Modern Warfare 2 Censored in Japan, Germany

i killed as many as i could... for the same reason in kill any granny i stumble upon on GTA they are a bunch of pixels with in most cases really bad AI... i dont know where is that "moral choice" you speak of... to kill or not to kill programing objects... of course its the same as picking a machine gun and running down a shopping-mall...

It's a frick'n video game. People get upset over the stupidest crap.

how many reported shootings in the world is caused by the influence of video games? Graphic shooting games have been around since the 80's... so we know something.

It shocked Me a bit,but Im a big sissy.
Its rare a video game evokes much emotion in Me so In a way it worked.I didnt shoot um up..well, I shot a few 2nd time through

a response to N19h7M4re who said:
i killed as many as i could... for the same reason in kill any granny i stumble upon on GTA they are a bunch of pixels with in most cases really bad AI... i dont know where is that "moral choice" you speak of... to kill or not to kill programing objects... of course its the same as picking a machine gun and running down a shopping-mall...


The characters in the game, though they may only be programming objects, do represent people. Games attempt to immerse people in an alternate reality and the programmers do a pretty good job. When I play a game, I'm not thinking about manipulating human interface devices to change the parameters of these objects, I'm thinking, "shoot the bad guys." I didn't kill the civilians because of what they represent, despite the fact that they are created in code.

It's a GAME , if I'm told to shoot somebody , I'm going to in game.

It's a fictional world... that's like censoring a book for being offensive or some crap. Don't like it don't buy it.

Of all people, the Japanese are getting "offended" about morality? Either two things can occur.

1. They are upset you can use a WW2 plane to blow up the crowd.
2. You can't go up to the crowd AI and commit sensual acts.

Oh the mysterious ways of the Japanese.

I kept shooting Makarov and his men, but the game kept ending. Stupid story. If I was the operative I would have wasted Makarov and his men, and then none of the Russian invasion would have happened.

I don't get it; lolicon is perfectly okay but this is censored in Japan...

I just caved in today and picked the game up used for the X-Box 360. I swore left and right I wasn't going to shoot just to be the one cool guy to say I honestly didn't. I didn't have any idea that "No Russian" was the third mission you play and because the first two missions pumped me up so great I was all exited and just came out of the elevator trying to bunny hop and was the first to pull the trigger at the security guard.

Does this mean I need to see a counselor? I had good intentions before hand but that mission is put right when the excitement begins for Modern Warfare 2 and I almost peed myself in excitement to shoot the civilians.

The thing to admire about both the Germans and the Japanese; is that they as a nation have fully accepted the lessons of their militaristic past. Both nations have a military purely for defensive reasons, and both are extremely wary of right-wing fascism. Their moral position is not a sign of hypocrisy but a genuine deep-rooted concern that the errors of the past should not be repeated again. These are now two of the most pacifistic nations on Earth.

I played through the level and killed as many as I could. It's just a game, it's NOT REAL. I don't know about anyone else, but I have no trouble drawing the line between video games and reality. I enjoy playing the story the way it was designed, no matter what the content. It has no affect on me, and certainly does not change the way I act in real life(based off murdering pixels)

I kill tetris blocks when I make a complete row. Am I immoral?

I agree with you dude .





yeah yeah blah blah bs bs, you ever surf porn before ? 70% of japanese web porn is faked up "rape" porn .. and these guys are gonna take the moral high road with video gaming .. just ridiculous LOL..

its ok to fantasize about raping girls ... but not ok to shoot pixels in a game world .. give me a break .

So, why not kill 1000 people in the streets? They're a bunch of living cells with useless lives anyways...

I'm not offended by the mission, but I was a bit shocked at first. Although it's a game, I don't find it quite fun to kill inoccent people who aren't even trying to kill me. Just my opinion though.

It didn't even phase me, I had no idea that was the level that was explicit. I had fun anyway.

