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Would You Play a Video Game Where U.S. Troops Are the Enemy?

Christine Lusey 2011/05/19 19:00:00
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As far as first-person-shooters go, it's pretty standard. Battlefield theme? Check. Intense graphics? Check. Soaring music? Check. Shooting at Americans? Che - hang on, what?

Guess who's entering the war game scene! The People's Liberation Army of China, with a new release called "Glorious Mission," in which players must defeat U.S. forces.

Its game play, which includes a basic training portion as well as battleground shootouts, lead many to believe it's based on the U.S. Army's own game, "America's Army."

Though in that game, players take on terrorists or, as Wired magazine puts it, "generic Middle Eastern or Central Asian insurgents." And not, you know, people with whom we're supposed to be at least marginally friendly.


Read More: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/gamers-tar...

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  • Brandon 2012/01/16 19:53:37
    Yes
    Brandon
    hell yes! Im sick of generic fps's where the US are the good guys.

    Give me a game with a twist like this and I'll gladly fork over my cash.
  • hannah 2011/06/12 06:15:44
    No
    hannah
    +1
    Hell no and anyone who would can go stand in front of our soldiers right now! These people risk their lives for you and this is how uyou repay them? Grow up or get out
  • Korgull hannah 2011/06/29 22:58:20
    Korgull
    We repay them by using our freedoms they apparently fight to protect by playing a game.
    NOT using those freedoms would be an insult to them.
  • Eneri 2011/06/10 02:42:30
    Yes
    Eneri
    It's a game, for crying out loud. Whatever...
  • BlazeEagle Eneri 2011/06/11 09:43:19
    BlazeEagle
    Even a game can influence the mind in negative & positive ways.

