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For those that haven’t played the new Call of Duty and want to avoid spoilers, you might want to stop reading this article here.
The “No Russian” airport mission was deemed too much for the Russian government, hence the recall. Infinity Ward seems to understand the reason for it, and have released patch for the PC version. They have also announced an edited version of the discs expected back in Russia within the month.
Responses to “Modern Warfare 2 Recalled in Russia”
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:01 pm said:
Umm, let’s say to heck with Spoiler’s and you tell me what was so offensive on the mission. I’m damn curious.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:09 pm said:
You walk through a Russian Airport with a heavy machine gun and murder people, youre doing it as an undercover CIA operative trying to take down an arms dealer. At the end the guy kills you and frames you.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:17 pm said:
Yeah, I can understand them being pissed. In the same way idiotic, ahem. I mean, Patriotic Americans would be pissed if you had to do the same thing in an American airport as an undercover terrorist.
That game sounds fun.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pm said:
By framing the CIA operative who is American, the Russian government sees this attack as an act of war. So in turn, Russia attacks Virginia and takes the White House. It is understandable that Russia would want this game “censored” before releasing it to their citizens.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pm said:
That sounds twice as fun.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:27 pm said:
Americans were already pissed about doing it in a Russian Aiport.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:44 pm said:
the game asks you TWICE!!! if you want to play the mission, and tells you it will not penalize you for skipping the mission.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pm said:
Yup, but people are stupid dbot. They think that since it was even made that its horrible and should be banned from everything.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:49 pm said:
You can also pause the game at any point during that mission and skip it.
on November 16th, 2009 at 6:11 pm said:
But it sounds so damned fun to play…
on November 17th, 2009 at 6:30 pm said:
I thought it was put in correctly for the story… And besides, THEY INVADE VIRGINIA, which I thought was just as over the top as the Russian Airport part. But once again government censorship blah, blah, blah. I’m glad the U.S. didn’t recall it.
on November 18th, 2009 at 7:49 am said:
This is one of those tough topics on censorship for me. Gov’t censorship is wrong, but censorship itself is a daily occurence and honestly a good thing.
You exercise censorship every day when you choose to watch one show over another – or telling your kids they can’t watch it. I exercise it several times a day by changing the station whenever I hear Pearl Jam or Nirvana.
Too many people think that just because they are offended by media means the media shouldn’t exist. On some level I can agree, child pornography comes to mind. But if they used my scale of offense cable news wouldn’t exist.
In my eyes the developer has done the right thing. Make the game you want, in the same way I would tell an artist to paint a picture or a director to make a movie the way they want, then recognize you may make some people uncomfortable. In this case, they made the scene skippable (though could be an entire game for me and I’d love it). An artist can put a warning up at their show, or put possibly offensive content in a separate section (anyone see the babies at the Body Worlds exhibit?). A director can get an NC17 rating, or even exclude the scene from the theatrical release knowing they’ll still make a killing on DVD/BD sales.
on November 18th, 2009 at 10:18 am said:
Personally. I quite enjoyed mowing people down in the Russian airport.
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