Is Halo 2 too Violent?

I used to not play Halo 2 because I thought it was really violent but then I went to a LAN partay about a year ago and saw how much fun it was! It wasn't just senseless violence. Needless to say, A few months later and I had gotten onto LIVE!

The worst you get in Halo 2 multiplayer is their body falls and leaves a red stain, I honestly think that Halo would get a "Teen" rating if weren't for the Flood. Plus you can just pretend they're robots with Red Motor Oil inside. I think that there are actually Teen games that are more violent than Halo 2's multiplayer, though I will not doubt the horrific violence of "the Flood" levels on the Campaign part of the game, in which case I just play the Flood levels once, and then the next time I play through Campaign I skip them. I know it might sound a little silly but I guess I have a queasy stomach or something.

In any case, in Halo 2 multiplayer, there's no organs, no dismemberment, no bones being crushed, no exploding bodies, no skin, just blood. Which is worth noting, but the real thing about Halo 2 that draws me in is how a team can work together to strategize and outwit their opponents. In fact in one of the Halo LAN partays I had, my mom sat down next to me while our team was playing, and I asked her what she thought of it, and she said, "It looks like fun!", and then jokingly added, "When's my turn!?"

I don't know why but for some reason I don't like First-Person Shooter style games, yet I like Halo. I guess there's something about it that makes it special. It's not about the violence, it's about the teamwork. Some great comraderies have come out of my Halo 2 experiences, and it's something special to experience with friends. I know there's a chance I could go overboard and play Halo 2 way too often, but I believe I've found a happy medium in which I can enjoy the game without becoming addicted to it, because I know that if I were to play too much of it, my ol' Xbox could get overworked, (which I plan to hang onto as long as I can until Halo 3), and because I know I could easily get bored of it or get utterly desensitized and jaded, which I don't want to happen. Halo 2 is a great game and I plan to get the most out of it, it's one of the few special things in this world I can enjoy.

The violence is bad, and I've probably been desensitized, so if I ever see a 10 foot tall robot-looking thing walking down the street get a purple beam through his "head" and golden rays and red motor oil falls out and he yells "doof!", I can know that I wouldn't have been as shocked as I would've been had I not played Halo 2, because of the desensitivization.