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Infinity Ward on Modern Warfare 2: "We want them [gamers] to be emotionally shocked"

Infinity Ward on Modern Warfare 2:

The much publicized release of that leaked video footage from Modern Warfare 2 showing terrorists killing civilians in an airport turned out to be a scene within the game that show players acting as part of the villains.

Activision Blizzard Inc. had stated that the scene was intended to evoke the "atrocities of terrorism" and should not be taken as a description of the overall game experience.

IW head developer Vince Zampella also adds that the intention behind that scene was to startle the players and said: We want the player to be emotionally attached. We want them to be emotionally shocked.

Modern Warfare 2 has players putting an end to this threat by infiltrating the organization responsible-as the aforementioned footage showed then ultimately defeat them in the end.

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Source: http://gamesthirstarticles.blogspot.com/2009/10/activision-leaked-mdw2-video-does-not.html

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TK429 31/10/2009
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rivalZone
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Link to the video anyone?
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TK429
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Here it is www.gametrailers.com/ for however long this will still be available that is.
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KBExP
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lol they have already got a huge show of emotion from the public, and the game isn't even out yet. Mission accomplished Infinity Ward.
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LMA0
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I call it American propaganda
pdark007
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ouch i dont think this will stay on shelves long guys...
LMA0
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pdark007 said: ouch i dont think this will stay on shelves long guys...

Nah it wouldn't
stonecold
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TK429 said: Here it is www.gametrailers.com/ for however long this will still be available that is.


Awesome
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skua
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OMG... I just payed off my prestige edition today... Cant wait!!
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Megaaidan
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looks mad as

Activision Blizzard Inc. had stated that the scene was intended to evoke the "atrocities of terrorism" and should not be taken as a description of the overall game experience.


oh and its working
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cheese_man
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Oh **** that footage is pretty ****ed up. I thought it was just a cutscene, but you actually shoot them yourself. I dont see the point in this, but oh well... im still buying
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ozchap
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cheese_man said: Oh **** that footage is pretty ****ed up. I thought it was just a cutscene, but you actually shoot them yourself. I dont see the point in this, but oh well... im still buying



its weird, this **** goes on in real life all the time and the kids are completely desensitized.....whack a few polygons and pixels together and all of a sudden people are supposed to be "emotionally shocked"?

im still mourning the death of nick & tom the snow bros

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nickkcin
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Hmm... FPS's and emotional don't really fit together for me
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LMA0
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I wasn't that shocked like its only a game.
nugget28
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I was more shocked about the lack of dedicated servers on PC than this so called "emotionally shocking" footage
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nugget28 said: I was more shocked about the lack of dedicated servers on PC than this so called "emotionally shocking" footage


same
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Some pretty intense stuff there. No comic relief by getting a trophy eh?
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LMA0 said:

nugget28 said: I was more shocked about the lack of dedicated servers on PC than this so called "emotionally shocking" footage


same


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SkItZo said:

LMA0 said:

nugget28 said: I was more shocked about the lack of dedicated servers on PC than this so called "emotionally shocking" footage


same


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ozchap said:

cheese_man said: Oh **** that footage is pretty ****ed up. I thought it was just a cutscene, but you actually shoot them yourself. I dont see the point in this, but oh well... im still buying


its weird, this **** goes on in real life all the time and the kids are completely desensitized.....whack a few polygons and pixels together and all of a sudden people are supposed to be "emotionally shocked"?
im still mourning the death of nick & tom the snow bros



Yeh I know, but whats the point in it. I doubt people like us would be able to get shocked by it, its just stupid.. and I doubt people would have fun with that mission.. just shooting people standing still who dont fight back
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If Infinity Ward is hoping to get the same emotional reaction as MGS4 did, then they should know better. I don't really like thinking about actual war while I'm having such a fun time killing loads of people.
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ozchap
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cheese_man said:
Yeh I know, but whats the point in it. I doubt people like us would be able to get shocked by it, its just stupid.. and I doubt people would have fun with that mission.. just shooting people standing still who dont fight back



i agree, its pretty lame.

at least the extremist muslim jihadists will probably enjoy playing it. ive always thought about how weird it would have been for them playing cod4, shooting at generic stereotypes of themselves....
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skua said: OMG... I just payed off my prestige edition today... Cant wait!!


i just sold one of mine on Ebay for $420. I can't believe people would fork out that kind of money but lucky me
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