Postal developed a firestorm when it was released. It died pretty quickly because of it too.

now you're saying is not the atrocities toward digital virtual civilians AIs that is bad, but that you are the one to do it ? so its okay to have it in the game if it's not you doing it ? i dont quite follow you.

In the end, Activision has the right to design their game in this way, but I do reproach them for choosing to present this scene in this manner (note: I haven't seen the video because it was taken down). I don't think it is quite like beating up hookers and stealing cars in Grand Theft Auto; GTA is an arcade game, pure and simple. Last I checked, in real life you couldn't steal a car, crash into things repeatedly, and in 5 minutes have militaty tanks and helicopters chasing you around. The Call of Duty series is of course not the most serious tactical simulator around, but it

The problem is this speedo. We aren't talking about a game where you are going into combat. Combat games have been around as long as cowboys and indians, games that many of us played as children. This is a game in which you participate in wholesale slaughter of innocent individuals. It is an atrocity simulator pure and simple. You may shrug your shoulders and go 'big deal' but it is a big deal. We are traveling from games that are violent but at least give some kind of justification for violent acts to games where atrocity and slaughter are somehow acceptable.

Games where you are playing Soviet or German soldiers are games that have to playing German or Soviet Soldiers. I don't know of one game where you are called upon to slaughter civilians. There may be one out there but I doubt it would be that popular. Soldiering for the most part is an honorable profession and in general most games portray soldiers in honorable positions. Subjects, like that Nazi's and the Holocaust and event he role the Wehrmacht had in that horrible phase of our human existance have for the most part been taboo. Simulations where you randomly kill people have come up from time to time but for the most part these have been rare and with few exeptions have been given tons of grief.

Do you think the Native Americans in this country would stand for a simulation of atrocities that the occurred during the 1880s? I can imagine the firestorm that would occur if a game was released that allowed the player to participate in the murder of women and children, just the things that happened during that period. Likewise a game where you shove people into cattle cars or shoot people in the Gulags is in horrible taste. There is a reason that those games aren't made, it is because it sickens the average person.

Do these guys have a right to make this game? Yeah I suppose so. But that certainly doesn't mean that I don't have the right to object to it and to make my objections loud and clear. I have just decided that if Activision releases this game, with that gameplay option available then I will not buy a product from them again. My children will not play any activision game. I also suspect that there will be a widespread campaign to boycott their games. Activision sells a lot of games, they may pay more of a penalty for this than they suspect.