If yu don’t want to know about a certain level of a certain top-selling console game and it’s effect on my gameplay, then please go to another post (there goes my audience).

Okay, the rest of you people, and including X-Box 360 players, listen up. I’m talking about the multi-selling game Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Last week I finally decided to buy the game at the reduced price (I was never going to buy it at the full price anyway, that’s why I’m not keeping up with what the rest are playing).

Admittedly there is a warning at the beginning of the game that a level in said game may be offensive, and whether you want to play it. I said “Sir, yes Sir! Of course I do, Sir!”. Having heard something about it, but only snippets. I also hadn’t read the Wiki page.

What I didn’t know is that this mission (or level) comes early on in the game, and it allows you, basically, to kill Russian civilians as part of an undercover operation. I suppose it’s how you react to it that matters. I chose to just follow the main character in the level rather than be involved in the shooting. I’m wondering whether any other gamers had done that while playing the level. The sound and visual effects are a bit, well, strange, with screaming civilians being shot all over the airport. I suppose the reason why the level was included was to give you that “crisis of conscience”  (okay what would you do in this situation?). Once that level is finshed with, the gameplay continues apace.

But that bit of the gameplay did take me a bit by surprise.