hellforge.gameriot.com — Every copy of the console version of Modern Warfare 2 has been recalled from stores in Russia due to the content of the ?No Russian? mission, better known as the controversial airport massacre level. Likewise, Infinity Ward has released an official patch for the PC and Steam versions of Modern Warfare 2, entirely removing the mission from the game.
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mujokanNov 15, 2009
Your tastes are of course not a matter of dispute, but I think your conclusions on the actual consequences of gaming aren't supported by evidence. I'd say the same regarding your assessment of my motives in "denying responsibility" (which also begs the question). Training a soldier using a simulator doesn't necessarily mean that the purpose of such simulations is removing empathy for others. There's a much more obvious goal -- improving reaction times, ability to make quick judgments, and so on. It's a bit facile to make an argument "soldiers often quash their empathy for the enemy --> soldiers may sometimes use simulators in their training --> simulators are used to quash empathy". Such arguments fly in the face of the experience of the people you're talking to. I find that my empathy is reduced when (actual) people deliberately oppose themselves to me -- like my noisy neighbors who turned up the music at 1:30am when I asked them to turn it down. (That made me pretty damn mad, but I didn't do anything further about it.) Gaming is altogether different, because -- you guessed it -- there's no-one there.If you're coming for a discussion, it's cheap to label counterarguments as mere rationalizations. It's also not a good idea to generalize too much without providing evidence. I fully respect your tastes, and I also respect your right to vent on Digg, however. The best way to convince gamers to choose different games is probably using arguments relating to aesthetics and so forth rather than the downfall of society, because we've seen those a million times and they don't get more convincing. Another argument you could be using against me here is online gaming -- not virtual blood, but the actual hate speech and so forth that gets used in online chat sometimes. Then there actually IS someone there, and that stuff is a lot more relevant in ethical terms.
phoyoNov 15, 2009
Whoa, wait up. How can Russia ban the game if I just killed them all?
nimsimNov 15, 2009
LordGravewish, if it was pirated, it would say "Not a steam game: Modern Warfare 2" or something along those lines.
sab0tageNov 16, 2009
It sets up pretty much the entire story. Sure, they could do it through a voice over during a loading screen but it sets it up quite well and gets the point across that the antagonist is an evil **** who will do whatever he wants to get what he wants, which is all out war between Russia and the US.
lynxzyNov 30, 2009
"Remember, no Russian(s) can play this game." Pathetic. It's a game! Tell you're face!
center311Dec 2, 2009
I remember "Hot Coffee" got way more media attention than this. Whats worse sex or violence?
nathaniel32Apr 19, 2010
all i can say is that if an entire country bans a game... you know it has a subliminal message in it, i honestly dont care about it though, so what if you kill russian civilians in a game...chances are you wont even go to russia in you life...