Glad you posted this Timmay. I bought the game for PC and finished it already - excellent game. I will also qualify my comments by stating I also don't believe the hype that video games encourage violence or terrorism. I've played the GTA series and done my share of needless hit and runs etc. But all of that was mostly cartoonish stuff that until recently didn't have the level of graphical realism we are getting closer and closer to with games like COD-MW2. The difference to me is that with other games, straying from the level's purpose and gameplay is exactly that - going off the beaten path - if you so choose. This airport level provides no goal except to exactly follow the script of mass murder on a scale never seen before - and nothing else. The whole undercover plot in order to 'get in good' with the bad guys is totally stupid and would never fly in the real world. I tried over and over to shoot the bad guys in the back to stop them from killing hundreds of innocent unarmed people, and the game refused to allow that. It forces you to be a mass murderer or don't bother with the level. I'm not concerned about a highly trained CIA agent doing the same thing as much as I am the possible mentally ill losers and end timers that seem to be getting more and more active these days. This will be a straw man argument but what if the level was to graphically rape a woman or a child? Is it still okay because it's just a video game? I think not. There's usually a thread of purpose either neutral or good to most violence in videogames, not only outright wanton evil that this level encourages people to experience 'first person'. Thumbs down on that level, thumbs up to the rest of the admittedly violent game ;)

by dubbleplusgood on 11/23/2009 05:53:34 PM EST