Medal of Honor

[DFUSIONITE]

It's wrong allowing people to play as the Taliban, simple as that. What's next, Call Of Duty - 9/11 where you can fly an airliner into the twin towers? I mean most people including myself would think a game like that would be wrong, and a game were you can play as the Taliban while there are news stories every other week about British soldiers dying in Afghanistan is just as wrong. They shouldn't have even set the game in Afghanistan full stop, not while there is a war on. It's in very bad taste IMO and i won't even be renting it.

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Theres movies and books with US soldiers being killed by the Taliban? I can't see this medium as any different. Who i am and who i kill means nothing to me, it is just a game and i can tell the difference. In my eyes your all starting to sound like the anti-gaming zealots.

[citatscEellE]

Its just art imitating life :/
I just dont get why these games are so popular.. :?

[dfusioness]

there is always going to be 2 sides to this argument, yes it is only a game, and if u are going to censor one thing, u may as well censor all games for various true life content for example call of duty(i forget which one) is a direct map of chernobyl, ,maybe it is about time we moved on from past events,, but the other side to the argument is yes while our boys n girls are out there fighting i dont think it is a good idea to have the ability to play as the taliban, in my opinion this has gone a little too far

[DFUSIONITE]

Theres movies and books with US soldiers being killed by the Taliban? I can't see this medium as any different. Who i am and who i kill means nothing to me, it is just a game and i can tell the difference. In my eyes your all starting to sound like the anti-gaming zealots.

I'm not anti gaming or a zealot, the games about world war 2 are depicting events that happened a very long time ago, the war in Afghanistan is happening now. I have a friend over there now and last time i saw him he was a complete mess because he had no choice but to kill someone for the first time. I am just trying to see it from the point of view of a parent who has lost a child or someone who has lost a partner while they fighting over there. And how can they even treat the subject matter sensitively if the only time you play as the Taliban is online? Sorry but it's just my opinion and I don't mean to sound like an anti gaming zealot, hell I hate people like that and this is the first time I have EVER thought that a game has gone too far. I won't mention it again though.

[dfusioness]

every body is entitled to their opinion , it would be interesting to hear what our boys n girls think of the game though

[Jaynestown]

Theres movies and books with US soldiers being killed by the Taliban? I can't see this medium as any different. Who i am and who i kill means nothing to me, it is just a game and i can tell the difference. In my eyes your all starting to sound like the anti-gaming zealots.

I'm not anti gaming or a zealot, the games about world war 2 are depicting events that happened a very long time ago, the war in Afghanistan is happening now. I have a friend over there now and last time i saw him he was a complete mess because he had no choice but to kill someone for the first time. I am just trying to see it from the point of view of a parent who has lost a child or someone who has lost a partner while they fighting over there. And how can they even treat the subject matter sensitively if the only time you play as the Taliban is online? Sorry but it's just my opinion and I don't mean to sound like an anti gaming zealot, hell I hate people like that and this is the first time I have EVER thought that a game has gone too far. I won't mention it again though.

I agree with that 100%

I'm no anti gaming zealoit either, now, back to running over civilians in Mafia II 

[dfusioness]

Theres movies and books with US soldiers being killed by the Taliban? I can't see this medium as any different. Who i am and who i kill means nothing to me, it is just a game and i can tell the difference. In my eyes your all starting to sound like the anti-gaming zealots.

I'm not anti gaming or a zealot, the games about world war 2 are depicting events that happened a very long time ago, the war in Afghanistan is happening now. I have a friend over there now and last time i saw him he was a complete mess because he had no choice but to kill someone for the first time. I am just trying to see it from the point of view of a parent who has lost a child or someone who has lost a partner while they fighting over there. And how can they even treat the subject matter sensitively if the only time you play as the Taliban is online? Sorry but it's just my opinion and I don't mean to sound like an anti gaming zealot, hell I hate people like that and this is the first time I have EVER thought that a game has gone too far. I won't mention it again though.

