking off body parts.  Perhaps some of that will be included in the game.

Maybe to introduce him to the role playing genre, I will let my son play KOTOR in a couple of years.  Who knows, maybe in a few years after that if TOR is still going strong we will both play in-game together.  Then we will truly have a chance to, “Rule the universe as FATHER and SON!”  Sorry…..I had to throw that in there.  Can you take the “L” sign down from your forehead now, please?  Thank you.