Russians wage war on Modern Warfare 2

by Sylvie Barak on 17 November 2009, 11:55

Tags: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3), Activision (NASDAQ:ATVI), FPS

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*Update: Despite wide ranging reports the game was banned in Russia, Activision strongly denies the claim and released the following statement: "Reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been banned in Russia are erroneous. Activision only released a PC version of the game in Russia which went on sale on Tuesday, Nov. 10." *

It seems Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has struck something of a bad chord with the Kremlin owing to its contentious Russian airport massacre level, "No Russian."

It has been widely reported that the level created such anger amongst Russian gamers and politicians that the country decided to pull all copies of the game off shelves, effectively banning it.

The disgruntled Ruskies have kicked up such a fussky that Infinity Ward has even had to release an official patch which guts the mission from the game entirely. The game developer says it will also release a censored version of the game within a month, minus the offending level.

But that may still not be enough for Russia to reconsider its veto of the game, which is entirely based around a bloody battle between US and Soviet forces - in which Russians are depicted as evil terrorists who invade the US, and erect offensive statues. yes, offensive statues. Shocking stuff.

Russian gamers have complained bitterly on forums that the game unfairly demonises the entire nation simply to gratify America's simplistic and geopolitically challenged youth culture.  

Although if Russia thinks it got the short end of the political sensitivity gaming stick, it might want to go and have a little chat with Germany, which has been on the unpleasant receiving end for years.

All's fair in love and video war games, apparently.



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Reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been banned in Russia are erroneous
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/6588218/Call-Of-Duty-Modern-Warfare-2-not-banned-in-Russia-says-Activision.html
im russian and i dont particularly care what lelvels are in it just one thing

why does american games always have russians as bad guys? could they not think off anything better? i mean there are few acceptions ie red alert but seriously?
Georgy291
im russian and i dont particularly care what lelvels are in it just one thing

why does american games always have russians as bad guys? could they not think off anything better? i mean there are few acceptions ie red alert but seriously?

its the obvious choice really… who else has the nuclear stockpiles that could stand up to americas?

if your storyline includes modern warefare with nuclear attacks then its the obvious choice…
Georgy291
im russian and i dont particularly care what lelvels are in it just one thing

why does american games always have russians as bad guys? could they not think off anything better? i mean there are few acceptions ie red alert but seriously?

Does it matter? Quite often in American fiction media a main protagonist will be English. I actually can't remember the last time I played a game where the bad guys were Russian. Who would you prefer the bad guys to be? They're obviously going to be considered the most “effective” bad guys by resonating most with the minds of the ones developing the games.
The storyline in MW2 is frankly rediculous.

Spoiler alert:

To go from airport massacre to full scale invasion of America is completely unrealistic. As if the Russian government would do this. What would've been more interesting would've been a more personal story of localised warfare, maybe a nuke sourced from pakistan (which is a real concern right now) and a story centred around ex-soviet states hitting Russia. That could be deveolped into a nice unconventional plot with characters to relate too.