Russia Threatens Modern Warfare 2 Ban, Game Yanked From Shelves

So I guess this is where Russia draws the line on how they want their country to be viewed in video games.

Apparently the thematic content of the controversial "No Russian" level in which players must choose whether to fire on innocent civilians in a Moscow airport managed to escape broad public notice before launch. It's not clear whether the threatened governmental ban came about because of the level's play mechanics (the compulsion to shoot and terrorize innocent civilians) or the fact that you play a CIA agent pretending to be a Russian ultranationalist pretending to be an American terrorist. Presumably someone's decided Russia comes off looking badly, and that America comes off looking nobler-than-thou (albeit, per the level in question, pretty single-minded about it).

Brace yourself. I suspect torrents of the game in Russia will skyrocket. 

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