Kratos says: "Jesus nonexistent Christ"

Don't you play as the Taliban, or something similar in multiplayer matches in COD4 and MW2?

Why weren't those games called to be banned? Well 2 was, but that was because of the airport thing.

Liam Fox is such a good name for someone who is proposing such a dumb thing.

Although with phrases such as "Un-British game" its kind of hard to be surprised about this. Such a waste of a name.

Oh wow this is stupid...

Screw you government... you don't have any idea what's going on.

Somehow I saw this coming. Leave it to the brits to jump on a bandwagon created by America. No matter how ignorant of a bandwagon that may be. You know, if I knew that guy's e-mail address, I'd just send him two words: Counter Strike

What the actual hell? "Un-British"? "ban this tasteless product"?

Kindly go fuck yourself, Liam Fox.

Well of course he's disgusted by it, because the moron hasn't looked into it more than: "OH NOEZ, TALIBAN!1!".

I'm sick of these fucking idiots.

At the hands of the Taliban, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands

So what exactly does the UK military do to people? Tickle them into submission?

This is just silly. Like that spokesperson for EA said, someone has to play the bad guys in a game("bad" is a matter of opinion anyway). In counter-strike people have been able to play the terrorists for years. When I play multiplayer, I don't really pay much attention about what I am, I just play.

"At the hands of the Taliban, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands,"

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And the soldiers on the other side haven't killed any fathers/husbands? That's some serious bullshit.

whaleswiththumbs:

At the hands of the Taliban, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands

So what exactly does the UK military do to people? Tickle them into submission?

I hate ninja's <.>

Woodsey:
Well of course he's disgusted by it, because the moron hasn't looked into it more than: "OH NOEZ, TALIBAN!1!".

I'm sick of these fucking idiots.

You and me both, man. You and me both.

Is it just me, but doesn't he like give orders to kill people, and hes complaining about virtual people being killed?

What the spokesperson said reflects my views.

FargoDog:
An 'un-British game'? What is with this country and all the stupid, washed up patriotism? What exactly makes it so 'un-British'? What are these mystical values Dice and EA don't hold that the UK clearly does?

A love of salt and vinegar crisps?

Irridium:
Don't you play as the Taliban, or something similar in multiplayer matches in COD4 and MW2?

Why weren't those games called to be banned? Well 2 was, but that was because of the airport thing.

My thoughts exactly. Perhaps this time it's such a big deal because Modern Warfare takes that whole route of keeping the locations and the insurgents themselves relatively un-named.

No one ever cares for the Russians.

GamesB2:
Oh wow this is stupid...

Screw you government... you don't have any idea what's going on.

I'd argue that the Minister of Defence has more of an idea about what's going on in Afghanistan, and the effect that's having on British soldiers and their families than EA, a foreign videogames publisher, does.

Doesn't a Defense Secretary have more important things to do?

No big deal, a friend of mine tried the beta, the game is crap anyway.

Wow, not only is this guy having a knee jerk reaction, he's also got a mindset that would be right at home in the 50's. Earth to Fox: Not every soldier is a young man with a wife and kids. Nor are British and American casualties somehow more meaningful than any other death in this war.

Someone ban this guy from Parliament instead. He's just appealing to the same crowd that opposes the "Mosque at Ground Zero", except more British.

Irridium:
Don't you play as the Taliban, or something similar in multiplayer matches in COD4 and MW2?

Why weren't those games called to be banned? Well 2 was, but that was because of the airport thing.

Because they used fictional terrorist groups, and there not the only ones pretty much every game set in modern times and dealing with terrorists has to make up a fictional group thats exactly like the Taliban. Apparently as long as you play as fictional terrorist groups its fine but as soon as there's a real one everyone gets upset.

Jamash:

GamesB2:
Oh wow this is stupid...

Screw you government... you don't have any idea what's going on.

I'd argue that the Minister of Defence has more of an idea about what's going on in Afghanistan, and the effect that's having on British soldiers and their families than EA, an foreign games publisher, does.

EA is American...

if you do not like it, don't buy it. don't try to dictate YOUR views on others. It's not as if the game is saying, "hey, you should join the taliban IRL". they arent praising the taliban, they're merely making it realistic by including real factions from a real war.

Un-British? Trust a Tory toff to say something like that.
Kindly shut up about things you know nothing about and never will do.

This is stupid, the Nazis committed far more atrocities than the Taliban have, yet it's been fine to play as them in the multiplayer modes of previous Call of duty games.

There have been games that allowed you to do this before and no one cared AS much so I do not see a problem with the game, also It's about Americans not the British.

I say that only because my Gov't would not care about a game that involved British soldiers in A modern day war (I.E. Call of Duty's SAS)

How is this anymore wrong then being able to play as US soldiers in Vietnam War games? Thousands of children lost fathers and wives lost husbands at the hands of the invading US soldiers there. Hell, hundreds of children have lost fathers to U.S and British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am in no way in support of the Taliban and their actions (nor am I of the U.S invasion) but if a war game is going to be based on a real war then you have to accept that it is going to touch on some sensitive issues, especially when the morality of the situation is so completely in the grey area.

"un-British"

Lol I find this word hilarious. I guess I'm just used to hearing "un-American", and "un-British" is like its weaker cousin.

Woodsey:

Jamash:

GamesB2:
Oh wow this is stupid...

Screw you government... you don't have any idea what's going on.

I'd argue that the Minister of Defence has more of an idea about what's going on in Afghanistan, and the effect that's having on British soldiers and their families than EA, an foreign games publisher, does.

EA is American...

So they're foreign to Britain, yeah.

I'm a patriot and a supporter of our troops out in Afghanistan, but as a gamer and general person with half a brain I can safely say this is just a game.

If you want to ban this game because you can play as the Taliban and kill members of the Coalition we may as well ban every single game ever that lets you fight against the British.

Also don't give us bull about it being a current conflict so we shouldn't make games about it, I think it's better to bring current conflicts to the fore, why should we live in the past, remind people that these conflicts rage on today and have consequences.

Last time I checked America was not part of the UK.