Aw, the gore dont bother me, its not even comparable to real-life, and all it does is add to a games believability if its supposed to be more serious. Ive played HL with the gore off once, and its not as immersive or believable as it is with it on. HL was meant to be a game that drew you into its story and world, and in trying to make it believable, it shows you what you would expect. Playing it with the parental control on is like playing it with out sound, just not the same. Same with the SoF games, war is not all nice and blood free, but a lot worse then any game or movie can portray, and SoF tries to put you into the role of some operative (havent played it for a while, dont remember its only half-way interesting story that well) and tires to make its game world seem believable. While some will argue otherwise, it can add to a game to make it better. I see nothing wrong with it. I mean even look in the Bible, especially in judges, at the ways God had other people put others lives to an end with, not exactly stuff you would want to read over breakfast. Blood and violence are part of life. While not good, trying to hide and shelter yourself from them does no good at all. Whether you do or dont, unless a person has mental problems, it has shown it really does not have an affect on people. Lol, went off again on seemingly screwy ideas, not that that is surprising tho. . . .
On another note, JK2, a game people around here seem to like, except me, uses the Ghoul 2 engine, altho not well known nor was it working properly at the time of hte release, but its patches have fixed it. Only thing with JK2 is no blood and minimal gore (arms and legs being lightsabered off)