All dialogue except your responses is spoken so there's not a whole lot of reading and kids at a teen level will be able to handle the vocabulary. There is no use of four-letter words that I can recall and probably the main reason this game got an M is due to some drunken bad guys in the early game as well as some of the more adult situations you encounter in the game. Still, movies are rated PG-13 for much more bad stuff than I found in Jade Empire so I think it's pretty safe to let this one slide a little below the ESRB rating. It's also shorter than most Bioware RPGs. A player with a shorter attention span will probably be able to make it to the end without too much trouble. In addition, replay value is high given all the combat styles you're likely to never even touch the first time through. There's also the ability to be a good or bad guy that can change many of the scenes within the game.