Yep, this again from game friendly Fox News part of the Rupert Murdoch Free and Open Club
Now to be fair Fox News actually does much better in taking a neutral opinion to it while are hater does not. This is a strange way of looking at it considering there history from Mass Effect is a porno, to Grand Theft Auto IV is a murder simulator, to MW2 airport shooting is wrong. Fox took this fair and balanced but they probably undid that by intervieweing one person and not having someone from both sides otherwise there's still bias.
I am also glad that neither Ms. Meredith or the Fox News anchor brought up the subject of desensitization to children and did say that people of over 30 are the major players of such games, not children.
Now I'll be honest to Ms. Meredith, my heart goes out to you. You've experienced great tragedy and I have nothing but sympathy for you. I'm sure that having lost no child I can't understand your pain. I understand where your coming from but there are problems with your arguement.
She says that it hurts families who will buy or see this game when really any family who doesn't want to feel that way won't be shelling out the money to play it on releases day.
She doesn't really understand that the cops and robbers angle is weak but correct in that A, someone has to be the bad guy and B, no one is taking up ideaologies or views of the sides, it's just a skin and that they're all the same polygons under that. It's just the luck of the draw some people are playing Taliban and some are soldiers.
She says that World War II games don't count because that was a long, long time ago and it's not about real people. Well for one just like wars of old (like the Civil War) battles of the Gulf and Afghanistan conflicts will be reenacted and that really Medal of Honor is not real, it's based on stories and battles not the people in them, it's fiction. Why was she not here when a book discussing the Iraq War was published or The Hurt Locker was released. Why video games? Because of interactivity? Well I just blew house that down.
And brining up Six Days in Fallujah, as showing that it's possible to shame things into respect and stopping release of products is pathetic. Atomic Games couldn't make that project because it lost it's funds due to Fox News idiocy and that game was actaully all about respect for US soldiers.
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