[Official] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

[Chasethebase Veteran]

Third person is there for fun, it's like the 'Action Sack' playlist in Halo 3. It might not give you exp/ranking but it's there for pure fun.

[Neo003]

Damn it I'm going out of country a day before the game's release. :cry:

[LingeringSoul]

Oh great soccer moms and half of America is going to be butthurt in tears after this.

Some SP storyline spoilers.

Games are turning kids into Terminator, etc, etc. Hey, 9/11 will probably be blamed on games after that gets mainstream coverage.

The video isn't playing for me, but there is another mirror over here.

It's unfortunate that the scene is given to us with no context whatsoever (and most of us don't understand the language). For the average Fox news viewer, it's basically going to look like a game in which the intended purpose is to kill innocent people, even though everybody with an IQ over 60 knows that isn't true.

[Green_Eye]

Damn it I'm going out of country a day before the game's release. :cry:

I'm going to be away till November 16th :cry:

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

The video isn't playing for me, but there is another mirror over here.

It's unfortunate that the scene is given to us with no context whatsoever (and most of us don't understand the language). For the average Fox news viewer, it's basically going to look like a game in which the intended purpose is to kill innocent people, even though everybody with an IQ over 60 knows that isn't true.

Apparently there is actually an achievement for not pulling the trigger at all... (in other words you have a choice).

To be honest I've had second thoughts on this and for once I actually do think it better have a worthwhile context, if not it is really just sensationalism for the sake of it. It's not really a boundary that NEEDS to be pushed, in terms of boundaries I think the likes of Heavy Rain doing adult themes, nudity that's not for the sake of it, language, violence, realistic death is more understandable for the medium of gaming story telling.

I have a feeling though something like this wouldn't be pushed into a game by a reputable developer like IW for the sake of it, I just hope the story takes itself pretty seriously to be aligned with such a concept as what's shown in the video.

Either way IW/Activision will be hitting the headlines, so you do hope it's not being done primarily as a marketing move by our favourite Bobby Kotick.

[medicnick83]

The 'no' dedicated server thing really screws over the south africans who wanna play the game.

Whenever we join overseas servers, we get booted because our pings are too high, we have our own gaming site (1 of a few: games.saix.net ) that hosts servers for us to play on.

damn you activition!

[jonhapimp]

just imagine your playing grand theft auto except with better gameplay and story and first person(for the most part)

[Huleboeren]

Apparently there is actually an achievement for not pulling the trigger at all... (in other words you have a choice).

snip

Well theres one achievement I wont be getting

[Tech Star]

Is there another link to the video? They are all down. :(

Edit: http://www.destructoid.com/is-this-a-moder...r--153300.phtml

Found one.

Edited October 28, 2009 by Tech Star

[Lezard]

http://www.lazygamer.co.za/xbox-360/does-m...d-it-be-banned/

here is another

[Black Flash]

http://www.lazygamer.co.za/xbox-360/does-m...d-it-be-banned/

here is another

How is that disturbing? I fail to see why people make a big deal out of everything. Innocent people have always been getting shot. I actually find it interesting that they let you do it from the terrorist's perspective.

Also I wonder what's going to happen with this in Australia now :p

Edited October 28, 2009 by HazeFaceKillah

[Lezard]

It is disturbing, because people love being self righteous and hippocrates. like on GTA.. you kill innocents and take their cars, do the hookers and kill them for your monies, how is that different?

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

It is disturbing, because people love being self righteous and hippocrates. like on GTA.. you kill innocents and take their cars, do the hookers and kill them for your monies, how is that different?

Well for a start GTA has always adopted a more comical approach to violence, even in GTA4 it's not suppose to mimic "real life". I'd suspect COD will be somewhat trying to tackle real world issues in a more serious tone than GTA.

Therefore the issue it has is does it sit on the fence with realism and in other words a scene like this just comes across as distasteful or "we're doing it for the lulz and drama", or does a scene such as this really fit into the game? It's hard to say seeing as we aren't seeing the scene in context, it's just a direct lift right out of the game without any back story.

There's a difference between adult/mature themes in games and just outright "we're doing it for the sake of it violence", some gamers fail to see that at times and just class all violence as "adult themes, STFU media/government/complaining moms".

[Lezard]

Well, regarding whether the scene we just saw was without any back story, we will have to wait till it is released...or delayed to be able to judge.

At the present, everyone is just over-reacting to some leaked footage, that probably was not the first chapter, but in the middle of the game perhaps.

I just hope it is justified, if only to shush all the soccer moms and politicians.

But Faux news will have a ball with this one; If they already haven't lol.

[Tech Star]

It's too late to change it, it has gone gold. :D

[Neo003]

Just saw the video and I think they'll be hearing from those b****y soccer mom prettysoon. But activision has done really good job taking out the video on the internet though.

As I said before you all a** holes will be playing the game while I'll be on the goddamn f****** plane. :angry:

[.Patrick]

Anyone have a working link? Can't seem to find the video.

[Neo003]

Anyone have a working link? Can't seem to find the video.

Check you PM and watch it before it's taken down. :p

[Matt B]

it will be banned in australia in 3.. 2.. 1..

[Neo003]

I'm wondering if they terrorist like bin laden and the people who blow up hotels and the one in mumbai played gta or cod before they did what they did.

[carmatic]

just watched the video myself...

well , it does look like its meant to be a very badass way of introducing the main villain... like right before the player character gets shot at the end, you can see the guy and the van , and if you watched

and skip to 1:26, you will recognize them in the leaked video even tho its blurry... Edited October 29, 2009 by carmatic

[Matt B]

if you go back and watch the original teaser for the game it makes much more sense now and yeah carmatic, i think it'll be pretty shocking!

[carmatic]

i still think that this is a pretty unusual move for IW ...if it were up to me i'd put the player as one of the civilians, and have the level play out as an optional stealth minigame, well obviously optional anyway since if you get shot and killed, its just part of the storyline...

if you run to safety it ends the level...

but if your good enough and you follow the bad guys all the way through without getting spotted, you'll be rewarded with all sorts of goodies, including the encounter with the boss... heck maybe even pick up a gun or two along the way and start a little shootout just as theyre escaping onto the van, it'd be 'mile high club'-difficult but that's how i'd have it anyway

this way, the end result is the same, an optional early encounter with the end boss , since they made their sequence skippable.... and they'd get a whole less flak that way

i mean , im getting the impression that IW is losing touch of reality, like getting rid of dedicated servers? killing civilians?

Edited October 29, 2009 by carmatic

[t0mbi]

new source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqYnlDpQ8WM

blurry..but visable

[Chasethebase Veteran]

It is confirmed that you can select whether or not you want to play through the next scene. And 18+ is plastered all over the box. So it isn't like there's a warning.

Also the news say kids shouldn't be playing it, if it's 18+ who's to blame there? Oh wait. The ridiculously fail parents.