Let's ban Taliban game
 

http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/ne...ban_video_game

He's forgetting one important factor,

that people could play as the British forces too.

Let me rephrase what he said from the British forces side in MOH(no offence to British people just trying to make a point that a game is a game and should not be brought into politics or politicized)




Gamers are apparently instructed to stop the Taliban "at all costs", and receive points for every taliban they kill.

Dr xoF said: "It's shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the British Forces. At the hands of the British Forces, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands.


And the Taliban would now ban this game too!




Tuuuuuupid is what stupid does.

I agree 100%. In my opinion, allowing you to play as the Taliban as well as the British shows neutrality on the part of the game producers, and frankly, more open mindedness than this 'Dr'.
Games are for fun, what they have done is remove all doubt that their game is in anyway a piece of propoganda. I think they have actually de-politicised their game by doing this. Good for them.

Fair's fair and all that.

I don't know about boycotting and whatnot, but it does seem to me that making a game when you can play as a faction such as the Taliban at this time does strike me as poor marketing decision. Maybe a better idea in 10 or 15 years, but now is too close to a lot of people's hearts.

There's plenty of games out there that have taken the basic layout from the 'war on terror', the faction just isn't called "taliban", but 'insurgents' or 'x' rebels.

Big deal, it's a game.


Didn't we have something similar about Battlefield 2, year or so ago? :shifty:

:yep: and in the BF1942 mod pack as well IIRC with the Iraqi campaign.

I'm not saying that it is unacceptable; just that it is probably not a good idea now. Could you imagine a Vietnam video game being released in 1975?

No my IBM 5100 portable wouldn't run it due to an error in the basic compiler.:O:

http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/wp-...e-computer.jpg

Seriously though the difference here is that in the 20 years of the wars in Vietnam, computer games were not really part of popular culture until the last couple of years of the conflict. This war has been going for 9 years and computer games have been there all the way through. Opportunity + time = product.

Ow hell no! Who'd buy a game with the graphics of that era?! Was there even home gaming systems back then? :doh: :O:

EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlMe9ai5jCA

:O: You guys know what I meant.

Yeah Tak but we can't help ourselves can we?:O:

You Sir must be bloody rich to afford one of those devil machine :DL

:haha: That's what I like about SubSim.

Depends. Did it include jelly wrestling? :hmmm:

Sssshh I've been wanting an Israeli-Hizbollah ArmA 2 expansion.

I hope peace would work its way out so that I can get my game :O:

Project Reality has had both the Taliban and HAMAS as playable factions, complete with suicide bomber cars and trucks, for quite a while now. Nothing new under the sun.