Well some correct me if I am wrong but their are a great deal of revisionist history buffs in Japan. They hardly mention their militaristic past. Nothing is mentioned about the rape of Nanking nor the Bataan death march. While the Japanese government has apologized for its roll in WW2 it is hardly satisfactory to many Chinese, Americans and Filipinos who suffered under Japanese occupation. Most of those responsible for the worst attrocities under the Japanese were never brought to justice.

OMG, its so stupid.. I KILLED 10 PPL playing MW2 or I FRAGGED 10 PPL playing MW2, It doesn't mean i have lust for blood and i need to kill, it's a game and while some are taking it to seriously, it's still a GAME, something that should ENTERTAIN, not hurt.
My theory is, it's parents fault that they don't teach children the difference between M-rated titles and those that are meant to be for them. It's because what games LOOKED like, not what was thair purpose. Same is with drinking and any other stuff you can do at age of 16/17/18/21.. While at 17 i can go join army and KILL REAL PEOPLE, i can't have beer.. at least in US... for the love of God, use common sense, unfortunately some people appear to have none..

I thought it was dumb but I still played through it. Totally unnecessary, and IW was stupid for not thinking this would happen.

I kill in Unreal Tournament. I kill in Rainbow Six. I kill in Doom. I kill in any game I can get my hands on. I don't kill in the real world except maybe mosquitos. However......I work with juveniles with psychiatric disorders.....some of them don't have a firm grasp of game vs reality. Some of them have actually acted out what they played on Grand Theft Auto. As a gamer....I love to shoot em up! As someone who works with youth with psych problems..... I can see games turned to real world problems. My opinion on the level......well it depends on who buys the game.

that level is really easy. kind of pointless. i guess its suppose to show how "evil" that russian bro is.. i still lit them up though.

I was a little shocked by the level, and at the very start of it I wasn't sure what I was going to have to do. But let's keep it real, it's a video game and if you don't want any violence in a game, stick to board games or go for a bike ride. I am a little surprised the Germans censored it; not that surprised about the Japanese (have you seen their porno?)

Personally, I believe that this is all a load of shit.
1) It's a game.
2) It's a game.
3) It's a GAME.
4) Who gives a shit? Apparently Japanese and Germans.

Now, people may think that the whole 'violent video game' thing spurs people to kill. It really doesn't, and people just refuse to let go of old hypes, much as people today still don't realize that you don't download an attachment from any piece of junk mail, or believe that cellphones give you cancer. It's ridiculous, and it really needs to stop.

There's nothing noble about being a pacifist. A pacifist is a slacker that relies on others to do what they refuse to do for themselves. Banning or censoring a video game is senseless and pointless and purely symbolic. incompetent, petty, impotent governments eagerly anticipate the opportunity for such nonsense because that is all they are capable of.

Same thing as watching a Rated R (War) movie, whats all the fuss about??

I stood there thinking WTF......and then got the gist of the mission and walked along with them, really annoying...had to walk slowly for the whole mission.

"right-wing fascism", as opposed to left-wing fascism...sigh...is that like right-wing communism. I love these socio-politicos on tech web-side. Fascism, like "Nazism" are forms of centralized government, hence LEFT-WING, hence socialist/communist. Please do stay on topic, or you end up sounding like a fool. And historically, pacifist societies have gone the way of the dodo bird.

So we can watch movies that kill and torture innocent people, but we can't play in one? That is dumb.

It is just a game. I don't see why this is an issue at all.

Thanks to Movies and Television we have upped the ante of heinous acts of violence and murder like this nation and the world has never seen. Who doesn't think killers get ideas from watching horror flicks? We all think of someone truly evil and how we would kill them and the thoughts that pass through our heads are mostly images in which we grasped from Hollywood, not a video game.

Not to mention there are countless movies and tv shows which practically TEACH you how to murder someone properly and avoid getting caught.

So what is your position on this matter? Do you think it's a big deal or not?