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Why The Medal of Honor ‘Controversy’ is Nothing But ‘Overhyped’ BS

September 18, 2010 in Blog comments 8

OXCGN's newest writer from the US has a solid look at the controversy that has risen regarding the ability to play as a member of the Taliban. It's an interesting read actually, showing how many other games before it have had similar, if not the same situation, just not with a name attached to a character.

Slip over, have a read, there's a vid there of the Fox News that aired the whole thing originally, but the writers take is an interesting one.

Recently, there have been stories regarding the upcoming Medal of Honor, and how it’s causing “controversy.” I’m here today to tell you why it’s nothing but pure ‘bullshiite’ and why the media is simply wasting their time.

It all began, who guessed it, on Fox News with the following video. As a result, it’s been getting spread around more and more through a trillion different sites and sources.

The woman who speaks in this video does a terrible job trying to support her dislike of the game.
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  • 1
    Machienzo Sep 18, 10
    Lol. Gold Star Mother? Have they started handing out medals to them now?
  • 1
    Twin_Master Sep 18, 10
    Misinformation just makes people look like even bigger idiots.
  • 2
    XboxOZ360 Sep 18, 10
    It certainly does. And the media love it. a silly, but ironic fact. In France, a newspaper was started that only had good or positive news within its covers. The first edition sold like hot cakes for it was to be one of the first of a new style of news media.

    By the 3rd edition, of which it was only a bi-weekly paper (ie 6 issues), the company pulled the plug on the venture. It seemed that no one wanted 'good news', and stayed away from purchasing the paper like the plauge.

    It seems good new is no news, and bad news is THE news, and any way to enhance, or make that news bigger than it really is, is what SELLS.

    It's why reality TV does so damn well, as everyone wants to see others - fail.

    A Sad, but true fact :-(
    • 0
      DXD Sep 19, 10
      quote XboxOZ360
      It certainly does. And the media love it.
      They also love wasting their resources on ridiculous "issues" when they could be throwing their money at something more important.
  • 2
    ShadowGuard Sep 18, 10
    This should have never been a controversy anyway. It will only help the game in the end.
    • 1
      Gamesta100 Sep 18, 10
      That's the good part about controversy surrounding games.The more contoversy the more people become interested in the game.
  • 2
    BANDITO ATTACK Sep 18, 10
    no shit. they're just riding IW's nuts. IW got free [negative] publicity with the whole 'play a terrorist in an airport' thing in mw2. now these guys are just doing the same shit for the free [negative] publicity.
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      XboxOZ360 Sep 19, 10
      No they aren't. And such eloquent and delicate language you put it in lol.

      So a developer wants to make a game a little less "Americanized" by offering different sides to take, rather than being a totally gung-ho-yah-America-feats, they offer the ability to counter that.

      It would be the same if a game developer offered the gamer the chance to play say an Native American Indian in earlier times, and actually made the character a Souix or Navaho etc. Most 'white' Americans or Europeans would be in an uproar, claiming racial discrimination or something similar.

      The point is, the developer is simply supplying a character that opposes the American dream, and you 'can play if you chose to' - you're not forced to do so.

      The same as in Infinity Wards case in Modern Warfare 2. They gave ppl the option to play a terrorists, and also to NOT actually play an active part in the level to be honest. You could play through it without shooting any civilians. But guess what, 99.99% of gamers DID play it through and used the level to its full advantage.

      Have you checked out the Special Ops: On The Line which is set in Dubai, now as that comes closer to being released, you watch the ruckus come up from the fact that the city, a jewel in the Muslim and Middle Eastern meca is shown off as a town of ruin and war, where players are also playing against terrorists and such like.

      When we had a demo of it at E3, all of us walked out going - whoaaa . .now that's going to cause some stirs . . but then, the developer is simply portraying what life IS like or could be like.

      Games are just that - games designed for entertainment and ideally to have some fun, but most of all, with such genres, to ideally educate some of the complexities of war and turmol.

      They were not the ones that brought the subject up with the media remember, the woman was - for her 15 mins or worldwide fame, by next week, no one will remember what she looked like.

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