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enrageorange on 30 November 2011
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scottie said:
enrageorange said:
scottie said:
thranx said:
scottie said:
Make a game involving the Iranians invading the USA and see how swiftly it gets refused classification.

 

It is not even close to being a fair comparison. Give me a game where the aim is to invade the USA, not to defend it.

There are plenty of rts games where there are missions involving taking over America. Example in Rise of Nations, Thrones of Patriots expansion, you can play as the soviets and invade and destroy the United States.

 

There are other games with questionable actions against the United States. In fallout 3 you are basically destroying the US government after a nuclear war. In call of duty black ops you can play as very well known US political figures in a gamemode where you are guaranteed to eventually get killed. 


The USSR does not exist as a country anymore, and the Russian Federation has neither the desire, nor the capability to invade the USA.

 

As i said, I want a game where you play as IRANIANS (Or Chinese, Koreans, or any specific or generic middle easteners), invading the USA. Not Russians, not Canadians.

 

As an example of how right I am, in Medal of Honor, you are able to play as the taliban, not even invading the USA, and it was banned for sale by the US military. If the Taliban had been invading the US, and if it had been single player, not multiplayer (ie much more plot and character driven) it would have been banned all throughout the USA for sure.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/medal-of-honor-video-game_n_709619.html

I don't understand your first comment, I gave you multiple examples of games where the goal is to conquer America and then you add a new specification to fufill your agenda. Give me 10 minutes and I'll find a game about playing as China invading the United States and I'm sure you will make up an exception to that. And Iran also neither has the desire nor capability to invade the USA either so I fail to see why its relevent to post that.

As for your bottom comment, that is very very different. The United States didn't ban the game at all. Military stores chose not to stock it because they feared criticizm from their customers, us military personel. The game was sold everywhere in the United States, just not in government controlled stores where the government are actually allowed to chose what to buy and sell. If america tried to ban any game in public stores because you controlled Iranians invading America they would get sued by so many different organizations and lose and eventually be forced to sell it.