Nov
12
2009
Weekend Game Review: Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 2 (Multi)

While the media debates the issue of games being ‘harmful’ or ‘poisonous’ to people’s minds, it never speaks of the creative capacity of the medium, as well as its capacity to incite an emotional as well as an intellectual reaction from its audience. While the media is busy lynching its latest scapegoat, it unsurprisingly refuses to acknowledge that games have a significant capacity for sending messages. Modern Warfare 2 sends a clear and simple message: War is brutal. War is ugly. War has consequences. Continue reading
