Daily Mail calls for new Call of Duty to be banned

frisbeeface · 07-06-2011 06:08PM

Good blog posts on the article

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2011/05/mails-call-of-duty-fury.html
http://www.minority-thought.com/2011/05/daily-mails-dubious-fury-over-call-of.html

Usual Daily Mail sensationalist rubbish

Paparazzo · 07-06-2011 06:09PM

This game sells way to many copies for a couple if cranks to have it banned. Video game violence is here to stay.

ancapailldorcha · 07-06-2011 06:15PM

How does Holywood get away with it, I wonder?

Also, didn't a lot more people die in World War 2?

entropi · 07-06-2011 06:19PM

Seen Daily Fail in the title, so I'm not gonna bother reading the article, and just dismiss it right away as a one-sided story used to boost their public profile.

Yakult · 07-06-2011 06:21PM

Good publicity for the game.

Overheal · 07-06-2011 06:23PM

I like how the image caption was "SAS running amok in streets of london" as if they were running amok, and not trying to defend against some kind of terrorist attack.

Can't wait for the whiney mothers brigade to step in. I hope we get some outraged MILFs this time.

07-06-2011 06:26PM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

How does Holywood get away with it, I wonder?

Also, didn't a lot more people die in World War 2?

How does Hollywood get away with it? Well, by giving in to the rabble rousers. Wasn't there a scene that was supposed to be in the Spiderman movie cut because he landed on the World Trade Centre? I thought generally the English were a lot more lenient with this kind of thing - I mean the film V for Vendetta did feature an explosion in the Subway, the Old Bailey and Big Ben?

Samba · 07-06-2011 06:29PM

Looks like a marketing ploy tbh - print articles with calls for a ban = $$$$

Mickeroo · 07-06-2011 06:32PM

Hopefully they won't remove the offending level from the game as has happened before to on of the Hitman games iirc. Sure this is the same as the hubub about the airport level in the last game which was a way more disturbing level, all this is doing is showing soldiers and explosions in london, if people took a stance like this in the states nearly every big bugdet action blockbuster would have to be banned.

All they have to do is give these protesters an hour playing Harcore Team Death Match online and they'd soon change their tune

ancapailldorcha · 07-06-2011 06:41PM

Deleted User wrote: »

How does Hollywood get away with it? Well, by giving in to the rabble rousers. Wasn't there a scene that was supposed to be in the Spiderman movie cut because he landed on the World Trade Centre? I thought generally the English were a lot more lenient with this kind of thing - I mean the film V for Vendetta did feature an explosion in the Subway, the Old Bailey and Big Ben?

I didn't know that about Spiderman. It seems unfair that Oliver Stone can use 9/11 to sell cinema tickets but a game has a subway explode in London and a generic rag throws a fit.

UglyBolloxFace · 07-06-2011 06:45PM

This media hype is stupid and is going to have the opposite effect. For example, when I read the OP and saw 'trailer' I immediately jumped to Youtube to check it out. And you know what? I'll be buying it.

So well done Daily Mail, nice bit of free advertising you gave to the games company.

Conor108 · 07-06-2011 07:17PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coiTJbr9m04

Looks lovely! I'll get it

Naikon · 07-06-2011 07:26PM

The hype surrounding Carmageddon back in 97 was something else.

ScumLord · 07-06-2011 07:30PM

Yakult wrote: »

Good publicity for the game.

Video link at the bottom of the article and all, I'd be very surprised if the games company wasn't asked for money to print that article.

Thatnastyboy · 07-06-2011 07:35PM

The Daily Mail can ask the back of my sack.

Karamoja · 07-06-2011 07:45PM

Feckin eejits.

mikemac · 07-06-2011 07:47PM

The Daily Mail getting cursed in the Daily Mail style forum of boards.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 07-06-2011 07:49PM

Thread title should read "slow news day".

Then the thread should be deleted and OP banned for reading the Daily Mail.

Cocaine · 07-06-2011 07:51PM

The Daily Mail is clearly trolling, why do people keep feeding it.

PeterIanStaker · 07-06-2011 08:28PM

The Daily Mail: Because there is an immigrant black Muslim paedopphile under your bed.

Herb Powell · 07-06-2011 08:38PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Don't you ****ing curse at me for **** sake :mad:

lol, I'm sorry Pete, I wasn't really cursing at you, rather the people wanting the game banned

jimthemental · 07-06-2011 08:39PM

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Wowzer, looks good. I think I'll buy it.

In fairness though, they do have a valid point.
Research shows that the phenomenon of killing of prostitutes to get back the money you paid them skyrocketed soon after the release of GTA, as did random carjackings and killing sprees.

To be fair that could also be linked to Dell closing in Limerick.

F.U.B.A.R · 07-06-2011 08:47PM

I thought nividia only won the rights to Modern warfare three as the term modern warfare is open domain and used long before the game was created where call of duty is trade marked by trey-arch and seeing as they didnt want a third one they have no envolvement in this new release so it is infact, Daily Maill, Called "Modern Warfare 3" no cod

Also anyone remember "No Russian"???

mehfesto · 08-06-2011 12:39AM

In one particularly vivid shot, an armed soldier on a truck cuts in front of a Tube carriage, derailing and causing it to explode.

...Other scenes show aerial attacks on New York and grenades exploding on the streets of Paris and Berlin.

...‘I have concerns as these games are hyper-real and take place in a landscape we are familiar with. In light of the fact we have just had the 7/7 inquests, it is in incredibly poor taste.'

:eek:

The Mail think it's acceptable to kill Iraqis on their own turf in these games though. Shocker.

LondonIrish90 · 08-06-2011 12:50AM

To be fair, I don't see the Mail leading any campaign to have the game banned. In fact I don't see the views of the Mail represented at all. I see them reporting the views of another group.

Still, brilliant manipulation of what has actually been said by some here. Many would make excellent tabloid journalists.

DaveDaRave · 08-06-2011 01:05AM

"Call Of Duty 3 has not yet received an age certification and shows soldiers running through the streets of London with machine guns while bombs explode and buildings tumble to the ground."

Call of Duty 3 came out 5 years ago and is set in World War 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty_3

But yeah, let's ban that, it's shíte

Shiroki · 08-06-2011 01:09AM

They'll never cop on.

Snowie · 08-06-2011 01:11AM

well dont bye it for your children if its deamed unsuitable...

El Weirdo · 08-06-2011 01:19AM

frisbeeface wrote: »

Good blog posts on the article

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2011/05/mails-call-of-duty-fury.html
http://www.minority-thought.com/2011/05/daily-mails-dubious-fury-over-call-of.html

Usual Daily Mail sensationalist rubbish

From the comments on Tabloid Watch:

Anonymous wrote: »

Interestingly, the developers clearly are not basing the event 100% on the July 7th bombings, as the screenshots clearly are not based on any real section of the Tube. Also, reading how the event is meant to take place, we are only meant to draw similarities with the real world event, since last time I checked, you couldn't fit a pick-up truck in a Tube tunnel...

bjh21 wrote: »

Hmm. The standard Yerkes tube tunnel is 3.56m in diameter[1]. A current Toyota Hilux pickup is 1.76m wide and 1.795m high[2], for a diagonal of about 2.52m. I reckon it'd fit.

[1] http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/intro.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux

Lol.

richymcdermott · 08-06-2011 01:27AM

This coming from a newspaper that shows half naked women , sorry i wanted a newspaper not playboy magazine

Daily Mail calls for new Call of Duty to be banned

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