To create your free account, please enter your email address and password below. Please ensure your email is correct as you will recieve a validation email before you can login.
To log in to your account, please enter your email address and password below:
To reset your password, please enter your email address below and we will send you a link to reset it.
Keith Vaz questions release of Modern Warfare 2 as other MPs show strong support...
At a parliamentary question session for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Keith Vaz Labour MP for Leicester East raised his concerns surrounding the impending launch of Activision-Blizzard's Modern Warfare 2.
"Are you aware that at midnight tonight a new and violent video game called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is to be released?" Vaz asked the house, having earlier expressed concerns in The Daily Mail.
"Content suitable for adults should be labelled as such and sold as such that it should be an offence to sell this content to children. That's the case under current law, it will be the case under the law when it changes with the Digital Economy bill," Sion Simon, Minister for Creative Industries, told the house.
"The game that the young gentleman refers to is a certificate 18 game, it should not be sold to children and it's the government's job to make sure that adults, clearly labelled, can get what adults should be able to and that children are not in danger of being subjected to adult content."
Tom Watson, Labour MP for West Bromwich East, used Vaz's question to demand it shows support to the UK video games industry and not to propagate moral panic.
"I've seen the content in this video game, it is unpleasant though no worse then in any films or books," Watson said. "It carries a content warning, it is an 18+ game and carries a BBFC 18+ rating as well."
"Does the minister agree that it would be better for members of this house to support the many thousands of game designers and coders and the many millions of game users, rather than collaborate with The Daily Mail to create moral panic over the use of video games?"
"I was in Dundee last week visiting the video games industry," Simon replied. "It is a very important industry in which we have a national competitive advantage in this country, which it's important that all members of this house and the government continue to support."
If you wish to link to this article, here's a permalink to this page:
TVG Store - Finding you the cheapest price for:
Modern Warfare 2
Game Information
Available On:
PC, 360, PS3
| Release Date: | Players: |
|---|---|
| Out Now | |
| Publisher: | Genre: |
| Activision Blizzard | FPS |
| Developer: | PEGi Rating: |
| Infinity Ward |
Awards won:
Reviews & Ratings
Related Links
TVG is not responsible for the content on the following links:
If you have a related link for this game please click here to add your link to this page.
Stay up-to-date with all the latest information on Modern Warfare 2 by subscribing to this RSS Feed.
Click here to Subscribe to this RSS FeedFeatured Articles
Assassin's Creed II Review
Ezio brings redemption to Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed with a sequel that goes beyond expectations...
Just Cause 2 - Hands On Preview
Rico Rodriguez is back, causing carnage and out to track down his former mentor...
Forza 3 - Where Videogames & Reality Collide Feature
TVG finds out just how close Forza 3 is to the real McCoy at a Silverstone track day...
Modern Warfare 2 Review
TVG finds out whether Infinity Ward's latest FPS lives up to its monumental hype...
Video Games Discussions
OH MY F*CKING GUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT TO GET THIS GAME!!!!
By Anon (last comment 1 hour ago)
If you're on about the fake, rumoured, leaked list, frikkin months ago. It's FAKE.
By SegaBoy (last comment 5 hours ago)
GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
What do you mean? We don't tolerate homophobic comments here Skipp - you have been warned.
By SegaBoy (last comment 9 hours ago)
The Legend of Zelda (unannounced)
hmm this looks like it will b a non cell-shaded game (just stating the obvious) and think that since...
By Anon (last comment 19 hours ago)
Got it today, it really is a big bloody improvement! YAYs! ;) ~funkyellowmonkey(ps3 i)~
By Anon (last comment 1 day ago)
Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Was entered as March 9th 2009 instead of 2010. Just t...
By SegaBoy (last comment 1 day ago)
This game has crashed 65 times in the week that I've had it - I counted the crash dumps. And no, it'...
