this could be the first battlefield game where you play as a spy. you will go to locations such as the streets of London, villages of Afghanistan, villages of Iraq and the streets of new York keeping terrorism losing. you will fight afghan militants and Iraqi militants and play as them too.
you will also go to other locations, to make the game more broader than just the middle east. such as Chechen rebels against Russia, nuclear charged face off involving india and Pakistan. maybe even play as the real ira! you will be in the largest cities of the world foiling terrorist plots and maybe letting them go if you are not fast enough.
all the gaming modes will apply however some characters may have to be excluded.
a question. has electronic arts not done this yet because of the controversy over medal of honour about ten years ago now?
I am taking a more serious approach to this. that hawkeye dude has an idea too, but his or her idea would more than likely surpass mine because it doesn’t, unlike mine, be so serious.
Because at some point you will have to play as a faction that even now are torturing, bombing and murdering innocent men women and children.
Having served in Her Britannical Majesties Royal Air Force for 30 years, playing as the ‘real IRA’ would be a definite turn of for me and no doubt, many others.
Again, nor a bad point, well presented but ‘glorifying’ organisations that think it is legitimate to bomb pubs in Guilford and Birmingham is going a tad far.
I wouldn’t call it glorifying.
And it’s not like we haven’t seen certain equally bad German factions included in video games before.
It’s also not like the more commonly “glorified” factions are all squeaky clean.
I’m fairly sure there are plenty of people who ignore their real life hatred for various regions so they can have their fun in a video game.
Dont get me wrong, I can understand why you feel that way. I just think a lot of other people also feel that way towards certain countries/factions but can put feelings aside for a video game.
I think there is a subtle difference between playing as a nation’s standing army regardless of that nation’s political ideology and a terrorist organisation.
In the former, the individual soldier is often ambivalent to such ideology were an individual terrorist is a slave to theirs.
It also doesn’t help.that David Haines was a colleague of mine.
