"in which I foster discussion..." blah blah. You're not really fostering any discussion. You're just baiting people into typing in all caps. Boring. I guess it's easier than actually writing reviews though. Now get to work you lazy turd!

I played the game and was a bit shocked by this sequence. My beef is that the whole storyline was kinda silly, and so it made this part seem weirdly out of place. I mean, compare this level with "wolverines." It just didn't seem to be part of the same game. It's just knee-jerk shock tactics tacked onto a stupid plot. Either that or some game developers are taking themselves far, far too seriously.

I like the level where you roll everything up into a ball and then pandas vomit rainbows (http://www.flickr.com/explore/panda)

Pretty much the entire FPS market has gone stagnant. What has come out that's been inovative or creative? Bioshock and Half-Life 2? Anything else? It's all the same stupid concepts over and over and over and over again. Stale genre.

Oh wait... there are the Metroid Prime games. I guess there's like 5 FPS games out of 200 that aren't ass.

And as towards COD:MW2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THU2H5_nadQ

I'd like to how it fits into the story of the game. I've heard reviewers say the scene is disturbing, but that it's obviously intentionally disturbing - the story was supposed to elicit a visceral reaction. The same scene in a movie wouldn't result in any calls for censorship, and if they are using the video game platform to tell an interactive story, the game should receive the same treatment.

Jason, I already wrote the review. It's linked in the blog post. I expected people to grasp that, but since I'm also baffled by how exactly I'm "baiting people to type in all caps" -- Am I inviting the denizens of 4chan or your elderly relatives to comment on the topic? -- I'm not sure if you even read what I wrote.

I think I should probably be insulting you for being a twat about this whole thing, but I'm kinda baffled by everything you typed, so I'm just going to stare at your comment through slitted eyes and slowly shake my head back and forth.

So, later in the storyline, does your character get court-marshaled and incarcerated for taking part in the massacre of hundreds of civilians?

Seems like if the overarching mission is to take out this Makarov guy, you get plenty of opportunities to do so in that scene alone...

What bothers me is that they didn't implement the sequence better. The first MW had that very visceral scene where you are the deposed dictator riding in a car on the way to getting shot in the face. That was moving and immersive and extremely violent, but it fit with the story.

I guess it just bothered me how they decided to go with the "Makarov is PURE SHITTING EVIL, so the only way to stop him is to pay him lots of money and have you murder frequent flyers on his behalf. But it's cool, hypothetical millions will thank you."

"So, later in the storyline, does your character get court-marshaled and incarcerated for taking part in the massacre of hundreds of civilians?"

Not so much, no. The mission is an undercover op designed to get you in good with Makarov's forces so he can be taken out all legal like.

Then again, considering that the overall aim is essentially to remove that one dude, yeah, it probably would have saved everyone a lot of time and corpse clean up to just aim the SAW toward Makarov instead of the fleeing civilians.

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

Nex, I think Jason thinks your bait is how you're like, "All you pansy hippies can shut your smelly traps. But also, listen up 'cuz I'm here to offend (hopefully)." It's like you just figured out the key to offending the people who annoy you: you call them names and then say wotwot.

Anyway, I'm with Showstopper.

Yeah, I assumed it was something like that ROM.

Which either means he's one of those easily offended hyper liberals who are just as annoying as their hyper conservative counterparts, or he has no grasp on the concept of why giggling at ultra sensitive neohippies is funny for those of us who don't wear our political/moral/ethical affiliations on our sleeves, backpacks or ponchos.

Ah well, he made me giggle for a few minutes. I only wish I had an aircraft carrier and a sign saying "Mission Accomplished!" that I could pose in front of.

In addition to what I said above, you basically started this discussion with: "I already know exactly what I think of this, and no opinion/perspective you have will make me change my mind at all. So let's discuss this thing - so we can go over how you're wrong." Which, yeah, can sometimes elicit responses from people... but all in all, it's not really going to go any where. Keep in mind that we're not reading the gaming boards and sites, and don't know jack about the controversy around this segment of the game before you posted it. No one here was up in arms about it. I honestly don't feel comfortable saying that I'm not into it, because according to you that pretty much automatically shoves me into the easily offended hyper liberal camp. I don't know how to respond to this post without just falling into some set for you to mock.

I get the impression that in Level 1 (of your life) you were attacked by a gang of hyper liberal mama-lezbos, and were injured so badly that you vowed in Level 2 to get the jump on them and bash in their granola brains?