COD: Modern Warfare 2 – buy it and you’ll want to shoot people?
Now I’ve been a gamer for more years than I care to recount so whenever I see a news story claiming that playing violent games will somehow turn me into the next Ted Bundy it makes me a little annoyed. I’m 34 now, blatantly old enough for pretty much anything, except slippers – not sure I’ll ever be ready for those, so why can’t I make an informed decision as to how I entertain myself? I’ve never seen any game as a ‘Murder Simulator’. Mortal Kombat had its fair share of blood and for those who could pull of fatalities it was more of a chuckle than anything else; Kitana’s kiss of death fatality has never put me off girls…
Then you have things like Postal, Loaded, any GTA, Soldier of Fortune, Manhunt, GOW heck even original Doom allowed for blood and guts, the list is endless but none of them made me want to take to the streets with an array of weaponry. Which is why it surprises me when a big title is being released the ‘Is violent video gaming a knockback to our whole society?’ discussion starts all over again! Halo 3 sold 8.1 million, GOW and GOW 2 a collective of 10 million sales Metal Gear Solid 4 – 4.5 million, GTA 4 almost 7 million and with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 already flying off the shelves (approx 3 million pre orders alone) do the government really think developers are pushing players over the edge?
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