I agree with that 100% :

I'm no anti gaming zealoit either, now, back to running over civilians in Mafia II 

lol

[markav]

I must say this looks right up my street

[citatscEellE]

Youu can play as the Taliban?
Woah, thats awesomeee!
if theres 2 sides to every story, id like to play as them. See what theyre seeing, experiencing etc etc.
jussayin'

[GamerMan316]

Medal of Honor must sell 'at least three million copies' for sequel consideration



EA's upcoming Medal of Honor is a risky proposition for the company. Unlike Activision's Modern Warfare series, Danger Close's game is based upon a real-life conflict. With battles ongoing in the Middle East, MOH has rightfully attracted its fair share of controversy -- some are eager to say that the game is simply going too far.

The military advisors EA has hired have the difficult job of "selling authenticity and realism" while making sure "it didn't go too far." Originally titled Medal of Honor: Anaconda, the game's pitch was essentially "Black Hawk Down for Afghanistan." It would be based on a failed operation called Anaconda, where a Navy SEAL was dragged to his death by Al Qaeda fighters. One consultant told the New York TImes that the original concept "hit a little too close to home" and would "put a sour taste in our brothers' mouths."

Medal of Honor has evolved over its development, with a new found focus on "telling the soldier's story." One designer told the NYT that, differing from Infinity Ward's approach to the genre, "we want the player to feel, not like they're in a movie, but like they're in Afghanistan." Funding such an ambitious goal is certainly not cheap, with executive producer Greg Goodrich telling the newspaper that "if the game doesn't sell at least three million copies, I'm not going to be able to do another one."

Certainly, the stakes are high for EA, attempting to capitalize on the success of its competitor's flagship franchise. But will Medal of Honor's approach resonate with gamers? We'll find out in one month's time.

[nCogNeato]

Controvery aside, I empathize to those that lose loved ones in combat.

With that said, it's a free market, which means the consumer should be the one to dictate if they want something or not.

Make the game available to anyone (of age) that wishes to buy it.  If people are offended by it, they simply don't buy it.  If enough people are offended by it and enough sales are lost, then EA made a bad "business" call.  It's that simple.

The world needs to put on it's big girl panties and grow the f*** up.

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The world needs to put on it's big girl panties and grow the f*** up.

hoo raaa!

[GamerMan316]

MOH "not about the Taliban or Al-Qaeda"

Greg Goodrich has told Eurogamer that the new Medal of Honor uses the Afghanistan war, Taliban insurgents and Al-Qaeda because that's where the game's stars, the Tier One Operators, were deployed.

"The story that we wanted to tell was about these guys in this initial fight, and the individuals that we hooked up with happened to be doing it there," the game's executive producer explained in an interview published today.

"It's an historical fiction inspired by these guys in an historical event, like Saving Private Ryan... That's where they were."

Speaking in light of the recent controversy surrounding MOH's playable Taliban soldiers, Goodrich said the game may be set in Afghanistan but the story it tells is designed to honour Coalition forces, not to exploit them.

"Games are the medium of our time. You and me - this is our medium and how we tell our stories.

"I think a large majority of the individuals who are currently talking about it [negatively] in that way don't understand that this is our best way of being able to honour a group of individuals, to tell a story, to shine a light on a community of warriors that need to be honoured," he explained.

"This game is not about the Taliban, it's not about Al-Qaeda, it's not about the Chechen or Uzebek fighters. It's not the Afghan war. It's about a group of individuals going through an event and us paying tribute to that."

Last night EA CEO John Riccitiello waded into the debate, blaming the media for the furore surrounding the game.

"The controversy... kind of caught me by surprise," he said at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in California.

"No-one noticed" the option to play as a Taliban soldier in multiplayer "until a journalist decided to put the game box in front of a mom who'd lost her son in Afghanistan to create some controversy," he insisted.

"I think that says more about the newspapers than it does the game industry. Having said that we're incredibly sensitive to the challenges that a non-gamer who doesn't really understand what I've just described might imagine when a journalist who also doesn't understand a game describes it to her. It tends to excite a little bit of angst."

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"No-one noticed" the option to play as a Taliban soldier in multiplayer "until a journalist decided to put the game box in front of a mom who'd lost her son in Afghanistan to create some controversy," he insisted.

"I think that says more about the newspapers than it does the game industry. Having said that we're incredibly sensitive to the challenges that a non-gamer who doesn't really understand what I've just described might imagine when a journalist who also doesn't understand a game describes it to her. It tends to excite a little bit of angst."

wow, what a nob-head reporter