Reader/Listener Anatoly N. writes the following note regarding the banning of this game in Russia:
John, please watch this and tell me this game should be available in Russia. Bear in mind that in Russia we don’t have age differentiated rating for games & movies it’s our fault, i know.Also picture that game’s action is taking place in “US airport named after Osama Bin Laden”. But at 1:27 in the clip it says “Zakhaev International Airport, Moscow, Russia”. There is no such airport. It’s obviously named after Akhmed Zakayev the Chechen ex Prime Minister accused by Russia of terrorism. And even if we don’t care about this crap, this scene should not be in the game anyway. It’s too cruel.
This scene is ridiculously sick, I agree. But if you can actually watch it, it makes you cringe because there are too many airports that are crawling with lots of machine-gun toting security forces. Kind of creepy to think about what would happen if one went berserk.
This is terrible. Training the kids to kill, kill, kill will bring us a totalitarian America. The older generation will have to kill the younger generation to stay alive.
Can someone make a mod so it can be McCarran Airport and we can shoot all the stupid tourists coming into Vegas? I’d never leave my PC. Or maybe just a GTA mod so I can run them over when they’re jay-walking on the Strip. Fucking tourists! Obey the traffic signals! You don’t want to end up in our shitty hospitals here.
It’s just a game people. And yes, I will be buying it once it comes out for the PC. Still have to finish the last one though.
Yes, it’s a game alright. Just as police & army battle simulators are a game.
RBG
Only a complete moron would think that exposing shit like this to a kid for years, won’t have any long term psychological influence on them, whatsover. How many of the kids are on (legal) mind altering drugs as it is…?
Most will be fine…
Re: # 16 shield2081… True it’s just a video game, but there’s a big difference in play-killing unarmed and innocent civilians, and play-killing armed opponents who have a fighting chance.
Too sicko for my taste.
Jeez get a grip people. Ever seen Die Hard 2? Y’know, the one where the terrorists massacre civilians in an airport?
Y’know, where they cause a full jetliner to plow into the ground killing every man, woman and child on board?
Just good clean fun.
This level is an essential part of the (fairly OK) storyline of this game. It’s meant to be thought provoking, not gratuitious.
Boy is this an old argument, it’s as old as video games themselves. Abject violence in a politically incorrect context. Big deal! I got news for those of you that don’t play, and never explore the darker side of themselves through fantasy, IT’S A GAME. It’s not an educational experience, it’s a recreational one.
Of course, there’s always somebody there to try to censure your fantasies, all hypocrites. Everybody got at least a little darkness in their soul. Like it or not it’ll raise it’s ugly head, the question is – What are you going to do about it?
It’s not banned in Russia:
http://quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=56010
Just sad…
But nothing new.
When my nephew played the first Syphon Filter
game for the PSone, you reach a place in the
game where the only way to proceed is to shoot
an unarmed scientist on his knees , begging
for mercy , in the back of the head.
Then when his son played GTA Vice City , one
level is running through a shopping mall,
seeing if you can shoot 20 ‘gang members’
within the time limit.
I felt like the scene highlighted serious flaws in the games mechanics, and really wasn’t necessary to move the story along.
from my review:
Modern Warfare 2’s plot is over the top referencing Red Dawn quite a bit, in stark contrast the fourth mission is one of the most un-easying and emotional moments that most people playing the game will have experienced in a video game. When you first boot MW2, the game will ask you if you would like to be warned when an extremely graphic mission when you get to it. The game puts you in the shoes of a CIA operative that has infiltrated a Russian terrorist cell, the mission opens with you walking out of a freight elevator on to the concourse holding a LMG a long side 3 other individuals. One individual says “no russian”, and then they open fire. The first-half of the mission plays out like an interactive cut scene while hundreds of civilians are mowed down in front of you, if you pause the game gives you an option to skip the mission. You can walk through the concourse not firing a single bullet, yet if you shoot the terrorists your mission fails and is reset, admittedly killing the terrorists would have likely changed the entire plot going forward. However it highlights a serious flaw in the series linear game play, not being able to play out the mission as your instincts guide you, cheapened the experience for me. The mission is in a grey-area having the mission in the game opens it up to flak from the outside media, yet the liner game play extremely limits my experience and alongside the ability the skip the mission almost feels like a cop-out, failing to move the industry forward in storytelling. The whole game feels conflicted between serious and over the top, for example the mission preceding the airport level ends with a driving sequence on a snow mobile shooting your glock GTA style at enemies on snow mobiles.
I found this scene quite fun and play it over and over again. I especially enjoy shooting the preppy folks in the Starbucks. It was worth pirating the game just for this scene.
#45 Anatoly Nechaev said,
Probably not. -however you can bank on the media/politicians using it as a sensational scape goat to make sure we remain divided-on everything no matter how invalid.
I think it is pretty ironic that we are becoming more like some corrupt, warped version of the former Soviet Union and Russia is becoming more like what America once stood for..
One of your fellow countrymen has an excellent blog that illustrates this
(and other events in the world) with simple clarity and common sense on a daily basis.
http://mat-rodina.blogspot.com/
-s
Interesting.
Let’s turn on the 2nd Amendment and re-run the simulation.
Nothing new here. Most American military games have missions that regularly break Geneva Conventions, but hey, America rules!