I’m not sure whether it was when I was asked to dress as a solider Monday night and Tuesday day or when I saw the parade march past our shop window, which was filled with posters full of a modern solider walking through a desert and others with various bits of army symbols and pictures, that I started to feel uneasy.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released today. It’s a huge new release. We’ve had a charity raffle to win it going on, we’ve had posters up for months, a delivery of almost a thousand games, and huge interest in it. There’s been price wars, we had huge queues at the midnight launch last night, and there’s no doubt it’s a huge enormous game that thousands of people really want.
And I have no real problem with it, or games of its ilk. If you want to spend your evenings playing that you’re in a war, then carry on. I can’t understand why you’d want to, but if you do then it’s not my place to say anything.
I just wish, wish, WISH that Activision had thought more about the release date. Maybe it’s just me being overly sensitive, but releasing a war game the day before remembrance day seems a bit…sick.
3 Comments
November 11, 2009 at 12:28 am
Eeek.
But commercially, it’s brilliant, because people will make sure to buy it so that they can play it on their day off.
Which happens to be Remembrance Day.
Uh-oh.
(By the way, too little known fact while we’re all over ourselves celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: November 9 is also the anniversary of Crystal Night.)
November 15, 2009 at 6:22 pm
C – Days off for Remembrance Day? We just have a two minute silence.
It’s wrong, and Activision shouldn’t have done it. Some of the game levels are really sad too – there’s one where you play as an undercover CIA agent with bad Russian people. They take you to an airport and start shooting innocent people. You have to do the same to keep undercover. At the end of the level, they reveal they knew you were a spy all along and shoot you. It’s horrible
November 16, 2009 at 3:36 am
Oh, Remembrance Day is off both in the US and in France… well, that doesn’t really change how sad it is.