Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2

eldavojohn writes "You may recall much ado over some questionable footage in the latest Call of Duty game. Well, that footage has led to a recall of Modern Warfare 2 in Russia. Seems the Russian government was none too happy about the portrayal of Russia in the game and decided to yank it from stores. Infinity Ward has responded with a patch that removes the 'No Russian' mission (the content in question) from the storyline. Before you overly criticize the Russian government, there may be some truth to the claim that the game's story line overly demonizes Russians as just terrorists as the Russian site GotPS3.ru alleges. Is cultural sensitivity becoming an overly played card in the gaming world? Not too long ago, Wolfenstein was recalled in Germany for containing Nazi symbols."

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Wolfenstein and the "Occult"

[Jeremy Erwin]

In Raiders, Major Eaton claims that

for the last two years the Nazis have had teams of archeologists running around the world looking for all sorts of religious artifacts. Hitler's gone nuts on the subject. He's crazy. He's obsessed with the occult. And right now, apparently, there is some kind of German archeological dig going on in the desert outside Cairo.

But how true is this claim? Is this perception simply a failure to grapple with the fact that Hitler was not insane, he was not possessed by demons, and simply made a cold blooded choice to slaughter millions?

Wolfenstein encourages the player to think of Nazis as creatures of myth and masters of the dark arts, rather than as ordinary criminals, capable of making ethical decisions and thus fully culpable for their actions.

Re:Sad

[RiotingPacifist]

Trying and stop people seeing a statement saying that image matters, because it's "offensive"* to Americans, guess your irony meter is off this year slashdot.

*As i can't trust mods to not be retards I'll point out the "offensive" statement was meant to be an example of a perceived image.