mordor_the_redguard

First before anything, I love Feedback, X-Play, AOTS, and just about everything on G4. That said, ouch, just because someone has a different opinion than your own it does not make it invalid automatically, with the exclusion of FOX News, of course.

My main concern about COD: Modern Warfare 2 is that this won't be done tastefully, because the majority of the time, when one kill civilians in a game, it is usually in either a very very bad game, like the Columbine mod released a few years ago, or it is done in a world that was created done where the normal bounds of reality don't exist, like GTA and Resident Evil series. Now, I do believe that a game can be created that is full seriousness and I actually hope to see 6 Days in Fallujah but I am wary about how this MW2 will be handled.

If I heard correctly, Abby compared the scene in MW2 to 24 and other shows and movies. But I don't think Jack Bauer ever killed civilians and if he did it was never in that amount of causalities. And there are very few if any good movies that the hero of the show goes and slaughters a crowd of civilians. The reason the hero is the hero is when I comes to situations like this the hero is a good guy and does not partake or fights against this scenario.

Now do I believe that situations like this don't happen in real life, no. But the fact is the entire Call of Duty franchise is based on this movie like feel which says if it looks awesome in a movie let's do it and if it doesn't don't do it. This is why you don't see a discovery of the concentration camp in the previous WW2 games because it would have brought the full weight of the atrocity on the player and may have caused the player to stop and think. If they had done this in the past I may say, sure it makes sense for a game that has been completely serious in the past to be serious again and take massive leaps forward to surprise and shock people.

And the nuke in the COD:MW was not as big as it was made out to be because of the ad campaign at the time of release that showed the nuke so it was fully expected The level where you play as the president of the Middle Eastern country, on the other hand, was far more impacting because you felt like you had lost control of the situation you had been put in.

I will be getting the game and playing it all the way through unabridged my first play-through, and I hope the scene is done well enough to warrant another unadulterated play-through. The rest of the game I already know will be brilliant and fun.

Thank you for reading my rant,
Mordor_the_Redguard