http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/10/medal-of-honors-taliban-multiplayer/
There is a lot of commotion about DICE's decision to allow players to play as the Taliban in the next installment of the MoH series.
Getting things like 'kill streaks' and headshots on coalition soldiers would seem like a thorny issue indeed.
Dan Whitehead from Eurogamer seems to take a particularly strong stance:
“Watching virtual Coalition troops gunned down by insurgents in the ruins of Kabul, I felt more than a little weird, especially since a friend lost his brother in Afghanistan only a few weeks ago. This is a real war that is happening right now, real blood is being shed, and simulating that for fragfest fun while being rewarded for kill streaks… Well, there’s just something a bit icky about that. In single-player, there can be a story that adds context and meaning to the carnage. In multiplayer, it’s all just for fun.”
Unfortunately, I was not able to find a similar blurb from Dan and his weirded out feelings regarding the 'No Russian' mission from Modern Warfare 2 (I am disregarding his single-player "excuse" as laughable by the way).
Your thoughts?
[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="100" id="2716883"]Quoting Scoutdog, reply 97My intent was to make a point about how difficult it is to grow anything of legitimate value in the environment there (my friend Manting also told me that the US built a dam in Afghanistan during the late Cold War that messed up the water table and caused that situation, but I have not been able to confirm the accuracy of this fact). Looking at my original post, I realize I could have conveyed that more clearly with "stayed in their village and tried to farm sand". But I suspect we may be boring the other posters here...Well, my mother had lived in Afghanistan before the coup and the Taliban. She told me you used to be able to grow fruits and grapes there (a lot of blood oranges come from Afghanistan), which is a virtually unknown fact. I hadn't heard about the dam but that doesn't surprise me. I had always assumed the Taliban realized opium was more profitable. Afghanistan was actually a really nice, relatively peaceful place. It was the cultural center of a couple of powerful kingdoms. Who the hell buys opium, anyway?[/quote]
They had a very, very nice irrigation system going on there actually. If it's possible to restore that, I hope they do. It's not as if the country was just a dead piece of land in the middle of desert.
Afghanistan will probably be torn asunder for the large deposits of minerals it's supposedly sitting on. I can imagine destruction of mountains becoming a hot topic as strip mining eventually finds its way there. If not by us, then the Chinese, Afghanistan will likely see more blood before it sees less.
Whereas our so called developed countries will strip their soil for minerals and buy opium, we would be having a good time playing MoH and killing evil talibans. Isn't it wonderful ? Now, that's what i call civilization.
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