MW3 Banned in the UK ?

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FURIOUS Brits have called for a ban on an ultra-violent computer game featuring 7/7- style bomb attacks.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 shows a blast on the Tube with chilling echoes of the 2005 London horror.


A trailer of game footage released yesterday also depicts a gun battle near Big Ben, and players will also see a dirty bomb attack on Parliament.


Last night victims of the 7/7 attacks, which killed 52 innocent people, called for MPs to ban the game, due to hit shops in November.


Sean Cassidy, whose son Ciaran, 22, died in the Piccadilly Line blast, raged: “This is insensitive. What happened shouldn’t be used as entertainment. This brings back bad memories for everybody, not just victims but people who travel on the Tube every day.”


Lucy Cope from anti- violence group Mothers Against Guns added: “This is horrendous, especially when London is on red alert. David Cameron should ban it from the shelves.”


And Labour MP Keith Vaz said: “I am appalled. The exploding Tube carriages are likely to cause distress. We should consider a ban.”


But makers Activision defended the game, which also shows a 9/11-style air attack on New York’s skyscrapers.

A spokesman said: “The scenes are entirely fictional and not intended to recreate any historical events.”
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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/vie...r-attack-game/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uty-game-recreates-7-7-Tube-bomb-attacks.html
 
Same goes for WW1 and WW2 games i guess? Oh no, wait, too late, they've already been out.
 
Well done, now the game will be even more popular than it was going to be, thanks to the calls for banning it.
 
The trailer actually shows a van running the train off the tracks in a firefight, nothing like the 7/7 bombings.

Can't say i care if they ban it though, would actually find it quite funny - although would be a bad turn for gaming as a whole, so despite my dislike for CoD/activision, I'd proably be reluctant for them to ban it afterall.
 
Even if they ban it in shops people will just go and buy it online. All this does is give activision free advertising...pointless.
 
Well if the trend of this series continues, they might actually be doing the PC gaming community a favour.

But yeah, they have the total wrong end of the stick here.
 
Token nutjob in Daily Mail comments said:
Stop playing games and wake up. You are being deceived. Everything you know of is a deception. Conduct some research, start looking at historic events, the food & drink you consume (and more importantly what is in it!). Good luck.
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:confused::o
 
Chances are the mothers complaining let there 11 year old kid play these games despite the fact they are often rated 18+ anyway.

Violence in video games is no more harmful that the crap seen on TV on a daily basis. The difference is they have no one to blame for whats on TV!!
 
scorza said:
It's always Mothers against something :mad:
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That group (Mothers Against Guns) is well know by the Airsoft community, they spout utter rubbish and widely inaccurate claims that they obviously haven't researched.

Either way if they were going to ban one of the COD games it would have been MW2 with the Airport shootings.
 
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If they didn't do anything about encouraging players shoot civilians in an airport, I highly doubt they'll do anything about this
 
Speed said:
Either way if they were going to ban one of the COD games it would have been MW2 with the Airport shootings.
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they also wanted the latest medal of honour game banned because it allowed you to play as insurgents against british troops in afghanistan.

It never happened.
 
I think we should ban real life because it features violence, rape, drug abuse, paedophilia, murder, sex, alcohilism... etc.

:p:p:p:p
 
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