another Nobel Peace Prize! Bender, stop calling me... 
"Shirley!"
Posted on 10/29/2009 1:15:28 AM PDT by bogusname
Footage leaked from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" reveals that players of the upcoming video game can shoot innocent civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack. The game, which has an "M" rating for mature audiences, comes out next month in what its publisher hopes may be the most lucrative launch in the history of entertainment, not just for games but counting music and movies too.
In a statement, game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. said Wednesday the footage was taken illegally and is not representative of the game's overall experience. Instead, the game is designed to evoke the "atrocities of terrorism," Activision's public-relations agency said in an e-mailed statement...
(Excerpt) Read more at physorg.com ...
Well, as entertaining as much as most of it’s main rivals....
I don’t like shoot em ups at all, but if they are out there I’d rather they were ultra real - e.g. no attempt to sanitise brutality, no vanishing corpses, etc. Hell, if we had smellovision I’d mandate the stench of ruptured bowels and decomposing corpses too...
In terms of whether you should be able to play the terrorists or not, I don’t think the government has any role in choosing who should be playable or not. Most games are easily modded to that effect anyway, and it leads the government into one more area of deciding on who it is appropriate for you to play as.
I don’t like Nazis, but I’ve played as WW2 Germany in many CC or A&A games, just as I have Russia or Britain, Japan or the US.
Agree. Although you just wait - this game will be blamed when some idiot sprays people with lead. People always seek the most convenient excuse, rather than looking at real issues. Thus, expect the game to
be at fault. I guess free will doesn’t exist anymore ...all evil is due to rock music, rap videos, action movies and PS3. Next they’ll start suing the entertainment industry when lil Katie gets drunk and rams the fsm stationwagon ...after all, if she had not played Need For Speed she would never have ‘felt’ the need to have a lead foot?
As opposed to carjacking, points for killing cops, and running over pedestrians for fun...
Like Hollywood, video game makers continue to serve up a dangerous world of omnipresent threats from everything but radical Islam.
another Nobel Peace Prize! Bender, stop calling me... "Shirley!"
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