Comments on: Reflecting on Modern Warfare 2’s Airport Massacre

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Crossing the line | Nomuda Games | Official Blog — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:15:14 +0000

[...] Tassi wrote a reaction to the Modern Warfare scene that is more eloquent than I could possibly be. “It’s [...]

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:26:14 +0000

[...] these are the guys who helped put together Modern Warfare 2’s controversial airport massacre level. They know a thing or two about shock value. But this isn’t a video [...]

By: Marc Flores

Marc Flores — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:35:34 +0000

Paul, being an avid gamer yourself and reading your reaction, I think it proves the point that video game violence doesn’t really desensitize people to it.

By the way, just like the first one, this game is really addicting!

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:43 +0000

[...] image the video game generation likes.” Yeah, well the video game generation also thinks shooting Russian civilians in an airport is good fun, so excuse me if I’m not ready to follow [...]

By: solda

solda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:42:44 +0000

Wow thats pretty fuckin messed up… I hope they dont seriously think that. Those are the type of ppl who just utterly hold up the progression of mankind. Such close minded evil views D:

Maybe they will grow up to realise that its totally messed up to say shit like that, even still tho it says a lot about how desensitized kids are now.

By: nickmerietto

nickmerietto — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:10:38 +0000

This is my first post on this website and probably my last. i’m posting this because I’m a high school sophomore, and I’d like you to hear my perspective.

When this game came out, a lot of kids went to the midnight premier, and some even skipped school the next day to play it. In the next few days, this scene in the game was the one kids talked about. But not in the way you saw it. Not at all. The scene was disgusting to me, all of the emotion made me sick, the realism was intense. But the next day, kids at school talked about how fun the mission was, and some of the obviously racist kids said that “the communists deserve it”. A senior said it was like “killing mosquitoes”. These kids are desensitized,and it’s complete bullshit. Them saying that the people in the airport deserve to die because of their nationality just really pissed me off. I know they’re pixels, but it’s the idea that made me so angry.

I just thought you guys should read this since you’re older and not exposed to this. I can only imagine how a Russian student would feel if they heard something like that.

By: solda

solda — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:50:09 +0000

Yea i felt the same like a lot of other ppl. I think what makes this different from other games where your killing civilians is that your forced to walk through most the level, kinda adds a sinister feel to it, plus the general realism of the game too.

I think that for the normal, non psychotic person, this would serve as a deterrant to violence. It rly shows you how raw it is when stuff like that happens in real life and makes u appreciate how horrific it really is.

Hopefully.. this is an example that violent games in the future can serve as a deterrant for actuall violent crimes in real life and not be constantly used as a scape goat by critics for violence. Altho some things will never change..

By: Did airport slaughter scene get Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 banned in Russia? | Current News Blog

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:06:14 +0000

[...] Paul Tassi at True/Slant played through the level and described it as such: You walk out into the security gate at an airport, with lines full of people swarming to get through to their flights. I cocked my head while playing, as did all the civilians who turned to stare at us, and before I knew what was happening, Makarov and his men opened fire. [...]

By: joebaur

joebaur — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:11:43 +0000

I saw a good point made by someone under the YouTube comments.

The commenter asked how we as Americans would feel if Russians made a game, turning the tables and had a level where you watched as American civilians got slaughtered.

I’ve always been what some call morally sound and others call a pansy or lame and stayed away from video games where you kill other people (with the exception of Nazis). I’ll stick to sport games!

By: Paul Tassi

Paul Tassi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:36:56 +0000

They needed a level for people to talk about. They had it in the first game, where an entire mission consists of your character crawling out of a downed helicopter after a nuclear blast, only to die a few minutes later from radiation poisoning.

I think the inadvertent side effect of the mission though was to make you think twice about violence, at least that’s what it did for me anyway.