Information for Parents

Outbreak

Outbreak

Common Sense Media Age 15

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
The federal government should be candid with citizens when a pandemic hits. Widespread illness can cause panic.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
A village is bombed, supposedly to eradicate a deadly virus, but it later turns out there are other reasons for the attack. People stricken by a terrible disease are seen shaking and moaning with blood seeping out of their ears, eyes, noses, and mouths. Someone describes a victim's organs as "liquefied." Dead bodies are seen. The army shoots at escaping civilians. A monkey is shot with a tranquilizer. A bomb is dropped into the ocean. A man gets a rip in his hazmat suit and contracts a disease.
Sex
Not applicable
Language
"F--k," "s--t," "bastard," and "bitch."
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
Doctors search for the cure for a deadly virus.
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