To the brain dead ...........YES!!!!!!!!!!!1

Modern Warfare 2 has a BBFC rating of 18. No-one under that age should be playing it. If parents let their kids play a game like this then they have no right to complain if their kids get messed up because of it. (which is very unlikely)

I played violent video games when I was 'under age' and it never did me any harm!

Seriousy though, and without trying to be big headed, not everyone is as mature as me and others were. Parent's have to take responsibility for their kids and judge what is appropriate for their particular child.

If a game is an 18 like this one, you probably shouldn't be letting your kids play it unless you know they are mature and can think for themselves.

There have been violent games of one sort or another ever since gaming began. Seems bizarre that this particular game is being singled out - especially as it is the second in the series, and indeed there have been other Call Of Duty titles before that, and there are many, many war-orientated games like this on the market.

Bottom line is that anyone who would play such games and then go out and repeat the same scenario in real life is f****d in the head to start with.

Video games, violent movies, music with so-called 'hidden' messages etc do not create mindless killers, yet this seems to be the attitude that the media love to portray.

For this scenario to be true, that such games will encourage people to go out and kill people so the game must be banned, then this posits the notion that EVERYONE is susceptible to this influence, and we could all be killers.

But yet millions and millions of people play such games and DON'T go out and repeat the same in real life. Yet it only takes one or two idiots to create a furore. And these are indeed disturbed individuals, but then again they always were.

Look at this from another angle - if video games are that influential, what about people who play driving games, and hair around tracks knocking other cars off the road, crashing, performing stunts  etc - do these people go out and do the same on our roads? 

Tue 10 November 2009 6.33am, fredgarvin wrote:

Bottom line is that anyone who would play such games and then go out and repeat the same scenario in real life is f****d in the head to start with.

or easily influenced. then again, Id like to know how bad they feel afterwards..anyone whos ever been anywhere near a conflict/war knows..its easy to 'do the deed'..living with it, thats entirely different.

I guarantee the bravado is merely that. no matter how many smirks in a court room...theyll still regret it for life.