User blog comment:Traditionalfire/Killing in games/@comment-2186773-20120920210825

I'm actually surprised there isn't more brutal treatment of aliens in ME, because from in a 12-rated game you can do things to aliens that would get a game banned if they were human. For example, Half-life 2 is rated 15, yet you can shoot gravity gun saw blades at head-crab zombies, tearing them into bloody little pieces, because they're zombies, not humans.