
We won’t know until we play for ourselves. The scene is designed to evoke the atrocities of terrorism.” Right now, Activision is saying players may choose not to “not to engage in the gameplay.” That could mean choosing not to fire your weapon or the possibility “opt-out” of the level entirely. In order to defeat him, the player infiltrates his inner circle. “The game includes a plot involving a mission carried out by a Russian villain who wants to trigger a global war. “Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 features a deep and gripping storyline in which players face off against a terrorist threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse,” the spokesperson added. “The leaked footage was taken from a copy of game that was obtained illegally and is not representative of the overall gameplay experience in Modern Warfare 2,” an Activision spokesperson told IGN. The footage was confirmed and Activision did respond, Activisons response on IGN: Now this seems to make a bit more sense, its not a blood-lust killing game but simply a wrong place wrong time type thing.

Clues after the loading screen are hard to identify, however, the theory is later reaffirmed when Makarov shoots your character as you attempt to climb into the getaway van, and says “Here’s your message,” almost teasing your character for the presumption that your infiltration had gone unrecognized.” text directly below the logo, which is then extended and followed by illegible words, presumably identifying the official title of the ultranationalist faction. The graphical transition is accompanied by an alteration to the C.I.A. logo and morphs into the logo of the Russian ultranationalist organization which the game’s antagonist, Vladimir Makarov, leads. The loading screen, which reveals the transition between playable characters and factions, begins with a C.I.A. operative who has infiltrated the group in order to gather intel. “From what we can gather from the dialogue and gritty video, the role of the playable character is that of a C.I.A. But a closer look tells a different story, quoted from IGN: When a video gets leaked like this it does not portray the game very well for multiple reasons, from the video it seemed as if the game is almost a terrorist simulator.

As for Call of Duty, it has a more realistic approach which makes the scene very disturbing and somewhat offensive.īut I’m not here to bash the game, from a personal opinion I don’t find anything wrong with such content. We have seen other games portray the same violence but in more of a comical or artificial setting. As usual, I expected it to not really be nearly as bad as the hype makes it sound, but in this case I have to say it is quite shocking.
