Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
Let's re-establish what we are doing here.
There is controversy, over whether grown men (Since that is who should be playing it; if you are worried about your poor little Timmy being corrupted by all this terrisums then DON'T BUY IT) should "shoot" completely imaginary "civilians".
So basically, it's OK to fire little polygons at one group of moving polygons, but not at other groups of polygons, because the second group cannot fire those little polygons back at "you".
Bwuh?
Seriously though, this a ridiculous controversy. If you are OK with killing terrorists in a video game, or slaughtering inhabitants of a city (Who are just numbers btw), Total War style, then there is no logical, or moral reason why you should be opposed to the "death" of entirely fictional civilians in an entirely fictional terrorist attack. Period.
well, this would make sense if it was a game from 1995 with 2-D graphics. however, now it is realistic, and even on crappy TV's it is still too close to real life to be so disconnected with it.

and lets be realistic here: the majority of gamers, even if the game is rated M (more than half my games are, and I possess no games under T besides Kirby and some Wii games) are between the ages of 10-18.

hell, i played M rated games at age 8. any non-uber-conservative parent doesnt care about rating. I played God of War 1 and 2 at release! I was 10 when I played God of War 1. despite the sex and nudity and gore.

ratings dont matter.



im not saying at all that this will screw people up, but im saying that im not sure if i would let a 12 year old play this select mission.