Russian Media Suggests Modern Warfare 2 Trained Terrorists
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Exactly what I was thinking. We've been upgraded from Murder simulators to Terrorism ones.Daemascus said:
By the end of the year, we should be up to Genocide which places us perfectly to take the blame should the world end in 2012! We win at being blamed!
When I first heard this story I said this to my friend as a joke.
Didn't think anyone was dumb enough to acctually think it...
Didn't think anyone was dumb enough to acctually think it...
and the car accident on the A180 motorway this morning was clearly a product of Need for Speed
i know the article says that they have only implied that they're blaming the game
but come on. Idiots can't ACTUALLY think this can they?
it must be some sort of comfort thing, having something to bame
i know the article says that they have only implied that they're blaming the game
but come on. Idiots can't ACTUALLY think this can they?
it must be some sort of comfort thing, having something to bame
The game may have been used to get the terrorists in question into the correct mindset, or given them ideas (ie, to attack an airport). However so many forms of media can do that. Can anyone who has played Flight Simulator honestly say that they have never gotten bored and crashed a plane into "insert famous landmark here" just for the hell of it. I'm pretty sure the designers didn't have that in mind when they made the game. As for all the action/war films out there, surely they must give terrorists ideas.
By blaming a game/movie/book/song we are ultimately losing focus on the true culprit, which is the person who actually made the conscious decision to commit the crime. The media would be better blaming whatever organisation actually committed the attack. I'm going to take an absolute stab in the dark and guess that it WASN'T Infinity Ward or Activision.
By blaming a game/movie/book/song we are ultimately losing focus on the true culprit, which is the person who actually made the conscious decision to commit the crime. The media would be better blaming whatever organisation actually committed the attack. I'm going to take an absolute stab in the dark and guess that it WASN'T Infinity Ward or Activision.
So true. Thats why I'm training to be a surgeon by playing Trauma Center. Also in case of a zombie apocalypse I'm playing Left 4 Dead so I know how to work with others and Dead Rising just in case I'm alone.
Wouldn't terrorists actually practice whatever they're going to do in a live setting? Sitting on one's ass playing video games seems counter productive, especially in a highly unrealistic simulated environment with regenerating health and the like. Just saying...
Is Walid Phares' lawyer Jack Thompson or just his drinking buddy?
I'm pretty sure the player is warned before starting the single player campaign and skip the mission in advance. Heck you can spend the mission majority of the mission visiting the shops and doing anything BUT shooting. Besides the level was removed from Russian versions of the game.
I'm pretty sure the player is warned before starting the single player campaign and skip the mission in advance. Heck you can spend the mission majority of the mission visiting the shops and doing anything BUT shooting. Besides the level was removed from Russian versions of the game.
Training using MW2?
Anyone who's actually played the game will agree putting what works in Call of Duty into practice in real world combat will get you killed. Quickly.
Anyone who's actually played the game will agree putting what works in Call of Duty into practice in real world combat will get you killed. Quickly.
Show me a group of terrorists than ran around with scoped, bolt-action hunting rifles and scored kills on people by glancing down the sights for a millisecond, and your accusations will hold water. Until then... no.
EDIT: I blame Diehard 2.
EDIT: I blame Diehard 2.