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The latest edition of EA Games' "Medal of Honor" allows users to be a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan or an Afghan Taliban fighter tasked with killing American and NATO soldiers. This role playing choice has prompted U.S. officials to ban the game?s sale on its military bases. Billed as the closest thing to actual combat, the highly anticipated video game will not be sold at any of the Army & Air Force Exchange Service?s 181 locations in the country and abroad, or on its online site.
Interestingly enough, the game was developed with advice from elite American special forces and takes place during Operation Anaconda, part of the Western war in Afghanistan that followed the Sept. 11 attacks. Gamers are typically given the option of playing the enemy in role playing games and EA Games believes that games are an art form and should not get any more flack than movies or books.
Edited by Trademark, 16 September 2010 - 07:09 AM.
