Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Teaser

    Wanted to introduce you guys to a little thing called the "spoiler tag"

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    you click on it and put words inside it so people casually browsing the website don't see major details of things

    http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hel ... al-Opening

    Higher quality, longer video that includes the intro to the level, and without some annoying dude providing running commentary, so you can

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    hear the screams and stuff in the background, I find this actually pretty disturbing to watch with those details.

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    I just know specifically the bit with the one guy trying to drag his friend to safety and getting killed is going to be the clip that gets played the most on the news covering it.

    spoilered for you

    -KFS

    wow, I never expected this. It is actually a bit much. I don't see how they can get away without an AO rating, but At the same time I hope it doesnt get cut. I like when people push the bounderies.

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    Really Really Bad

    Infinity Ward crossed the line. Way way over the line.


    Playing as terrorists ... shooting US Troops... shooting civilians... WAY WAY OVER THE LINE.

    lmao

    Why is this always such a big deal, it's just video game, it's not real, even if you play satan shooting jesus, god and all Christians of the world, and you enjoy it, well it's a videogame, you enjoy it because you know it's impossible or extremely illegal/wrong to do it in real life and it's possible on your computer, even the littlest kid knows the difference between these two, so what does it matter who you are and who you're shooting, it's not real!

    I think the whole point of it is to make you uncomfortable. I wasn't planning on getting the game before but I think I just might have to, now. I love a good campaign that makes me uncomfortable to play it, but is so engrossing/good/effective that I have to. It's like watching a great movie that makes you feel like shit or sparks a emotions that normal movies don't (Requiem for a Dream, anyone? It's one of my favorite movies, yet I've only seen it once because I can't put myself through that again).

    Unless IW gets massive heat from this and ends up having to remove it because of the damn general public. Then I won't get it. That'd be like if Aronofsky re-edited Requiem to have a happy ending, but then again I'm one of those games-are-art hippies.

    For all we know IW/Activision can be doing their own version from the page of GTA marketing: use controversy to get their mega selling franchise to sell even more? It's hardly needed, as everyone knows the game will be a blockbuster but I am assuming they know exactly what they are doing until proven otherwise.

    But beyond debating if the footage leak was a PR stunt or not I think the content of it builds on the edgy-ness of the sequence in MW1 with the 1st person execution. Sure, this is waaaaaay more edgy but it shows IW is thinking about pushing the boundaries as mentioned in this thread already. I'm still going to play the game (360 or PS3 or PC?) but honestly watching that clip kinda made me want to imagine thinking about possibly considering the contemplation of perhaps maybe puking...but it's still just a game. :roll:

    That clip (enhanced by that jackass commentator) made a quite disturbing impression on me too, but I have to see play this in context before I make any judgement. There could be a bigger moral context that isn't depicted here.

    I've seen the footage and I'll sum up my thoughts in one word;

    No.

    To elaborate (I'm blacking all of this because putting spoiler tags in each part is a headache)...

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    This is not a good thing at all, I couldn't honestly believe that one minute you walk into an airport with near enough 20 civilians at the gates and then you just gun them down... wtf? Before anyone starts going "Oh yeah, this is no different from GTA" or whatever, well yes actually it is. In the GTA games, you can choose to goto an airport and kill innocent civilians with a machinegun but you don't have to, there's no objective for you to do that. In this, your objective is clearly to mow down civilians, I felt a little sick watching it tbh, the constant screams in the background make for a harrowing setup.

    There's being a bit daring and then there's this... playing as a soldier in a war, you're pitted against enemies that would pose a threat and not to mention a challenge. This is pointless, you're firing at and raining grenades on people who cannot possibly defend themselves, there's no way you can fail to do this level, just let rip with guns and kill all the civilians in sight. Yeah you've got to fight the Spetsnaz outside (it's a Russian airport), but that's irrelevant. Games are supposed to be challenging, where's the challenge here? Games are supposed to be fun, where's the fun here? It's one thing to be a bit daring and contraversial, I respect IW for trying to do something different but this a bit much imho, there's a moral highground where the line should not be crossed and this steps over that.

    My 2 $.

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