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<font face="verdana" color="black"> At this moment in time, as I'm sure you know, NATO forces are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban are an armed force of terrorists that commit atrocities daily. They kill civilians almost for sport. They are waging a guerilla war against UK and USA forces. Bomb disposal teams are in a living hell, IED's are practically everywhere. Around 7,500 IED's were used in 2009 in Afghanistan.

United Kingdom Defence Secretary Liam Fox:


Medal Of Honor takes place in Helmand Province. This is the 'hot-point' of the Taliban. However, they can't bomb it since civilians are there as well. The war is tough and difficult. The people in the land are in terror of the Taliban and are murdered and abused by them. In Medal Of Honor Multiplayer (unsure about Single Player) you may play as the Taliban. This has caused outrage in the United Kingdom and some gamers living in Afghanistan and neighbouring countries have felt physically sick and couldn't move due to disgust after seeing the characters on screen. The Game is likely to be banned in the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom Defence Secretary Liam Fox:


Personally, I'll probably buy the game (if I can), however, I do see these points and while I believe that video games shouldn't be considered in terms of morality as reality I do understand and I'll probably only be slightly uncomfortable about killing United Kingdom Soldiers. However, in previous hit games such as the Call Of Duty series, you've been able to kill United States soldiers. These games haven't been banned in the USA.

To tell the truth, I hope that Medal Of Honor won't be banned in the UK. It's one of the biggest and greatest game series of all time and I'm excited that it's making a comeback. The United States Army is working directly with it, from a professional point of view it's had the best trailers for a video game yet. However, the Defence Secretary will have a lot of leeway and it's definitely possible that UK gamers won't see the game hit their shelves.

Compare and Contrast:
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Taliban forces in reality.

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Taliban forces in-game.

EA's response to the matter:


What do you think?

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If they did I wouldn't complain all that much. Some of my good friends woudn't be able to play with me, but atleast I wouldn't have to worry about the 12 year old brits...

Thanks, i'm not quite a 12 year old brit but you know...

I'll buy it off eBay!

i think it would be pointless banning it, i mean mw2 wasnt ban.

I hate do-gooders

Even though it's not funny. Kids are going to be playing on the side of their fathers murderer, and that's funny?

if your dad or brother was killed would you want to play a game in which you are the person killing your dad or brother ?

This isn't true. All UK retailers have said they will stock the game nevertheless.

You'd be surprised bro, people aren't taking something to seriously unless it is serious, their are many other 'enemy' groups all around the world, but the taliban, they are the craziest of them all, they are more than an extremest group, now, though i dont really care at all, i i can tell you that people who are effected by this extremest group will be offended in a lot of different ways, how would you feel if their was an american extremist group who killed someone in ur family, and then someone made a video game showing it back to you? Not so good i imagine, i say this with all do respect And like Knight said, they do this almost as a sport, imaging that? A sport of killing your own people? Thats really messed up. Soooo you know... lol

All together you get to kill and see americans, British, German, Japanese to name a few in the cod games, Yet there world wide.
Why should this be diffrent?
Yes i am british (tech a scot...) but i dont care, its a bunch of bloody pixels n videogame characters, So?

EDIT: ^^Disagree, Nazis where the worst, more then a billion deaths in WW1 and WW2 probably, But thats my opinion.