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The makers say creating a title based on a conflict that claimed about 60 million lives has been a challenge.
It's been 10 years since the Call of Duty franchise based a game during World War Two.
"In no way do you want to glorify violence, but at the same time you can't ignore it," says Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey.
"We spent a lot of time working on the right balance."
[...] "It would be insincere not to touch on what was really happening," Michael explains.
"From the politics at the time, segregation among the allies, the role of women, to the Holocaust.
"By turning away from them we would not have brought the right level of awareness or be able to honour what was really happening.
Fine, but they better not cut the classic wise-cracking Brooklynite from the squad or Call of Duty and me are done.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:28AM (5 children)
The relevant German law (Strafgesetzbuch § 86a):
The big problem is that Germany doesn't seem to consider video games as "art" for the purposes of this law, and so you'll have a tough time attempting to convince the authorities there that any of rubrics in subsection (3) apply. I don't think any video game studio is going to try to fight this one in court, though you might just have a case. If you were making a film or anything like that you'd probably not have any problems (since films are considered "art"), which is why I suppose Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade didn't experience any trouble, but the game based on it... Well, it gets rather surreal [dorkly.com]. So no, it's largely video games that get short shrift from Strafgesetzbuch § 86a, but arguably even use of crossed-out swastikas has gotten people into trouble, even though that clearly falls under several of the rubrics in subsection (3).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:13AM (4 children)
In the U.S., we've got guns.
If the "authorities" tried to pull that shit on us, we'd defend our Universe-given rights, which existed before government and supposed to be protected by government, not restricted by government.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday November 04 2017, @11:41AM (3 children)
Really now? What about all the other unconstitutional nonsense the government is doing? The NSA is conducting unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace, the TSA is unconstitutionally searching everyone who tries to get on a plane, cops routinely use unconstitutional asset forfeiture to steal people's property without due process, we're fighting in countless wars that Congress did not declare, the war on drugs is unconstitutional on a federal level and deeply unethical no matter what, and so on. Why not blow these authoritarian cretins' brains out? That just doesn't seem to happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:22PM (1 child)
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because fuckin commies should die.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because fuckin commies should die.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because fuckin globalists should die.
Then they came for me—
and I let my fuckin AR speak for me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @02:00AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @06:20PM
yes. it doesn't matter what weapons we have if we're so fucking brainwashed we won't use them.