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Russian News Links Modern Warfare 2 to Airport Bomb
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Posted by Donster on: 2011-01-26 16:42:41 369
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Game questioned as an influence to recent terrorist attack
By Mike Jackson @ CVG
Russian television channel, Russia Today, has linked Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to yesterday's (Jan. 24th) terrorist bombing of Russian airport Domodedovo in Moscow.
Gamers will remember the controversy surrounding MW2's 'No Russian' level, which has players taking control of an under-cover agent who's forced to join a group of terrorists in an attack on a fictitious Moscow airport in order to maintain their cover. Players are not, however, forced to kill civilians.
"It may have seemed too gruesome and tragic ever to come true," says the report from the government-funded Russia Today. "But far-fetched it is not, for this week's events at Domodedovo International Airport are very real indeed," it adds.
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