Your Thoughts on This Please.....

[DavieD55]

That is disgusting...I believe those types of video games do tend to demoralise kids. I also think if you're over the age of 25 and you still sit around and play video games it is time to grow up. I know if/when i have kids they will not be playing video gomes like that. I wont allow that.

[BushMasterBoy]

Only video game I have is Flight Simulator. We have gone from PAC MAN to this? I find this very disturbing. I will never buy this game!

[bogie]

The designers of this game should have their heads examined. I'm sure the target age is the college+ crowd. But lets face it, parents buy this trash for their kids. Playing a game should have no bearing on whether a child knows right from wrong, if they are taught right and wrong. And I'll say this, a parent that buys this game for their child is a $hitty parent.

[Waywardson174]

Must say, I played this game and was quite surprised when this scene came up. Call of Duty walks a fine line between glorifying the role of the soldier in a first person shooter and exposing an otherwise ignorant segment of the population to the realities of war and terrorism.

What this clip and everyone who complains about this sequence FAILS TO MENTION is the ending. The premise is the person you are playing is a CIA operative who spent the last several years infiltrating this group. He is close to the guy on top and this is one of his assignments as a member of a terrorist organization. If you deviate from the mission, you're killed. The gun will not shoot fellow operatives. At the very end of the sequence the operative learns that he is known to the terrorist leader and was used as a sort of Gavrilo Princip for WW3.

There are many reasons to incorporate this sequence into a video game that explores war the way that Call of Duty does. Frankly, I'm of the opinion there are far more liberals working in development of this game than war hawks. Most of the load screen quotations expand on the brutality and cost of war.

To the point that "kids these days" play video games then want to go out and emulate them is a complete load. The Call of Duty Modern Warfare series reached $1 billion in 16 days. That's almost 17 million copies. If 17 million children are truly being brainwashed into thinking shooting up airports is acceptable and cool, we should be seeing far more shootings than we are. The game does not induce the violence. If anything it provides a perfectly safe outlet for violent thoughts.


As an aside, I am not a soldier, leo, etc. What I know of the realities of war I've gleaned from historical accounts, movies, games, conversations with friends in the service. I am in no way trying to assert that I really understand what those realities are.

[Sharpienads]

Must say, I played this game and was quite surprised when this scene came up. Call of Duty walks a fine line between glorifying the role of the soldier in a first person shooter and exposing an otherwise ignorant segment of the population to the realities of war and terrorism.

What this clip and everyone who complains about this sequence FAILS TO MENTION is the ending. The premise is the person you are playing is a CIA operative who spent the last several years infiltrating this group. He is close to the guy on top and this is one of his assignments as a member of a terrorist organization. If you deviate from the mission, you're killed. The gun will not shoot fellow operatives. At the very end of the sequence the operative learns that he is known to the terrorist leader and was used as a sort of Gavrilo Princip for WW3.

There are many reasons to incorporate this sequence into a video game that explores war the way that Call of Duty does. Frankly, I'm of the opinion there are far more liberals working in development of this game than war hawks. Most of the load screen quotations expand on the brutality and cost of war.

To the point that "kids these days" play video games then want to go out and emulate them is a complete load. The Call of Duty Modern Warfare series reached $1 billion in 16 days. That's almost 17 million copies. If 17 million children are truly being brainwashed into thinking shooting up airports is acceptable and cool, we should be seeing far more shootings than we are. The game does not induce the violence. If anything it provides a perfectly safe outlet for violent thoughts.


As an aside, I am not a soldier, leo, etc. What I know of the realities of war I've gleaned from historical accounts, movies, games, conversations with friends in the service. I am in no way trying to assert that I really understand what those realities are.

I tend to agree with this. If you can't tell the difference between video games and real life then you've already got problems. Besides, even Mario threw fireballs at animals and jumped on them until they died. What's worse than that?

[SA Friday]

So, everyone here that's got sand in their VJ over this knows that character you are playing is a undercover operative that's infiltrated a terrorist organization, you don't have to shoot any civilians, and you get doublecrossed at the end of this stage.

Put on your adult undies... It's not a kid's game.

[Sharpienads]

So, everyone here that's got sand in their VJ over this knows that character you are playing is a undercover operative that's infiltrated a terrorist organization, you don't have to shoot any civilians, and you get doublecrossed at the end of this stage.

Put on your adult undies... It's not a kid's game.

Agreed. There is a reason the game is rated M for mature.

[bogie]

OH I C... it's the CIA... nevermind...

[Irving]

Didn't this game come out nearly four years ago?

[JMBD2112]

sure, if you cant tell the difference between life and reality, then yes you do have problems.....but to a young impressionable kid, there's a difference....i think its over the line