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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

    Game » consists of 22 releases. Released Nov 10, 2009

    The sequel to 2007’s wildly successful first-person-shooter Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues the story of American and British soldiers fighting Russian ultra-nationalist forces.

    Mature games being given more respect by the media & politicions?

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    Edited By LordCrom

    Has the industry reached a point where Mature video games have become much more accepted by the general public?  Since the "Sexbox" incident on Fox a couple of years ago we have seen games like GTA: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Heavy Rain released with no large public outcry from major media or government officials.  We are talking about games that have mild to strong sexual content or have some form of male female nudity.  Each of these games have had either a previous game in the series or at least had the developer face public/media or legal issues in the past.  GTA suffered the Hot Coffee legal battle.  Developer Bioware suffered Fox News "Sexbox" issue for the first Mass Effect.  Heavy Rain's developer Quantic Dream had to make cuts of nudity to it's previous game (Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenhiet) before it could see a North American release (with a rating below AO).  Jump forward two years and we've had full frontal male nudity in GTA: Lost & Damned, multiple sexual partners in both Gay Tony & Mass Effect/Dragon Age as well as female nudity in Heavy Rain and no major news organization has made a public stink about it and no government official has asked for hearings. 
     
    Even violence in video games seems to have become less of a factor to the public.  The "No Russian" scene from Modern Warfare 2 only seemed to get a mild amount of attention from the media and then nothing.  Are we at a point where we don't have to fear the government coming in and taking away are mature video games or having the ESRB force cuts of content for fear they will be told they are not doing their job correctly and the government should step in to protect us?    
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    #1  Edited By LordCrom

    Has the industry reached a point where Mature video games have become much more accepted by the general public?  Since the "Sexbox" incident on Fox a couple of years ago we have seen games like GTA: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Heavy Rain released with no large public outcry from major media or government officials.  We are talking about games that have mild to strong sexual content or have some form of male female nudity.  Each of these games have had either a previous game in the series or at least had the developer face public/media or legal issues in the past.  GTA suffered the Hot Coffee legal battle.  Developer Bioware suffered Fox News "Sexbox" issue for the first Mass Effect.  Heavy Rain's developer Quantic Dream had to make cuts of nudity to it's previous game (Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenhiet) before it could see a North American release (with a rating below AO).  Jump forward two years and we've had full frontal male nudity in GTA: Lost & Damned, multiple sexual partners in both Gay Tony & Mass Effect/Dragon Age as well as female nudity in Heavy Rain and no major news organization has made a public stink about it and no government official has asked for hearings. 
     
    Even violence in video games seems to have become less of a factor to the public.  The "No Russian" scene from Modern Warfare 2 only seemed to get a mild amount of attention from the media and then nothing.  Are we at a point where we don't have to fear the government coming in and taking away are mature video games or having the ESRB force cuts of content for fear they will be told they are not doing their job correctly and the government should step in to protect us?    
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    #2  Edited By JJWeatherman

    I think FOX is just scared of making idiots of themselves again. Then again they probably still don't know how idiotic they sounded.

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    #3  Edited By ButtonsMcBoomBoom

    There are better things for the news to show and sensationalize for now, and being worried about government that the government is going to censor it is just more sensationalized news jibberish... for now anyway. ESRB doesn't force the cut of any content, game developers cut the content to get below an adult rating. No game platform allows adult only games, so getting a rating that high is pretty much a death sentence for a game anyway. Keep in mind though that games get banned around the world because their governments feel the need to step in, but I doubt it will happen in america any time soon since the last thing everybody wants is for a government body to be involved in regulating entertainment.

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    #4  Edited By Meowayne

    Mature-rated videogame =/= mature video game

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    #5  Edited By iam3green

    nah, i think there is just nothing that had really popped out yet. like for example the gta hot coffee. it was made then it there are more sex scenes in video games.

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