By Anon (last comment 1 day ago)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
I'm sure the KOTOR fanatics on here will be able to help you - head over to The Old Republic board a...
By SegaBoy (last comment 1 day ago)
Comment
Sign Up and Post with a Profile
Join TVG for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member. You can still post anonymously.
Respect Other Members
Please respect other users, post wisely and avoid flaming... Terms & Conditions
Added:Fri 20th Nov 2009 17:11, Post No: 349
If you're on about the fake, rumoured, leaked list, frikkin months ago. It's FAKE.
Added:Fri 20th Nov 2009 16:10, Post No: 348
umm allot of the stuff above is way wrong how long ago did they write this'
Added:Fri 20th Nov 2009 15:56, Post No: 347
Goddang your all a bucnh of panzies. This always happens Consoles and PCs are both great things. So stop P.m.sing about it.
Girls.
Added:Thu 19th Nov 2009 13:50, Post No: 346
PS3s and 360s do not run on Pentium 4 processors. Good lord.
Added:Thu 19th Nov 2009 10:29, Post No: 345
WOW BET YOU FEEL LIKE A [#@!?] NOW EAH
Added:Thu 19th Nov 2009 05:55, Post No: 344
and anom 342, iw ant to know where u get ur games from lol and in my opinion, games on the PC are awful...well, most anyway, online ALWAYS lags (especialy with shooters) dno if thats just me like lol, and the graphics can never be very good on a typical computer which means you have to buy a monolith sized computer.
consoles were designed to play agmes, PC's wernt, they were designed at first for communication, and now for doing work and accessing the internet, thats where they should stay in my opinion. the only games i get for PC is RTS games cause they are awful on consoles (halo wars and universe at war are good examples)
and console stuff being out of date, im sorry but what computer uses blu-ray? somehow i think the PS3 had an advantage over the computer then...ooo lord, i praised the PS3 o.O christ its early lol
Added:Thu 19th Nov 2009 05:47, Post No: 343
i dont think its pointless, although the ending does give way for another modern warfare lol, this should be fun =P
Added:Thu 19th Nov 2009 00:39, Post No: 342
Anonymous who posted Tues 17th 23:08 your talking directly out of your arse.
PC's are in no way becoming like a Dreamcast. Have you ever heard of World of Warcraft ? Have you heard of PhysX?Consoles can in no way keep up with things like this. Yes you do need to pay out for a good PC but what you seem to overlook is that PC games cost about £15 -£20 less than console games.
Any game that runs both on console and on PC is 99% of the time better on PC. Graphics wise and they often have more content. A good example being Assassins Creed or more recently Dragon Age.
Consoles run on hardware that is a long way out of date. And dont forget PS3's and 360 run off three Pentium 4 processors. Sound familiar? thats right. PC hardware you moron.
Go buy yourself a clue.
Added:Wed 18th Nov 2009 13:37, Post No: 341
shut up anonymous u [#@!?]
Added:Tue 17th Nov 2009 23:08, Post No: 340
lol no 2 8800 gts cards arnt as powerfull as 2 ps3's youve been taking too many drugs for far too long seriously anyone stupid enough to think pc's are where it started are just idiots (sure you pc builders were playing games like sonic or mario while consoles have been around since the 70's), so carry on saying pc's are where it started cause it diddnt END OF
main stream 3d gaming on pc's diddnt realy start till the late 90's sure you had doom but consoles soon cought up so no matter how much pc gamers claim the pc to be better consoles are better overall as they present better value over time compare that to a pc that you constantly have to upgrade like when vista came out and you had to get a DX10 gfx card now you need a DX11 card (unfortunatly there was hardly any games that actually utilised DX10 features most games were and still are DX9c based so what makes you think there all going to utilise DX11).
it must be great being a pc nerd but to be honest your argument realy is quite stale and the only ones who realy care are other pc gamers who know the truth that soon pc games will soon be like the dreamcast games few and far between (mainly fan made games)