Needless to say, the game's publisher, Activision, enjoyed the media frenzy that followed, and Modern Warfare 2 went on to become the biggest selling game of 2009, despite launching in the latter part of the year.Īs it stands, controversy tends to make games sell - the media's reporting of "evil" games simply helping fuel interest and demand for something that people may otherwise not have heard of. The scene was designed to test players morals - as an undercover agent, should they join in with the chaos, and risk blowing their cover, or stay with the plan, and gun down the same people they're employed to protect? - but the whole thing was, somewhat predictably, dramatically simplified and misrepresented by the media.
Then, just last year, a similarly controversial scene in Modern Warfare 2, which put the player as an undercover agent in a terrorist cell, as they took part in an attack on innocent civilians at an airport, caused a similarly public storm. Occasionally, the news types have a point - a game known as Manhunt 2 made the national headlines a few years ago, as it actually got refused a BBFC rating, on the grounds it was too violent.
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