Modern Warfare 2 sanitized for Russia
If you live in Russia, and want an original version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, you may be out of luck for awhile. The console versions of the game have been pulled from retails shelves as an official rejection of the “No Russian” mission in the game. If you are a regular Crispy Gamer reader than you have probably read some of our discussions of that mission (See our Modern Warfare 2 review, this blog post about playing it, another blog post about a segment on Fox & Friends and how the No Russian Mission is a failure). The objection is to a terrorist act, where the player takes part in a mission in an airport as an undercover agent secretly involved in a Russian-lead massacre of innocent civilians. Russian citizens and politicians don’t like the way the game depicts its soldiers in this Red Dawn style storyline and have donw something about it.
Further, the PC version of the game has been sanitized of the No Russian mission, so if you didn’t get the game before all this blowback you won’t have a chance to experience the mission for yourself. While people and governments certainly have a right to object to a game’s content, this hardcore approach seems a little rigid to me; couldn’t people object to the game’s content by simply not buying it?
According to published reports, these new console versions of the game will be released in less than a month, contingent on government approval.
Source: GotPS3.ru via Hellforge
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Category Action, Genres, Industry, Other, PC, Platforms, PlayStation 3, Politics, Xbox 360 | Tags: Call of Duty,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,Censorship,Consoles,Government,Modern Warfare 2,No Russian,Russia,Steam
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Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 console is spiffy
A limited-edition Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 console has been announced, offering a special Modern Warfare 2 paint job, the game, and a 250 GB hard drive. Methinks that Microsoft thinks that Modern Warfare is going to be a huge game for the platform. I won’t argue with them on this fact. The most interesting thing about this bundle is that it offers the largest hard drive for the Xbox 360 to date, and according to a report on Game | Life, this hard drive will not be sold separately - at least for now.
No doubt at some point Microsoft will want to sell that hard drive separately so that consumers (read: everyone that already owns an Xbox 360) will go out and upgrade.
Source: Game | Life
Glue Mobile secures top Activision titles
Glu Mobile announced plans to release a Modern Warfare 2 mobile game, published as part of the company’s expanded partnership with Activision Publishing, . The mobile title will be available in Q4 2009 and will be published worldwide for carriers and application stores that support Android, Blackberry, BREW, J2ME and Windows Mobile.
Glu did not disclose much about the game, save that they love Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 and will build upon what it delivers later this year.
The company also announced plans to release some other high profile Activision-related mobile games later this year. Games in the works for various mobile platforms include Crash Mutant Island (Q3 2009) Blur, Guitar Hero 5 and Tony Hawk: RIDE - available in Q4 2009. The titles will be published worldwide for carriers and application stores that support Android, Blackberry, BREW, J2ME and Windows Mobile.
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Category Action, Genres, Mobile, Music, Platforms, Racing, Sports | Tags: Activision,Blur,Crash Mutant Island,Glu Mobile,Guitar Hero 5,Modern Warfare 2,Tony Hawk: RIDE
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