    As an American, I feel it’s disrespectful & dishonorable to partake in a game where killing American solider’s is a choice.
  • Gabby Grandchamp 2011/06/09 23:55:44
    Yes
    Gabby Grandchamp
    I mean it's just a game it doesn't mean you're going to actually go shoot troops
  • icymore 2011/05/26 21:46:05
    Yes
    icymore
    +1
    why not? It's just a game. I don't actually believe in running down pedestrians and then beating them to death and stealing their cash, but I'll do it in GTA. Because it's not real. At all.
  • SJesh 2011/05/26 15:29:30
    Yes
    SJesh
    it´s a "Game"
  • SarahAnne 2011/05/26 12:00:36
    Yes
    SarahAnne
    It's only a game though, I wouldn't be offended if someone made a game where you have to kill Australian soldiers.
  • u000 2011/05/26 09:49:51
    Yes
    u000
    Why not?! The game is just the game nothing more nothing less.
  • Andrew 2011/05/23 21:38:17
    No
    Andrew
    No, but I still play Grand Theft Auto.
  • jenna 2011/05/23 04:34:00
    Yes
    jenna
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
  • Aardfay 2011/05/23 01:28:26
    Yes
    Aardfay
    +1
    "It's just a game"
    You want to brainwash kids all over the world into wanting to be americans and killing anyone who isn't? If you allow kids to kill in a game, they should be able to choose who to kill.
  • Adam 2011/05/22 05:18:22
  • Amairani Villalobos Ochoa 2011/05/22 00:11:28
    Yes
    Amairani Villalobos Ochoa
    yes it actually sounds like fun i mean it aint such of a big deal
  • LastAliveLove 2011/05/21 23:45:17
    Yes
    LastAliveLove
    +1
    I play GTA games. I kill all sorts of people then, why am I not allowed to kill my own countries army? It's just a game, not a terrorist control unit.
  • sabre2th1 2011/05/21 22:28:10
    Yes
    sabre2th1
    +3
    So america is allowed to make games about killing other country people but when it comes to killing americans in a GAME It becomes controversial ... america isn't always the "good guy" btw...
  • jabo sabre2th1 2011/05/23 05:52:12
    jabo
    America is always the good guy, until something better comes along, and I doubt we will see that in our lifetime.
  • sabre2th1 jabo 2011/06/02 19:53:13
    sabre2th1
    yes ... -,-
  • Demon Dolphin 2011/05/21 21:58:55
    Undecided
    Demon Dolphin
    +2
    Depends on how good the game actually is.
  • MO.gal 2011/05/21 18:58:09
    No
    MO.gal
    +2
    No, I would not.
  • aherd2 2011/05/21 18:30:40
    Yes
    aherd2
    +2
    We kill people in video games.... obviously video games aren't real. Why is it ok to pretend to kill people as long as they aren't labeled Americans?
  • Bob DiN aherd2 2011/05/21 20:56:31
    Bob DiN
    +2
    if you have to ask that question your to immature to be on the internet.
  • Bdawg Bob DiN 2011/05/22 21:30:45
    Bdawg
    No, you're too immature to be on the internet.
  • Bob DiN Bdawg 2011/05/22 23:18:42
    Bob DiN
    +1
    Your really love being in make believe land.
  • Bdawg Bob DiN 2011/07/27 00:41:50
    Bdawg
    You're illiterate, and I think the question was a very mature question, so either respect my opinion or don't; you don't need to have stupid, incoherent rebuttals.
  • PanDuh 2011/05/21 15:38:19 (edited)
    Yes
    PanDuh
    +4
    If we can make games with other nations being the enemy (keyword, GAME) then there really shouldn't be a big problem for them to make one with us as the enemy. It's nothing more then a game and really shouldn't be taken all that seriously. If the game play and storyline is good, I'll play. If the game sucks, I'll do something else with my life.
  • ReasonOverFaith BN - 0 2011/05/21 14:57:16
  • Ldude893 2011/05/21 14:42:58 (edited)
    Yes
    Ldude893
    +2
    Could use some new perspective for a change. These days, almost every popular first-person shooter set in the modern world involves killing either Russians, North Koreans, the Chinese, Nazis, Communists, Nazi-communists, Aliens, Arabs, Cubans, zombies, or people of some fictional country in Africa.
  • PanDuh Ldude893 2011/05/21 15:39:19
    PanDuh
    So in short, everyone but us xD
  • jabo Ldude893 2011/05/23 06:55:46
    jabo
    +1
    Ldude693 I suppose in your sick mind that it would have been okay to have games and movies of our solders in WW2, Korean War and Vietnam being slaughtered by Hitler and the Japanese Empire. What if your father had died in Vietnam or Iraq, would you still want to see our soldiers getting killed by the animals that started WW2? For your infomation, we have always been on the side of the good guys. You know countries like the UK, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand..etc.. I doubt any of them would be too happy with a sick game like you are wanting.,. People like you are what's wrong with America today. If we were to be attacked today, like we were in WW2 we might as well just give up, because cowards like you won't fight for their country.
    Have you ever heard of Pearl Harbor, or the way Hitler killed so many in London? Tell it to the son or daughter whose parents were killed in London. Is that the kind of new perspective you want, for a change.
  • Ldude893 jabo 2011/05/23 10:07:17
    Ldude893
    +1
    It's a video game, you're not killing real people. There's an extreme difference between shooting a gun on a battlefield in real life and shooting a gun on a battlefield within a digital simulation.
    If people don't like to play the game, you can choose not to play it, but don't force everyone else not to play it just because you find it distasteful. The first amendment protects free speech regardless if a certain group of people like it or not.

    As to your idea that America was always on the good side, the thousands of Native Americans massacred, killed and displaced in the hands of the United States would beg to differ.
  • Mike Miller 2011/05/21 14:39:38
    No
    Mike Miller
    +4
    It's my partiotism and belief in my own country that makes me unable to make us the bad guys in any video game. I could not viturally kill any American in a stupid video game.
  • shydreamguy 2011/05/21 09:07:13
    No
    shydreamguy
    +4
    I just feel it would be wrong & i wouldnt
    I faught for America in a war & almost died doing it & cant imagine
    even playing a game were i was against America.
    i dont care if that sounds silly.
  • Bob DiN shydrea... 2011/05/21 12:10:11
    Bob DiN
    +2
    You have no sense of loyalty.
  • MO.gal Bob DiN 2011/05/21 18:49:42
  • Bob DiN MO.gal 2011/05/21 20:19:35
    Bob DiN
    +2
    I'm a combat veteran also where's my thank you.
  • BlazeEagle Bob DiN 2011/06/11 09:47:52
    BlazeEagle
    Thank you for your service to our country!
  • Bob DiN BlazeEagle 2011/06/11 15:38:07
    Bob DiN
    Your welcome.
  • shydrea... Bob DiN 2011/10/02 08:51:41
    shydreamguy
    Thank You Bob :)
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