US video game inspired Moscow airport attack?
MOSCOW: Russian media has pointed out the similarities between the bloody scenes depicted in a popular US video game with attack at Domodedovo International Airport, sparking a heated debate on the content of the game.
The bloody scenes of the Moscow attack are reminiscent of what can be seen in an year-old video game, the scenario of which controversially involves a character urged to kill civilians in an imaginary Russian airport, a TV channel said. The blast at Domodedovo Airport has sparked hot debate on the stuff of a popular American video game 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2', sold worldwide.
" Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become a shocking reality," English language Russia Today TV noted. Earlier last year several Duma members had asked the ban on the video game in Russia and in just a few months, its sales surpassed $1 billion worldwide.
In the mission dubbed "No Russian" the player goes on a terrorist rampage, helping to massacre civilians in a fictitious Moscow airport. It may have seemed too tragic ever to come true. But far-fetched it is not, for the events at Domodedovo International Airport are very real indeed.
Thirty-five people have been killed, and over 180 injured in what investigators believe was a terrorist attack committed by a suicide bomber inside the international arrivals of Russia's busiest airport. As for the video game scenario, it appears a lot more people have been involved in the violence.
With so many downloading, watching, and playing this game, you have to consider this bloodbath would ever-so-closely resemble reality. "Indeed it is a trouble to look at the game and reality. The issue is we need to know if terrorists or extremists are using these videos or games to basically apply the model," Walid Phares, Director of Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, said.
The bloody scenes of the Moscow attack are reminiscent of what can be seen in an year-old video game, the scenario of which controversially involves a character urged to kill civilians in an imaginary Russian airport, a TV channel said. The blast at Domodedovo Airport has sparked hot debate on the stuff of a popular American video game 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2', sold worldwide.
" Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become a shocking reality," English language Russia Today TV noted. Earlier last year several Duma members had asked the ban on the video game in Russia and in just a few months, its sales surpassed $1 billion worldwide.
In the mission dubbed "No Russian" the player goes on a terrorist rampage, helping to massacre civilians in a fictitious Moscow airport. It may have seemed too tragic ever to come true. But far-fetched it is not, for the events at Domodedovo International Airport are very real indeed.
Thirty-five people have been killed, and over 180 injured in what investigators believe was a terrorist attack committed by a suicide bomber inside the international arrivals of Russia's busiest airport. As for the video game scenario, it appears a lot more people have been involved in the violence.
With so many downloading, watching, and playing this game, you have to consider this bloodbath would ever-so-closely resemble reality. "Indeed it is a trouble to look at the game and reality. The issue is we need to know if terrorists or extremists are using these videos or games to basically apply the model," Walid Phares, Director of Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, said.
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